Dancing with the Stars pro Rylee Arnold has gone public with her new boyfriend, college football player Walker Lyons.
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The pro dancer and choreographer captioned her carousel, "Is this a hard launch??"
Rylee also added a few emojis to her post -- including a red heart and the fire symbol.
In one of the pictures, Rylee smiled as she watched the football game, and in another, she gazed adoringly at her man in uniform while standing on the football field.
Walker also had his arm wrapped tightly around the blonde beauty post-game.
Rylee and Walker also posed for photos with Rylee's sister Brynley Arnold and Brynley's husband Donny McGinnis.
Walker also made his relationship with Rylee Instagram official by posting a photo of himself snuggling up to the Dancing with the Stars pro via Instagram Stories.
Earlier this month, Rylee -- who is currently partnered with Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik on Dancing with the Stars' 33rd season -- had teased on TikTok that she was dating someone new.
"Okay friends, get ready with me for rehearsal while I debrief the date I went on a couple nights ago," Rylee said in her video.
"Fun fact, we actually hung out last night as well."
For their first date, Rylee and Walker apparently got food and walked around Santa Monica in CA, which Rylee called "so fun." And then their second date was "a little bit more spontaneous," according to the dancer.
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"He was so easy to talk to," Rylee gushed in her TikTok upload.
"We have so many similarities which was so fun to talk about. He is so sweet and humble and just all the amazing qualities. So I'm really curious to see how this all pans out."
Rylee added that the man she was seeing "has a really busy schedule" -- just like she does -- but that they were making time for each other.
"Luckily, our schedules kind of work out together," she explained. "We're both busy and free at the same time of the week. It makes things kind of nice."
Rylee was last romantically linked to reality TV star Harry Jowsey.
When the pair were partnered together on Dancing with the Stars' 32nd season last year, rumors swirled that they were dating, mainly due to their apparent chemistry in the ballroom and also behind the scenes off-camera.
The Heartbreak Island alum and Rylee were also spotted holding hands in October 2023 after a Tate McRae concert in Los Angeles.
But Harry played coy about their relationship at the time.
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Rylee noted, "Yes," before Harry hinted something was going on between them by chiming in with, "[We want to] keep the mystery in it."
Harry, however, shocked fans in May 2024 when he revealed that he actually had a secret girlfriend -- and was definitely not dating Rylee -- during their time on Dancing with the Stars.
"I'm sorry if this answer breaks some hearts, but I'm here to confirm once and for all, Rylee and I have never been [in] any type of relationship," Harry said on his "Boyfriend Material" podcast, according to Us Weekly.
"We never leaned into it. We never were putting on an act or anything like that. It was just organic... What you saw is kind of how it was. That was just amazing love and amazing friendship, and just an amazing bond that we had together."
Harry's girlfriend at the time was Jessica Vestal, whom he fell for while filming Perfect Match's second season, which premiered in June.
Jessica revealed on "The Viall Files" in July that she and Harry broke up one day after he was spotted holding hands with Rylee at the Tate McRae concert.
"I was so mad, I was sad, but I was like, 'Whatever,'" Jessica reportedly recalled. "And [their] TikToks [together] bothered me because I just made a TikTok."
Jessica said she understood that Harry and Rylee were trying to play up romance rumors for attention and votes, but at the same time, they pressed a button with her.
"If you want to do that, it's not respectful to me," Jessica noted. "Even if no one else besides you and I know we're together."
But Jessica insisted that Rylee was not at fault for the demise of her relationship with Harry -- and that no one should send any hate to the Dancing with the Stars pro.
"She might not have even known if she was in a relationship [and] she was doing her job," the Love Is Blind alum stated. "It was an incredible first season for both of them."
Harry also gushed about Rylee while Dancing with the Stars was airing, which allowed fans to think he had a crush on her.
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"[She] brings me up when I'm feeling a little bit flat," Harry shared at the time, "or in my head about things, and knows when to sit me down and talk me out of whatever hump I'm in."
Harry continued, "I feel like everyone needs that in a person in their life. She's everything you could ever dream of."
And Rylee called Harry, in turn, "the sweetest person you'll ever meet" as well as "so fun to be around."
But in late October 2023, Harry dubbed the dating rumors "unfair," telling Us, "It's [Rylee's] first season. We should focus on choreography and our dancing and not whether we're together or not. It's not a dating show, it's a dancing show."
Dancing with the Stars' 32nd season marked Rylee's first time as a Dancing with the Stars pro, following in the footsteps of her older sister Lindsay Arnold, a former mirrorball trophy champion.
Although Rylee and Harry dodged questions about their alleged romance during the season, Dancing with the Stars co-host Julianne Hough seemingly confirmed their relationship status in mid-October 2023 when she called the pair "lovebirds" during one of the episodes.
And once Rylee and Harry were eliminated from Dancing with the Stars on "Taylor Swift Night" in November 2023, Rylee gushed, "Harry was truly the best partner to have and I wouldn't have wanted to be paired with anyone else this season."
"He was so kind and genuine and fun and just made the whole experience even more that it should have been. I got so lucky to be paired with him and to have met him," she added.
Harry then spent Thanksgiving 2023 with Rylee and her family, whom he called very supportive and kind.
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Ahead of the family meal, Harry had gifted Rylee a $15,000 Van Cleef bracelet as a "thank you" for training him and being his partner on the show.
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