{"id":23544,"date":"2019-05-12T15:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1040784"},"modified":"2019-05-12T15:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:47:45","slug":"are-nikki-bella-and-artem-chigvintsev-an-official-couple-yet-brie-calls-her-sister-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/are-nikki-bella-and-artem-chigvintsev-an-official-couple-yet-brie-calls-her-sister-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev an &#8220;Official&#8221; Couple Yet? Brie Calls Her Sister Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019330\/rs_600x600-190430102239-artem4.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.061899679829\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27.374599786553\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nikki_bella\">Nikki Bella<\/a><\/strong> insists she and&nbsp;<strong>Artem Chigvintsev<\/strong>&nbsp;are still not an &#8220;official&#8221; couple, but her twin sister&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brie_bella\">Brie Bella<\/a><\/strong> is just not buying it.<\/p>\n<p>E! News learned in January that the Nikki, 35,&nbsp;and the 36-year-old&nbsp;<em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em>&nbsp;pro dancer, her partner during season 25 in 2017,&nbsp;<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\">were seeing<\/a>&nbsp;each other. She has since confirmed&nbsp;they are romantically involved, and he has made appearances on <em>Total Bellas<\/em>&nbsp;and her Instagram page. Responding to speculation&nbsp;that&nbsp;Artem is her boyfriend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1035215\/nikki-bella-clarifies-her-and-artem-chigvintsev-s-relationship-status-tmi-alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikki said in April she did not want to use labels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She echoed similar comments in a joint E! News interview with Brie&nbsp;on Saturday at&nbsp;the&nbsp;2019&nbsp;Best Buddies Mother&#8217;s Day Celebration, sponsored by Hublot, at La Villa Contenta in Malibu.&nbsp;Her sister then&nbsp;offered a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s building a house next door to me and he already has his closet picked out,&#8221; she revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh, a drawer,&#8221; Nikki said, later&nbsp;joking, &#8220;Hashtag no labels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.490196078431\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.7058823529412\">\n<p>Nikki said that on Wednesday&#8217;s episode of&nbsp;the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bellas-podcast\/id1451565442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bellas Podcast<\/a><\/em>, Artem is featured as a special guest and Brie gets candid about the pair&#8217;s relationship, which began several months after&nbsp;Nikki and fellow wrestler <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_cena\">John Cena<\/a><\/strong> <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\">split and ended their engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25\">\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe it but she literally calls me out in front of him about the whole &#8216;not being official,'&#8221; Nikki told E! News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She posts about him all the time,&#8221; Brie said.&nbsp;&#8220;They&#8217;re always together. They&#8217;re everything. I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Come on, you guys are official.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just, you know what it is, I so want to take my time,&#8221; Nikki said. &#8220;I think of everything that I&#8217;ve been through, like, it&#8217;s been an incredibly hard year but a year that I&#8217;ve had so much growth and I&#8217;ve learned so much and I&#8217;ve appreciated so much in my life, that I have this amazing thing in my life that makes me so incredibly happy, that I just am like, &#8216;You know what, I&#8217;m gonna take it day by day and see where it goes,&#8217; but I don&#8217;t want to jump into anything.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1040784\/are-nikki-bella-and-artem-chigvintsev-an-official-couple-yet-brie-calls-her-sister-out?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>Nikki Bella insists she and&nbsp;Artem Chigvintsev&nbsp;are still not an &#8220;official&#8221; couple, but her twin sister&nbsp;Brie Bella is just not buying it. E! News learned in January that the Nikki, 35,&nbsp;and the 36-year-old&nbsp;Dancing With the Stars&nbsp;pro dancer, her partner during season 25 in 2017,&nbsp;were seeing&nbsp;each other. 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