Blake Horstmann Explains How His Relationship With Giannina Gibelli Is ‘Different’ and ‘Magical’

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As Blake Horstmann and Giannina Gibelli approach their first anniversary, the reality stars are going strong.“It will be a year here in December, so I’m creeping up on 12 months — it’s been a minute since I’ve dated a girl for a year,” the 33-year-old Bachelorette alum exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting SITKA Studio’s collaboration for conservation with Martin Guitar and Thomas Rhett. “It’s been awesome.

It’s been amazing, honestly, it’s been incredible.”The pair met while filming Paramount+’s All-Star Shore and had to keep things under wraps before the series aired.“We had to first keep basically six months of our relationship private, so that was fun in a sense because we didn’t have the public pressure, we didn’t have all the eyes on us, we could just kind of be ourselves,” he continued. “But it was hard too, because it’s never fun to hide the person you love.”Horstmann acknowledged that the twosome “weren’t very good” at keeping their romance from fans.“I’ve been in the ‘public eye’ for four years now, but this is the first time I’ve dated somebody in public.

So I was very nervous about that, and I wasn’t sure what to expect,” he said. “But honestly, it’s been incredible. I cannot believe the support from Bachelor Nation and the Love Is Blind [area], the Netflix side of things.

It’s been amazing. Last year’s been pretty magical, so can’t complain over here.”The reality TV personality added that the pair communicate better than any of his past romances.“I think the one thing that we do differently that I’ve never had any kind of relationship with that is — [and] I think it comes from our past and the relationships we’ve been in, some of the situations we’ve been in — we both handle conflict incredibly well,”