{"id":280213,"date":"2019-09-21T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1075411"},"modified":"2019-09-21T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T21:54:55","slug":"mike-johnson-talks-budding-demi-lovato-romance-no-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/mike-johnson-talks-budding-demi-lovato-romance-no-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson Talks Budding Demi Lovato Romance: &#8220;No Pressure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.852848101266\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25.971518987342\">\n<p><strong>Mike Johnson<\/strong>&nbsp;appears to be smitten with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/demi_lovato\">Demi Lovato<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old&nbsp;<em>Bachelorette<\/em> season 15 and <em>Bachelor in Paradise<\/em> season six star and Air Force veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073304\/demi-lovato-and-bachelorette-star-mike-johnson-are-getting-to-know-each-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently went on a date<\/a> with the 27-year-old pop singer, and the two have also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073331\/demi-lovato-shares-another-unretouched-bikini-pic-and-mike-johnson-likes-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gotten flirty on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just getting to know Demi. I think she&#8217;s absolutely fantastic and I don&#8217;t want no pressure on her, no pressure on me, we&#8217;re just trying to get to know each other,&#8221; Johnson told E! News at the&nbsp;2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday. &#8220;That&#8217;s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if there were other women around, he said, &#8220;No, it&#8217;s just Demi. That&#8217;s the only person I&#8217;m talking to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a source told E! News that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1074456\/all-the-details-on-demi-lovato-and-mike-johnson-s-budding-romance-and-instant-connection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lovato and Johnson&nbsp;&#8220;have been texting&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;since their date and are &#8220;definitely interested in each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s has always had a huge crush on Mike and once they met in person, there was an instant connection,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>The insider added that while Lovato &#8220;is not looking for anything serious right now,&#8221; she and Johnson have plans to see each other again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.847198641766\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.363327674024\">\n<p>In his interview with E! News, Johnson also talked about being snubbed as the next star of&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em>.&nbsp;<strong>Peter Weber<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1068468\/peter-weber-is-the-star-of-the-bachelor-season-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced as the new lead<\/a>. Had Johnson been chosen, he would have become the first black Bachelor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy that Peter is the Bachelor,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s really sexy when he has a 5 o&#8217;clock shadow and nothing against ABC what-so-ever. I mean, they did a wonderful job on choosing Peter for what they want and I would have loved to have been the Bachelor, but you know, my mom always told me that God has a plan for me. And so I&#8217;m happy where I&#8217;m at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-5-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019821\/rs_634x1024-190921144913-634.mike-johnson.ct.092119.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Mike Johnson, 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival\" alt=\"Mike Johnson, 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival\" data-text=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">David Becker\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>Johnson hopes to have a girlfriend by next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to&nbsp;be in love,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1075411\/mike-johnson-talks-budding-demi-lovato-romance-no-pressure?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>Mike Johnson&nbsp;appears to be smitten with&nbsp;Demi Lovato! The 31-year-old&nbsp;Bachelorette season 15 and Bachelor in Paradise season six star and Air Force veteran recently went on a date with the 27-year-old pop singer, and the two have also recently gotten flirty on Instagram. &#8220;I&#8217;m just getting to know Demi. I think she&#8217;s absolutely fantastic and I [&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-280213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-21 17:57:29","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\/280213","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=280213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}