Watch Brayden Bowers Tell His ‘BIP’ Bestie About New Girlfriend
Brayden Bowers has been keeping a huge secret from the entire world. He’s been secretly dating Bachelor Nation’s Christina Mandrell for months. Watch him tell his BIP bestie about the new girl he was dating.
Why Brayden Bowers & Christina Mandrell’s Relationship Is Unique
It’s not unheard of for Bachelor In Paradise contestants to reconnect after leaving the beach. It happened with Season 7’s Becca Kufrin and Thomas Jacobs, among others.
Bachelor Nation fans were hoping that Brayden Bowers would reconnect with Rachel Recchia after filming Season 9 together. However, he shocked Bachelor Nation fans by announcing that he was dating Bachelor Season 27 alum Christina Mandrell.
The two reportedly started talking after he left the beach single and now they’re making some big plans in their relationship.
Christina was previously married before appearing on The Bachelor. She shares a daughter, Blakely, with her ex-husband.
Watch Brayden Bowers Tell His BIP Bestie About New Girlfriend
While Brayden didn’t find love on Bachelor In Paradise, he found some lasting friendships. Despite being rivals on Charity Lawson’s season, he became close friends with Aaron Schwartzman.
On the beach in Mexico, Brayden became good friends with Olivia Lewis. At one point in the season, he gave her his rose in friendship so she wouldn’t be eliminated.
Olivia loves to keep fans guessing about whether she’s just friends or dating BIP co-star Tanner Courtad.
So, it’s only fitting that Brayden kept her guessing for weeks over the identity of his mysterious new girlfriend.
Brayden and Christina secretly recorded the Facetime call when they spilled the beans to Olivia about their relationship. Christina just posted the months-old video on her Instagram.
Only Brayden is on the video call at first, with Christina listening in from nearby. Olivia asks if she knows the person he’s dating, and Brayden confirms she does.
Then he showed her objects around the room to see if she could guess. Olivia quickly realized that the mystery woman was Christina and couldn’t hide her joy and disbelief, telling the new couple to “shut the f**k up” multiple times.
Olivia herself left a comment on the video clip. “Brayden had me guessing for a couple weeks and it was eating me alive! I’m so sorry for all the bad words 😭 I was just so excited/ surprised!!!! Love your love so so much and I am so happy for yall! You both deserve endless giggle fits and smiles and bear hugs FOREVER 🫶🏽.”
Christina’s followers couldn’t get enough of Olivia’s reaction.
- Olivia is such green flags. Love how supportive she is.
- Need this roles reversed for liv & tanner
- Now we need liv and tanner to tell you guys!
- Olivia asking the questions we are dying to know the answers to
- This is one of the wife and I’s favorite bachelor matches! Celebrate love! Also Brayden with the daughter is beyond cute.
As you can see, Bachelor Nation fans are begging for Olivia to make her rumored relationship with Tanner official.
