Relationships Talk

Has the host of The Bachelor finally found love? According to Entertainment Tonight, Chris Harrison and ET correspondent Lauren Zima are dating. The pair walked the red carpet together at Entertainment Weekly‘s pre-SAG Awards party on Saturday, Jan. 27. Neither Harrison nor Zima have publicly confirmed they’re dating just yet, but if they’re not, then Zima’s co-workers are going to have some explaining to do on Monday morning since her outlet broke the news.

It seems Zima may have given ET the OK to share her happy news since she posted a photo from the event to Instagram. The only caption she provided to the cute picture of her and Harrison on the red carpet is a red heart. But she did share one more photo of the two of them together on her Instagram Story. “He’s great at parties,” the journalist wrote on their snuggly photo.

A party insider told E! online that Harrison and Zima were looking extra cozy throughout the evening. “Chris had his hand on Lauren’s back as they waited at the bar,” the source told E! News. “They looked very coupley and Chris was whispering in Lauren’s ear.”

Since his 2012 divorce from high school sweetheart Gwen Harrison, Harrison has been a bachelor himself — just not The Bachelor, although more than one fan has suggested he step into the role over the years. In a 2016 interview with The Daily Beast, the reality show host revealed that work is one of the primary factors that’s kept him mostly single in recent years. Just because his busy schedule isn’t exactly conducive to romance that doesn’t mean that Harrison isn’t looking for love. “I’m a hopeless, helpless romantic just like everybody else, so hopefully I’ll follow my own advice one day,” he told the outlet.

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If ET‘s report is any indication, then Harrison may finally have done just that, and he couldn’t have picked a better person. Zima is a journalist who is known for her celebrity interviews, which suggests she knows what it’s like to have a busy schedule. More importantly, she and Harrison have known each other for some time. She’s interviewed The Bachelor host on more than one occasion over the years, and as recently as Jan. 15, she had an exclusive interview with Harrison about the upcoming season of The Bachelorette.

Devoted members of Bachelor Nation may even have seen this couple coming. On Dec. 6, Zima shared a photo of herself with Harrison and a poster of this season’s Bachelor Colton Underwood. “The two most important men in my life, TBH,” the correspondent captioned the picture. Not long after she shared the pic, Harrison commented, “The most dramatic interview ever. Another great interview and chat LZ!”

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It’s way too soon to start handing out roses, but it certainly sounds like Harrison has finally found his match. And while they didn’t come together in the manner that most couples find love in Bachelor Nation, fans can take heart in knowing that it definitely sounds like The Bachelor played an important role in bringing Zima and Harrison together.

Last year, the Yara Shahidi made waves on the red carpet when she showed up to the Screen Actors Guild Awards in a stunning Ralph Lauren jumpsuit adorned with an enormous bow-turned-train. But this year, she’s also making waves behind the scenes as a SAG Awards ambassador, giving her fans an inside look at everything that happens in the days leading up to the big event. She’s certainly been in-demand given her talent for acting and activism, which makes us wonder if Yara Shahidi is single — though we’re guessing she’s probably too busy being an accomplished actress, political activist, and student at Harvard (yes, Harvard) to be dating anyone at the moment.

Shahidi announced her acceptance to the Ivy League school in June 2017, before following her Black-ish and Grown-ish character, Zoey, into her college years. The spinoff just debuted its second season on Jan. 2 and Zoey is in her sophomore year.

“It’s really useful,” she said on Good Morning America, regarding experiencing college life on-screen. “When I tell you, I give great college advice to my friends because I’m like, ‘Oh, we just did this last episode.’ And it’s so nice because [Zoey] gets into so much trouble that I have advice for like every situation possible.”

And that includes dating. Shahidi has seen Zoey encounter some heartbreaking situations in her dating life, and for that and many other reasons, she says she’s decided not to focus her energy there just yet. After all, she’s only 18.

“I haven’t dated anybody. My general outlook is if I don’t have time to take a bath on a regular basis, then I don’t have time for another human,” she told Seventeen in Oct. 2017. “I love being busy, and I enjoy where I am at right now.”

By the looks of her social media, she’s still very busy in 2019. And she doesn’t seem to be sharing selfies with anyone who’s more than a friend. At this rate of booking, she’s going to be this busy for a while. So she might be happily single for the foreseeable future.

During mid-term election season, she founded the Eighteen x 18 initiative, per ABC News, an organization that empowers and encourages her generation to vote, and she remains very engaged with her activism. She actually has said she plans to boost her engagement even more this year, so who knows what she has up her sleeve. Just don’t expect her to only be active around election day.

“I feel like the goal is continue to express how civic engagement is an everyday activity and as much as voting is important, how we can express power within our communities and help our communities as well,” she said on Good Morning America.

