{"id":269097,"date":"2019-03-10T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1022322"},"modified":"2019-03-10T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:55:42","slug":"why-artem-chigvintsev-made-a-special-cameo-on-nikki-bellas-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-artem-chigvintsev-made-a-special-cameo-on-nikki-bellas-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Artem Chigvintsev Made a Special Cameo on Nikki Bella&#8217;s Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.101769911504\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.327433628319\">\n<p>There was no side-stepping this one for&nbsp;<strong>Artem Chigvintsev<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old professional dancer appeared on <strong>Nikki<\/strong> <strong>Bella<\/strong>&#8216;s Instagram Story and Instagram Live videos on Sunday night and was surprised to learn that he would be helping her live tweet tonight&#8217;s episode of&nbsp;<em>Total Bellas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes before the episode, Nikki tweeted a video of herself <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellaTwins\/status\/1104910511412457472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explaining to the camera<\/a> that she would be active on social media during the episode and she&#8217;d be getting help from &#8220;a friend&#8221; too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that, so I guess I&#8217;m doing it,&#8221; Artem joked.<\/p>\n<p>Artem and Nikki apparently spent the day together, too. They had a &#8220;Sunday fun day&#8221; together, which she talked about in her Live video.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>&#8220;I have a special guest who had a really fun Sunday fun day with me. He&#8217;s gonna tell you to also tune in to&nbsp;<em>Total Bellas,&#8221;<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>Their Sunday fun day included non-alcoholic beer and some ramen. Nikki, however, explained that she&#8217;s &#8220;picky&#8221; about restaurant ratings and only eats at establishments that received an &#8220;A&#8221; grade. But she broke her own rule today with Artem and they went to a restaurant that had a &#8220;B&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t that mean the kitchens have rats?&#8221; she inquired.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019210\/rs_634x1024-190310190204-634-nikki-bella-artem.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Nikki Bella, Artem Chigvintsev \" alt=\"Nikki Bella, Artem Chigvintsev \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>Despite the &#8220;B,&#8221; she and Artem had a great meal and she even admitted that it was &#8220;really good.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old professional wrestler and the&nbsp;<em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> pro have been spending a decent amount of time together as of late. The two of them hung out on Saturday as well and enjoyed a leisurely lunch date together.<\/p>\n<p>A source told E! News that&nbsp;they &#8220;seemed happy and into each other&#8221; during their lunch date at Joan&#8217;s on Third in Los Angeles, where they dined on salads and &#8220;leaned in to talk&#8221; over lunch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She made goofy faces at him and used her fork to tap his nose playfully. At one point she got up and leaned across the table to kiss him,&#8221; the insider said. &#8220;When they left he wrapped his arm tightly around her and she grabbed his hand. He opened the car door for her and helped her get in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So sweet!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"52.470752089136\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.325905292479\">\n<p>The two of them recently had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1020132\/inside-nikki-bella-s-romantic-date-night-with-dancing-with-the-stars-artem-chignvintsev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">romantic date night<\/a> in Beverly Hills, too. Another source told E! News that they &#8220;sat together for several hours drinking and were smiling a lot&#8221; during their dinner date at Wally&#8217;s restaurant. Nikki reportedly &#8220;looked really happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Artem and Nikki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1001414\/nikki-bella-is-dating-dancing-with-the-stars-partner-artem-chigvintsev-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked dating rumors<\/a> earlier this year, but neither one of them has publicly commented on it. She shared with E! News in December that she was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995079\/nikki-bella-reveals-the-status-of-her-relationship-with-peter-kraus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enjoying being single<\/a>&#8221; but her dating life was &#8220;not going well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/956197\/nikki-bella-and-john-cena-break-up-again-two-months-after-reconciling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She split<\/a> from her fianc\u00e9 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_cena\">John Cena<\/a><\/strong> in July and explained to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/strong> at the end of January, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say playing the field because I&#8217;m not like that, but like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_bellas\/news\/1008564\/nikki-bella-says-it-s-embarrassing-watching-her-dates-with-artem-chigvintsev-and-peter-from-the-bachelorette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I&#8217;m having fun going on dates<\/a> with a bunch of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Artem and Nikki were first linked\u2014not romantically, but athletically\u2014back in 2017 when they were partners on season 25 of&nbsp;<em>DWTS<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We know it takes two to tango, and apparently two to tweet, too.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <em>Total Bellas<\/em> Sunday at 9 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1022322\/why-artem-chigvintsev-made-a-special-cameo-on-nikki-bella-s-instagram?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>There was no side-stepping this one for&nbsp;Artem Chigvintsev. The 36-year-old professional dancer appeared on Nikki Bella&#8216;s Instagram Story and Instagram Live videos on Sunday night and was surprised to learn that he would be helping her live tweet tonight&#8217;s episode of&nbsp;Total Bellas. Just minutes before the episode, Nikki tweeted a video of herself explaining to [&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-269097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 05:14:49","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\/269097","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=269097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}