The Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron has admitted he clashes with Rachael Kirkconnell and whether his relationship with Matt James is different now.
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Matt, who starred on The Bachelor's 25th season in 2021, said on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen back in May that his girlfriend Rachel and longtime best friend Tyler have a "love-hate relationship."
And Tyler apparently agrees with that assessment.
"There's love?" Tyler asked E! News in a recent interview. "I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding."
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After laughing and trying to compose his thoughts, Tyler continued, "Rachael. Rachael is great and she makes Matt happy and they're happy. And it's fun to see them do their thing, and they're always traveling and doing stuff."
But Tyler questioned, "Do we have a love-hate relationship? I think it's just we have two strong opinions and the way we see things."
"We sometimes clash," Tyler confessed. "But at the end of the day, we're all cool and it is what it is."
When asked if he and Matt are still as close as they were before, Tyler somewhat unconvincingly replied, "Yeah, yeah."
"It's just Matt has been busy; I'm busy," the Season 15 The Bachelorette alum explained of his best friend, whom he had met at college when they both attended Wake Forest University.
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"You get in a relationship and that's what happens, you know? It's all part of maturing and growing up and focusing on yourself and your careers and your relationships."
Tyler is also currently dating someone, model Paige Lorenze.
The couple was photographed kissing while strolling through the streets of New York City on July 17.
A source told Us Weekly earlier this month that Tyler and Paige had begun dating and it's "still new."
"They are keeping it on the down-low," the source claimed.
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The New York Post's Page Six also recently reported that Tyler and Paige are "newly dating."
"They're spending time together whenever they can," an insider said. "It's not a full-blown, serious relationship because they're often in different cities, but they're having fun with it."
A second insider also insisted that Paige and the former Florida general contractor are "seeing each other and not just hooking up."
Tyler's new romance comes about one year after his split from model Camila Kendra.
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Tyler was allegedly dumped by Camila in August 2021 after eight months of dating.
Camila appeared to break up with Tyler shortly after he publicly announced that he was "very in love" with her.
"Things were going well until they weren't," a source told Us last summer. "Friends were surprised things ended so quickly."
Prior to Camila, Tyler dated supermodel Gigi Hadid and finished Hannah Brown's The Bachelorette season in second place in 2019.
Tyler is currently hosting a new radio show, "Everybody But Me," on the AMP app in which he talks about singledom with callers and his childhood friends from Jupiter, FL.
For Matt's part, he selected Rachael, a model from Cumming, GA, as his winner on The Bachelor last year.
Matt and Rachael briefly split in February 2021 during Rachael's memorable racism controversy -- which included former The Bachelor host Chris Harrison and ABC agreeing to part ways -- but the couple reconciled in April 2021 and have been inseparable ever since.
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Matt and Rachael recently traveled to Greece and Italy together, and they've made stops all across the United States -- including Louisiana, California and Pennsylvania.
Fans have been wondering when Rachael and Matt will get engaged, and Rachael told Us earlier this month, "The only timeline I give him is I was like, 'I gotta have kids before, you know, I can't have kids.' So keep that in mind."
Rachael and Matt claim to agree on how it's important to enjoy dating each other, without worrying about the expectations other people have for their relationship.
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"I feel like with everything we go through and whatnot, I feel like it's pretty crucial to just have fun with one another no matter where we're at or what we're doing," Rachael shared. "We got to make the most of everything."
And Matt told the Los Angeles Times in June, "We're one of the only couples from that franchise still going strong. The reason is we're going at things at our own pace. We're not playing games that a lot of people play just to stay in that circle."
Matt said on the May episode of Watch What Happens Live that he had a feeling Rachael was The One when they met on the very first night of filming The Bachelor in late 2020.
"When I met everybody that first night, [our] interaction was the most genuine," Matt said, according to People. "I was looking for that genuine connection and just realness and she exuded it. And there it is."
Matt also reportedly wrote in his book, First Impressions: Off Screen Conversations with a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness, that he wanted to spend all of his time with Rachael while taping the show.
"In the beginning, she cut through the polished front I'd honed and into my nerdy side," Matt wrote of Rachael.
"We debated who was the bigger fan of How to Train Your Dragon and Marvel movies. I observed her empathy from afar, noticed how her kindness extended beyond our time alone and to everyone else she encountered."
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