{"id":279864,"date":"2019-09-16T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1073613"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:35:00","slug":"nick-viall-and-rachel-bilson-spark-romance-rumors-after-getting-flirty-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nick-viall-and-rachel-bilson-spark-romance-rumors-after-getting-flirty-on-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Viall and Rachel Bilson Spark Romance Rumors After Getting Flirty on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019816\/rs_1024x759-190916102510-1024x759-nick-rachel-gj-9-16-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Nick Viall, Rachel Bilson\" alt=\"Nick Viall, Rachel Bilson\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for Turner Sports, Steve Granitz\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.405375139978\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.356103023516\">\n<p>It looks like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nick_viall\">Nick Viall<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s journey to find love isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bachelor<\/em> alum has sparked romance rumors with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rachel_bilson\">Rachel Bilson<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While neither star has commented on&nbsp;a&nbsp;relationship status, social media sleuths have picked up on a few potential clues\u2014some of which date back to earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July, Viall interviewed Bilson for an episode of his podcast <em>The Viall Files<\/em>. During the episode, the season 21 star admitted he &#8220;professionally&#8221; slid into <em>The O.C.<\/em> alumna&#8217;s DMs and invited her to be on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that Rachel was a big <em>Bachelor<\/em> fan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a fan of Rachel for some time. I had noticed throughout, maybe the past couple of years, there was one time I think you might have commented on my Instagram and I noticed it. I was like, &#8216;[Gasp!] Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You didn&#8217;t slide into my DMs then,&#8221; she replied. &nbsp;&#8220;You could have told me you were excited then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"69\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>To promote the episode, both celebs posted pictures from the interview on their respective social media channels. Viall, for instance, shared a picture of the two chatting and captioned it &#8220;Will we choose to forgo our individual rooms\u2026&#8221; Bilson then added her own response in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He slid into her\u2026.dms,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;#SheAccepted.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The actress also posted an image of herself looking surprised and captioned it, &#8220;When he tells you he&#8217;s actually been on the bachelor shows 4 times&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Viall then added, &#8220;And you call yourself a <em>Bach<\/em> fan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the flirty exchanges didn&#8217;t end there. In August, Bilson posted a picture of herself rocking a red dress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cute dress,&#8221; Viall replied.<\/p>\n<p>The reality TV star also wrote &#8220;nice foliage&#8221; underneath Bilson&#8217;s photo of a plant and wrote &#8220;nice mountains&#8221; underneath a photo of the actress&nbsp;sitting on a rock.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.79802955665\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.76354679803\">\n<p>In addition, Bilson joked Viall &#8220;took the plunge..er&#8221; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2NefRJnpnS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watching<\/a> his Charmin ad with <strong>Becca Tilley<\/strong> and poked a little fun at his contestant style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sweet cuffs,&#8221; she wrote in the comments section underneath a photo from his <em>Bachelor<\/em> days.<\/p>\n<p>Fans also noticed she liked a photo of Viall that showed him staring off into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Checking her out knowing she&#8217;s with me,&#8221; he captioned the cryptic post.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.898305084746\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.604519774011\">\n<p>Then again, Bilson may have her eyes set on another <em>Bachelor<\/em> contestant. Back in July, she noted she&#8217;s &#8220;team Tyler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn&#8217;t be the first time Viall has been romantically linked to a celebrity. In 2018, there were rumors that he&nbsp;dated&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/january_jones\">January Jones<\/a><\/strong>. However, she soon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/915179\/january-jones-addresses-nick-viall-dating-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut down the speculation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say, Rachel? Do you accept Nick&#8217;s rose?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073613\/nick-viall-and-rachel-bilson-spark-romance-rumors-after-getting-flirty-on-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>Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for Turner Sports, Steve Granitz\/WireImage It looks like Nick Viall&#8216;s journey to find love isn&#8217;t over yet. The Bachelor alum has sparked romance rumors with Rachel Bilson.&nbsp; While neither star has commented on&nbsp;a&nbsp;relationship status, social media sleuths have picked up on a few potential clues\u2014some of which date back to earlier this [&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":["post-279864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 05:16:43","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\/279864","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=279864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}