{"id":268265,"date":"2019-02-25T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1018480"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:57:00","slug":"ben-higgins-recalls-romantic-first-kiss-with-girlfriend-jessica-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ben-higgins-recalls-romantic-first-kiss-with-girlfriend-jessica-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Higgins Recalls &#8220;Romantic&#8221; First Kiss With Girlfriend Jessica Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019120\/rs_600x600-190220134029-600-ben-higgins-mv-22019.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.888379204893\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.822629969419\">\n<p><strong>Ben Higgins<\/strong> and <strong>Jessica Clarke<\/strong> are dishing about their romance.<\/p>\n<p>It was just last week that the <em>Bachelor<\/em> alum and his girlfriend, a graduate of Ole Miss,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/1006216\/ben-higgins-and-girlfriend-jessica-clarke-make-their-relationship-instagram-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made their relationship Instagram official<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been selfishly keeping this girl to myself for too long!&#8221;\u00a0Ben wrote to his social media followers. &#8220;I successfully slid into her Dm&#8217;s a few months ago. I took a risk and I am glad I did. She is someone special, and I look forward to where life is going to take us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jessica is appearing on Ben and\u00a0<strong>Ashley Iaconetti<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0iHeartRadio &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/139-the-ben-and-ashley-28165481\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Almost Famous<\/a>&#8221; podcast for the first time this week,\u00a0revealing more details about her romance with the reality star.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>In a sneak peek of the episode, premiering tonight, Ben and Jessica\u00a0share the story of their first kiss.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how it came about, Jessica tells Ben, &#8220;As soon as you saw me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I walked outside and just laid it, yeah,&#8221; Ben says, which Ashley calls &#8220;romantic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20\">\n<p>&#8220;I think it was, wasn&#8217;t it romantic?&#8221; Ben asks Jessica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I mean, I thought it was romantic,&#8221;\u00a0Jessica replies, adding that she wondered whether to make a joke or just say &#8220;hi&#8221; when she saw Ben. &#8220;And then you just kissed me, so I didn&#8217;t have to do either of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So how does the couple stay connected when they&#8217;re living in different cities? FaceTime!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We FaceTime every day probably,&#8221; Jessica shares on the podcast episode.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the full podcast episode with Jessica, premiering\u00a0tonight at 8 p.m. PST.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1018480\/ben-higgins-recalls-romantic-first-kiss-with-girlfriend-jessica-clarke?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Higgins and Jessica Clarke are dishing about their romance. It was just last week that the Bachelor alum and his girlfriend, a graduate of Ole Miss,\u00a0made their relationship Instagram official. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been selfishly keeping this girl to myself for too long!&#8221;\u00a0Ben wrote to his social media followers. &#8220;I successfully slid into her Dm&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-14 20:04:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}