The Bachelorette alum Jason Tartick is remaining tight-lipped about his dating life following his split from ex-fiancee Kaitlyn Bristowe.
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Jason, 35, addressed speculation he's romantically involved with TikTok star and comedian Kat Stickler during a recent episode of the "Scrubbing In With Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad" podcast.
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"Where'd you hear those rumors?" Jason joked.
Jason admitted, "Here's what I'll say to that: I think after my last relationship, I'm in the space of keeping things a little bit more private right now."
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Jason's romance and eventual August 2023 split with Kaitlyn, 38, was highly-publicized and criticized.
"It was so public, and there's a lot that comes with that -- good and bad," Jason explained of dating in the public eye.
"And so, the whole dating aspect, which I'm relatively new to, I'm like, 'You know what? For right now, today, I'm gonna kind of keep things private,' until things become [more serious]. But right now, I'm keeping things a little private. But more to come."
Jason also avoided giving a direct answer on whether he's still single.
"I'm keeping things private. So I'll say I don't know! When I'm not keeping things private, this is the place I'll come back to, and then we'll talk about it," teased The Bachelorette Season 14 alum.
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"I'll get your advice and everything!"
Jason said he had met Kat before he interviewed her for an upcoming episode of his "Trading Secrets" podcast.
"She's a great girl! She's amazing, she's very special, yeah. She's awesome, she's great," Jason gushed of the brunette beauty, who was previously married to fellow social-media star Michael Stickler and then briefly dated an engineer named Cam Winter.
"I interviewed her in Chicago and the episode will be coming out in a few weeks or so."
As Jason spoke about Kat, he sounded bashful and excited. He even joked about how Tanya was probably reading his body language.
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Jason appeared to have totally moved on and healed from his breakup with Kaitlyn in February. At the time, he told his fans via Instagram Stories that he was thriving and feeling "truly euphoric."
Jason shared, "I can say with certainty, I have never felt better. I have put so much effort, time and work into understanding myself at the deepest levels and further understanding others."
"The liberation of knowing yourself to the core," he continued, "and then being able to see others for who they really are and why is truly euphoric."
The Bachelorette 14 alum went on to share his "biggest takeaway" from his heartbreak and recent experiences.
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"First, keep pointing the thumb at yourself and do everything in your power to hold yourself accountable," Jason wrote.
"Know exactly who you are and why. We all have experienced traumas from our first memories that impact who we are today. Lean in!" he concluded.
Another Instagram user asked Kaitlyn's ex-fiance to reveal his "No. 1 flag" when navigating the rocky waters of dating.
"I'm a logical guy but when it comes to this new world of dating, I'm all about following my intuition and gut," Jason shared.
"Reason, rational, logic allll out the window. All gut feeling and guiding intuition."
Jason, a Buffalo native who competed for Becca Kufrin's heart on The Bachelorette's fourteenth season in 2018, asked Kaitlyn out on their first date in January 2019, and their romance moved quickly.
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Jason moved from his place in Washington to live with Kaitlyn in Nashville, TN, in June 2019. The couple then adopted their two dogs together, Pinot and Ramen, and got engaged in May 2021.
Jason ultimately moved himself out of Kaitlyn's Nashville home into his new place after their breakup last summer. (Kaitlyn also subsequently moved into a new house for a fresh start after her back-to-back broken engagements to The Bachelorette 11 winner Shawn Booth and then Jason).
For Kaitlyn's part, she now appears to be dating Tayshia Adams' ex-fiancee and The Bachelorette 16 winner Zac Clark.
Kaitlyn and Zac rang in 2024 together at a party in Kaitlyn's new Nashville home, and they were recently spotted dancing together and hugging at a bar in New York City, where Zac currently resides.
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Kaitlyn has faced backlash about her apparent new romance with Zac -- including speculation she had cheated on Jason while they were still together and also broken "girl code" with Tayshia -- but the former Dancing with the Stars champion claimed on social media earlier this year that she was never unfaithful to Jason.
"Some of you [are] treating me like I murdered someone," Kaitlyn wrote in a series of posts via Instagram Stories.
"You would think by now I'd be used to the hate. I'm not. Your words hurt. Your shaming hurts. Part of me feels a little sad and honestly embarrassed for you guys because this shouldn't be how you spend Day 1 of a new year."
The Bachelor alum also noted, "But you don't even know the truth, and your HATE should actually come with consequences. I truly worry about some of your mental health. It's not OK. It's. Not."
Kaitlyn doubled down on her cheating denial in February, insisting she never emotionally cheated on Jason either.
Kaitlyn also appeared to address her relationship with Zac by writing, "I wish I could just share my truth and tell you my side. It's hard to bite my dang tongue sometimes... But you just go on and continue to have your own little made up story in your head and believe what you want to believe. Social media la la land. Good lawwwddd."
Kaitlyn proceeded to post a screenshot of her exchange with someone who wrote to Kaitlyn, "But like they don't know the truth or any backstory. It's wild... Like go volunteer. Go give blood plz."
Jason -- who has a book Talk Money to Me coming out this month -- publicly commented on Kaitlyn's new relationship in early January, and Kaitlyn admitted on her "Off the Vine" podcast she was "disappointed" in her ex-fiance for allegedly playing the victim.
For Zac's part, he got engaged to Tayshia on The Bachelorette's sixteenth season finale in 2020.
But about one year after their engagement aired on ABC, Zac and Tayshia announced their breakup in November 2021.
Tayshia is currently dating former Summer House star Luke Gulbranson.
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