Susie Evans and Justin Glaze have discovered romance within Bachelor Nation after all.
“Justin is my boyfriend. We’re dating,” Evans, 30, revealed in an interview published on Wednesday, January 24.
Evans and Glaze, 29, cultivated a friendship following their appearances on Clayton Echard and Katie Thurston’s seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Despite often appearing close in social media snapshots, they emphasized that their connection was primarily platonic, with a subtle flirtatious undertone.
In October 2023, Evans explicitly instructed Glaze to cease “messing around” about their playful banter.
“I was like, ‘Oh, this tone seems a little bit different,'” Glaze reminisced to E! News. “In the back of my head, I was like, ‘If you’re serious, I’m serious.’ That was kind of my mindset. I had always been testing the lines, and I wasn’t sure if she would go for it. So, I didn’t want to cross those boundaries.”
After a “really nice conversation,” Glaze decided to “just go for it” and expressed his feelings.
“I was like, ‘Hey listen, I don’t know where you stand on our friendship or relationship. I respect you so much, and I appreciate our friendship. But I’d be lying if I [said I] haven’t thought about if there is potential for more than a friendship just given the natural chemistry that we had as friends,'” he recalled, mentioning they shared a kiss that night.
Glaze and Evans discreetly maintained their blossoming romance for a few weeks, aiming to “protect [their] privacy” and “not put any pressure on [their] relationship.”
While Evans and Glaze were initially just friends, she was open to the prospect of dating another member of Bachelor Nation.
“I think that I would have to be interested in the person and I would wanna get to know them before ever, like, going out with them publicly. I would really wanna vet that call,” she told Us. “I would really wanna make sure that’s somebody that if there was a picture taken or something like that — not that it matters, I kind of don’t care about stuff like that — but it would be another public relationship.
So I would just really have to make sure that I, really, really like that person before I even give a first date a chance just because I think it gets complicated when people wanna talk about it.”
