Jason Tartick had only good things to say about Nick Viall after the podcaster trolled his ex Kaitlyn Bristowe recently on social media.
“Nick’s a friend. I love Nick,” the “Bachelorette” alum, 35, told Pvnew at Maxim’s Super Bowl 2024 party at Resorts World Las Vegas over the weekend when asked about Viall’s apparent dig.
He then added, attempting to divert the conversation, “I think what Nick is doing with his podcast is unreal and, you know what? I like Nick. Nick’s a good guy.”
When pressed further about the comment Viall left on Tartick’s Instagram, the reality star cheekily said, “I’ll leave that up for interpretation.”
Last week, Viall, 43, commented under a shirtless photo of Tartick and pal Tyler Cameron on a beach, “Nothing asexual about this.”
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The remark was a reference to comments Bristowe, 38, recently made on her podcast, “Off The Vine,” in which she said she once lost her sex drive while dating an unnamed man.
“I thought I was asexual. I literally thought I was asexual,” she recalled in the Feb. 6.
“I was like, I think at this point I could see myself more with a woman — I actually thought that — than a man.”
After Vialll chimed in, some fans came to the “Dancing With the Stars” winner’s defense, claiming it was never confirmed her comments were about Tartick.
“why you believe headlines,” one person wrote to the “Bachelor” alum. “Listen to the actual podcast, it wasnt about Jason. It was about her hormones and state of being
