
Rachel Recchia, Blake Moynes
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images; Pablo Archuleta/Getty ImagesFormer single Raquel Recchia is squashing romance rumors between her and Blake Moynes – again.
After “Almost famous” co-host Trista SutterpAlthough she will “always ship” the couple, Rachel, 28, admitted that people “always do.”
“He’s like one of my best friends,” Rachel said on the Saturday, December 21 episode of the podcast. “We are so different. “We have very different types.”
Rachel explained that Blake, 34, has a “broader range” of types, while she prefers a “more feminine era of guys.”
“Blake says I have to stop doing that. He says, ‘That’s why you can’t find a boyfriend,’” Rachel said. “(He says), ‘You need a manly guy.’ I think, ‘I haven’t been looking for that, so I’m trying to keep an open mind.'”
Rachel noted that she’s been dipping her toe back into the dating pool, but had no updates to share about her love life at the moment. “When I can I will let you know,” he said. “I’ve been going out a little bit. There will be something to report, but not at the moment.”
In August, Rachel ended speculation that she and Blake were more than friends after she was spotted supporting him at Oceana Seachange’s 17th Annual Summer Party with Nautica in Laguna Beach, California.
“We went to an event together. “Everyone wants us to be a couple so much,” she said on an episode of the “Almost Famous” podcast at the time. “I feel like we always address the rumor over and over again. We are not a couple yet. “We are friends.”
Despite the co-host Ashley Iaconetti Noting that the duo “look really cute together,” Rachel said they haven’t kissed once. “He is my strongest friend. “I go to him for everything,” he explained. “Who would I turn to then if we had that weird kiss and then things got awkward?”
After not finding the right one In previous seasons of the franchise, Rachel and Blake were contestants on season 9 of Bachelor in paradise in 2023. The couple decided to leave the show in week 4 when they failed to find a romantic connection on the beaches of Mexico.
“We went to Paradise together. “We are friends and have been traveling for over a year,” Rachel explained about their friendship. “If it was, I think it would have happened.”
Before the romance rumors with Blake, Rachel broke up with her and Gabby Windyseason 19 of The bachelorette party committed to frank tino but the couple separates after it was revealed that he kissed someone during a rough patch in their relationship. Blake, for his part, was committed to Katie Thurston in 2021 but they broke up months later.