{"id":288367,"date":"2020-02-18T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1123960"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:00:51","slug":"whats-really-going-on-between-bachelor-nations-chris-bukowski-and-katrina-badowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/whats-really-going-on-between-bachelor-nations-chris-bukowski-and-katrina-badowski\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Really Going on Between Bachelor Nation&#8217;s Chris Bukowski and Katrina Badowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020118\/rs_600x600-200218104205-600.Chris-Bukowski-Katrina-Badowski.ct.021820.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=\"43.664161392405\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.749208860759\">\n<p>New couple alert in Bachelor Nation? Not so fast!<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/valentines_day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a>, <em>Bachelor in Paradise<\/em> alum <strong>Chris Bukowski<\/strong> was spotted enjoying dinner in Chicago with <em>The Bachelor<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Katrina Badowski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, an onlooker told us it was just the two of them enjoying dinner at Bandit. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t any obvious PDA outside of the typical conversation, jokes and laughing,&#8221; an eyewitness shared. But before the rumors really start that these two are in a romantic relationship, a source assures us that these two are not dating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve hung out before. They get along and really like each other but they&#8217;re not a couple,&#8221; our source shared with E! News exclusively. &#8220;They are friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides, it&#8217;s only been about two months since news broke that Chris and <strong>Katie Morton<\/strong> had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1101234\/bachelor-in-paradise-s-chris-bukowski-and-katie-morton-break-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called off their engagement <\/a>after a romantic <em>Bachelor in Paradise<\/em> proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve reached a point in our story where we agree it&#8217;s best to go our separate ways. We have chosen to love and respect each other as friends because that&#8217;s the base of our relationship, and it&#8217;s what is most natural for us,&#8221; Chris said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B55XHEhpzA5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> post. &#8220;We are incredibly thankful for the support we&#8217;ve received from our family, friends and everyone who supported us throughout our journey\u2014from <em>Paradise<\/em> to this moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>The statement continued, &#8220;We are grateful for everything that we&#8217;ve learned in this chapter, and are hopeful for what is to come in life and in love for both of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.326785714286\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.582142857143\">\n<p>Katie would also address the split during an appearance on iHeartRadio&#8217;s <em>Help! I Suck at Dating<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/658-help-i-suck-at-dating-with-28480723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a>. &#8220;We had some good times when we would see each other, but it was few and far between,&#8221; she told co-hosts <strong>Dean Unglert<\/strong> and <strong>Jared Haibon<\/strong>. &#8220;I think it comes down to effort on both ends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Katrina, fans may recognize her from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/peter_weber\">Peter Weber<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s season of <em>The Bachelor<\/em> that remains on the air today.<\/p>\n<p>The former NBA dancer made a memorable first impression with Peter after she made a joke about her hairless cat. She was ultimately sent home on the first night.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.195710455764\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.8659517426273\">\n<p>Over the weekend, she participated in NBA All-Star Weekend by dancing at the big game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This weekend I laughed, I cried, and I got another chance to dance,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B8rXUYfpjBu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> on social media. &#8220;I&#8217;m thankful to the @nba and especially the @chicagobulls organization for putting on a legendary event and having me be a part of it. #MambaMentality #NBAAllStar #NBAAllStar2020 #Chicago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123960\/what-s-really-going-on-between-bachelor-nation-s-chris-bukowski-and-katrina-badowski?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! 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In fact, an onlooker told us it was just the two of them enjoying dinner at Bandit. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t any obvious PDA outside of the typical [&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-288367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 20:00:41","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\/288367","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=288367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}