Clayton Echard and Sara Cardona Shutterstock; Courtesy of Sara Cardona/Instagram
New romance? Clayton Echard was noticed hanging out with sports activities reporter Sara Cardona at a university basketball recreation.
The season 26 Bachelor, 29, and the journalist, 28, have been seen attending a College of Kentucky basketball recreation collectively in Lexington, Kentucky, on Saturday, February 4. The duo individually shared pictures from the occasion by way of their Instagram Tales on Sunday, February 5.
The Missouri native, for his half, reposted a video of himself dancing within the stands whereas Cardona stood by his facet. “The liquid braveness had taken over by this level 👀😂,” he quipped in his caption.
Cardona relies within the Lexington space, becoming a member of the native community ABC36 as a sports activities anchor in November 2021. Born in Colombia, she grew up in Nashville and later coated groups in Gainesville, Florida, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Earlier than he was noticed with Cardona, Echard was most lately in a relationship with Susie Evans, who received his season of The Bachelor. The gross sales rep proposed to the marriage photographer, 29, throughout the March 2022 season finale, however she turned him down. Through the After the Last Rose particular, nevertheless, Evans revealed that the pair rekindled their romance after filming.
The pair in the end known as it quits in September 2022, six months after the finale aired on ABC. “With extremely heavy hearts, we wished to share that we’ve got determined to go our separate methods. For anybody who has ever liked, is aware of this was a painful determination to make and never one taken evenly,” the duo mentioned in a joint assertion on the time. “We perceive that there’ll seemingly be numerous questions on this determination — social media is unquestionably a spotlight reel and far of our experiences collectively we’ve got stored non-public as I’m positive most can perceive. However we are going to share this — though this final yr collectively has introduced us a lot pleasure and so many laughs, there has additionally been a big quantity of ache.”
Clayton Echard and Susie Evans Courtesy of Susie Evans/Instagram
Earlier this month, Echard sparked romance rumors with ex Rachel Recchia, who was one of many three finalists on his Bachelor season alongside Evans and Gabby Windey. The pilot, 26, and the Dancing With the Stars alum, 32, self-eliminated after Echard confessed that he was in love with each of them. Recchia and Windey went on to develop into co-leads of The Bachelorette season 19.
Regardless of their cut up, Recchia and Echard lately reunited for a sequence of cheeky TikTok movies recorded with different Bachelor Nation members. In a single clip, season 18 Bachelorette Michelle Younger lip-synching over somebody saying, “Are you gonna inform me what’s occurring?”
The digicam then lower to Recchia, who mouthed the phrases: “I might, however I feel explaining it would give us each an aneurysm.” At that time, the digicam pulled again to disclose the season 19 Bachelorette sitting subsequent to the previous NFL participant.
Days later, the Chicago native seemingly reacted to the hypothesis about her and Echard in an Instagram Story put up. “U guys have me dedd [sic] it’s all in good enjoyable,” she wrote on Friday, February 3, alongside a selfie taken in a automobile. “Therapeutic and forgiveness is a lesson I had hassle studying for a very long time. I promise I’m not leaving this period fairly but.”
