Bachelor’s Gabby Windey Downplays Previous Blake Horstmann Relationship: ‘No Drinks Were Paid For’

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Setting the record straight. Before Gabby Windey’s appearance on season 26 of The Bachelor, her previous Bachelor Nation relationships made headlines after she was linked to two Bachelorette alums: Dean Unglert and Blake Horstmann.In Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek of the Thursday, January 6, episode of the “Talking It Out With Bachelor Nation” podcast, Gabby, 30, claimed her previous romance with The Bachelorette season 14 runner-up, 32, wasn’t as serious as he may have indicated.“Blake and I had mutual friends,” Windey told cohosts Mike Johnson and Bryan Abasolo during the podcast episode that the former flames met shortly after she graduated college. “We never actually went on a date.

There was no drinks paid for. No dinner paid for. [Blake’s] saying we dated … He’s definitely friends of friends. You know, we had spent time together and stuff but definitely no, like, official dating, like, no really kind of formal, no exclusivity and again, it was a really long time ago.”Blake, for his part, previously opened up about their past association during an October 2021 episode of his  “Behind the Rose” podcast.“We like the same girls, man.

I didn’t know Dean until obviously, like, 2018, but Gabby was a good friend of one of my very good friends from college, they were roommates,” Blake said at the time. “I met Gabby long before I was on The Bachelorette, like, I want to say maybe 2015 or 2016.

We hung out for a little bit, so I know her very well. And Dean, I don’t know how it came up, but one time, me and Dean were sitting there — I think we were in Buffalo, and he mentioned Gabby — and I was like, ‘How do you know Gabby?’ And he was like, ‘Dude, she was, like, my girl in college, you know, we were in love and blah