Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell Gush About Life After ‘The Bachelor’: Prank Wars, Travel and No ‘Timeline’

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Still going strong — and laughing along the way. Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about their dynamic more than one year after meeting on season 25 of The Bachelor.“I feel like with everything we go through and whatnot, I feel like it’s pretty crucial to just have fun with one another no matter where we’re at or what we’re doing,” the 25-year-old Georgia native told Us during a joint interview with James, 30, from TAO Beach Dayclub at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. “We got to make the most of everything.”The former Bachelor agreed, telling Us, “We like to have a good time.

And I think that it’s important to share every aspect of who you are with, you know, the people that care enough to follow along and a lot of what we do in our day-to-day is very playful.

I think that a lot of other couples are in the same situation — we’re not alone in the way that we interact with one another and talk to each other.

So when people see that, it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, we do the same thing.’ It just helps with them being able to relate to you.”Fans of the couple know that they have been traveling a lot during summer 2022, including a vacation to Greece and Italy, which included a viral video of James pushing Kirkconnell into the pool.“The prank wars have just begun,” the Wake Forest alum quipped. “I think I’m due for, like, some[thing] really bad.