{"id":283899,"date":"2019-11-20T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1095381"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:36:12","slug":"nick-viall-says-he-hung-out-with-rachel-bilson-amid-relationship-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nick-viall-says-he-hung-out-with-rachel-bilson-amid-relationship-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Viall Says He &#8220;Hung Out&#8221; With Rachel Bilson Amid Relationship Speculation"},"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<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.773333333333\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.946666666667\">\n<p>The most dramatic <em>Bachelor<\/em> confession in history goes to\u2026<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nick_viall\">Nick Viall<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Months after the former <em>Bachelor<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073613\/nick-viall-and-rachel-bilson-spark-romance-rumors-after-getting-flirty-on-instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked romance rumors<\/a> with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rachel_bilson\">Rachel Bilson<\/a><\/strong>, Viall finally opened about his rumored love interest. On Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1087939\/why-nick-viall-believes-a-civil-war-is-brewing-in-bachelor-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bachelor Nation star<\/a> sat down with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brad_goreski\">Brad Goreski<\/a><\/strong> for an episode of his podcast &#8220;Brad Behavior,&#8221; where he revealed that he had dinner with <em>The O.C.<\/em> alum.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Goreski asked Viall about a now-deleted photo that he shared on his Instagram that he captioned, &#8220;Clean plate club.&#8221; Bilson&#8217;s face wasn&#8217;t pictured in the snap, but the stylist said that he was able to recognize the white asymmetrical dress that his pal had worn earlier in the day. In awe of Goreski&#8217;s detective work, Viall had no other choice but to come clean. &#8220;I was, yeah,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;We hung out, and her friends were there too\u2026a bunch of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite debunking the romance rumors earlier this month, we can&#8217;t help but think that Viall and Bilson would make an adorable couple. In fact, the <em>Hart of Dixie<\/em>&nbsp;star is quite the <em>Bachelor<\/em> fan, herself!<\/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>Back in July, Viall interviewed Bilson for an episode of his podcast &#8220;The Viall Files&#8221; and shared&nbsp;that he &#8220;professionally&#8221; slid into&nbsp;Bilson&#8217;s DMs to invite her on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that Rachel was a big&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;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<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.855072463768\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.188405797101\">\n<p>The duo then exchanged some flirty messages via Instagram, which made them seem even more like a couple.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Viall has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1092919\/nick-viall-slams-rumors-he-s-dating-demi-burnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been romantically linked<\/a> to fellow Bachelor Nation star <strong>Demi Burnett<\/strong>, but&nbsp;he insists that they&#8217;re just friends.&nbsp;&#8220;Demi is a close friend, a dear friend,&#8221; he said earlier this month. &#8220;We&#8217;ve become close and I care very much about her.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We wonder who Viall&#8217;s final rose will go to!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><i>E! News<\/i> returns weekday mornings at the beginning of 2020!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1095381\/nick-viall-says-he-hung-out-with-rachel-bilson-amid-relationship-speculation?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 The most dramatic Bachelor confession in history goes to\u2026Nick Viall! Months after the former Bachelor sparked romance rumors with Rachel Bilson, Viall finally opened about his rumored love interest. On Wednesday, the Bachelor Nation star sat down with Brad Goreski for an episode of his podcast &#8220;Brad [&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-283899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-11 06:59:05","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\/283899","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=283899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}