On top of that, she’s also double majoring at Harvard. “As much as I want free time, I love to challenge myself,” she told Seventeen. “And so it really goes back to the point that I want to study as much as possible and [doing] a double major is the solution.”

Case in point, Shahidi is too busy saving the world to be dating anyone — at least as far as we know. But she won’t be too busy to attend pre-SAG Awards events and share all of the hype with viewers on social media. According to E! News, she and her fellow ambassador, Harry Shum Jr., will also have the opportunity to recognize some outstanding film and television stunt ensembles for their incredible work over the last year. Follow Shahidi on Instagram and Twitter to stay up to date.

“They start to profess more and more interest and love at an early stage, when they really can’t know you well,” she explained. “Unfortunately it’s intoxicating when someone says, ‘I only want to talk to you, I think you’re special, I think we’re destined to be together, I’ve been waiting all my life to find you’.

If you’re looking for someone to date or fall in love with in 2019, your timing couldn’t be perfect. I don’t just mean that because it’s a brand new year and it’s still the beginning, but because 2019 is a marvellous year of revelations and strengthening certain aspects about how you react to things around you.

Just like how everything happens with an evolutionary spin, dating too takes that curve every once a while and permits us to seek new rules every time we want to start exploring the world with someone. 

Apart from the rules you need to stick to, for dating in different cities, there are something’s which are stagnant and unanimous, in terms of qualifying as the ‘deal breaker’. And for a man, in 2019 particularly, it’s his tryst with honesty.

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Even with a heavy spin off on finding the ‘perfect match’ at a brink of a second, we’re still looking for folds of realism in people we ardently want to be with and if things aren’t real, it’s difficult to define what the intent actually is. The crux of everything a man is today or what he should be doing, is all matched up to how honest he is as a human being and if he’s indeed as honest as he should be, greater good does come his way.

In relationships though, which are certainly not archaic anymore, honesty has become a trivial concept and it certainly shouldn’t be one. 

Because people are dishonest they move away and start swiping again but if you’re honest to one another, you’re amorous, even though you want to head in different directions eventually.

So here are 4 pertinent things every man should definitely be honest about, if he’s looking to date in 2019:

(1) What You Really Want From Her

The new year brings a new age, or that’s the easiest assumption I summon. No, really, can we go a little old school here? Remember a time when there were no dating apps or much of social media influencing our decisions? We would take time to wonder and think what we really want out of a dynamic? Yes, let’s bring that back. 

Be open about what you really want because honestly, women are done with men playing games or giving them the chase. If you want an open relationship, be vocal about it, if you want to be in a relationship, there’s no harm sharing that, if you just want something casual, let it out, but there isn’t any point of being dishonest about your intent, because when she finds out you’re dishonest, you’ll just be a man who lies and gets away with it!

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(2) Are You Commitment Phobic?

A commitment phobic person could break at any point in time. If you’re not ready for a commitment, don’t dazzle her with your charm and leave her to figure the rest. 

Let her know that commitment scares you and even if you really want to be with her and the big ‘C’ gets in the way, ask her to help you out with it. Maybe she can help you take it slow, maybe she can opt for something casual with you. Who knows? and you won’t know either unless you voice out your very obvious concern. Don’t let her find out through some 10,000 alarming signals you let off, during the day.

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(3) That Sexism Scares You, Not Feminism

Yup, as text-bookish as I may sound right about now, it’s actually true. Be wary, you’re always judged for that and that’s not because women want to judge you till you evaporate, it’s because equality is very important for them and if you’re on the same wavelength, hallelujah! 

Women have found a voice in 2019, well they had one way before too, maybe you just weren’t listening. But now, if you hear, they’re saying it’s okay to understand what they really need and want from a man, which doesn’t reek of sexist behaviour and aligns with some feminist ideology. 

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It certainly doesn’t mean you have to embrace everything in the name of feminism, it just means you have to start being equals. Chivalry is great but maybe go dutch on the bill? Let her drive you for a change or even pull a chair back for you?

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(4) Be Honest About Your Long-Term Goals

You can slip it into a conversation or just have a long conversation and disclose all you want to about what you’re looking at, in 2019. You could be looking at getting married or maybe just being with someone, whatever it is, being honest about it, rather than shying away from it is way easier and classier, might I add.

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You could add-on more honest things to be honest about other than these 4 pointers and make a classic example of how you’ve understood what I am trying to say, or you can just press the little obnoxious cross on the top-right corner of your window and close this article, but let me tell you this- Who doesn’t love an honest man? He can live a tough life but he’d never be forgotten and that’s how important a role honesty really plays, in society and of course in 2019, today.

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