Adding new fuel to the rumors that The Bachelor: Paris couple Travis Stork and Sarah Stone have already ended their romantic relationship, the couple's hometown Nashville newspaper is reporting that although he is publicly insisting that they are "just friends," Sarah may have recently started dating Matt Lauderdale, the roommate and business partner of NFL Tennessee Titans football team player Drew Bennett.
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However according to The Tennessean, those who know them and have seen them around town lately say the pair has looked "very much like a couple" during several recent public appearances.
The two have reportedly been spotted around town together on at least three separate occasions in the last eight days, including a post-finale Tuesday night appearance at a Green Hills neighborhood pub in which other patrons saw the pair "touching, hugging, flirting and looking very much like a couple."
In addition to their Tuesday night appearance, the pair also spent the evening together on Friday, dining together at Sperry's, a restaurant in the city's Belle Meade area, after which they attended a private post-Kid Rock concert party together. And although they arrived separately for the event, two were also seen spending "quite a bit of time talking together" at a Nashville Lifestyles magazine "Singles in the City" party held the previous Tuesday evening.
The Bachelor: Paris couple Travis Stork and Sarah Stone in already happier times??? See more The Bachelor: Paris finale pictures in our The Bachelor: Paris finale photo gallery (photo credit ABC/Craig Sjodin.) |
Meanwhile, both Travis and Sarah continued their self-imposed post-finale media blackout on Wednesday, with Sarah not returning The Tennessean's calls about the nature of her relationship with Matt. Neither Travis or Sarah have made any announcement of when they plan to make themselves available for media interviews, and numerous unsubstantiated rumors have begun circulating in the interim, including copies of two unauthenticated Internet emails that claim Travis' Fort Worth-based sister and brother-in-law have told friends that although Travis and Sarah still remain close friends, they are no longer seeing each other romantically.
Although completely unverified, one of the messages -- allegedly a copy of a message that Travis' brother-in-law (in what, if true, would be a pretty foolish move) emailed to his friends on Tuesday, before The Tennessean published today's report -- mentioned that "she might even be dating one of the Tennessee Titan football players now," an apparent reference to Sarah and Matt's rumored relationship. According to the rest of the alleged email, Travis just wants his time in The Bachelor spotlight to end, will not be making any talk show appearances, now wishes he'd kept Susan Edds and Jehen Huleisy as his Final 2 women, and turned down the show's $20,000 offer to film himself and Sarah during a recent hiking outing.