All bromances are different. Tyler CameronHe opened up about the questions he had regarding his friendships with Matt James Rachael Kirkconnell — admitting to Use Weekly that he isn’t spending as much time with the Bachelor season 25 couple in recent months.
“I think people think [Matt and I aren’t friends] because we’re just not in each other’s everyday lives like we used to be,” Cameron, 29, exclusively told Use while supporting Degree’s “Not Done Yet Marathon” team after the San Francisco marathon on Sunday, July 24. “I think it’s part of growing up. It’s part of entering a relationship.”
While Bachelor Nation met James, 30, as Cameron’s BFF when season 15 of The Bachelorette was airing in 2019 — and watched James become the season 25 Bachelor as a result — Cameron reminded Us that they’ve been friends since 2012.
“We all have those friends that they grow up, they start dating their person, they get married, they do their thing and you see him when you see him,” he explained.
Speculation about Cameron and James’ friendship was fueled when the First ImpressionsAuthor joked about Andy Cohen Live: See What Happens in May that Kirkconnell, 25, and his bestie have a “love-hate” relationship. They were often seen together last year, when James and Cameron still lived in New York City.
“I was definitely going through my own s—t. … We just have our own ways of clashing,” Cameron told UseAbout his relationship with Kirkconnell. “I don’t like listening to people sometimes. And she’s strong and she has a really good opinion on a lot of things. And sometimes I don’t want to hear it.”
The Real Dirty Dancing alum clarified that the Georgia native “always means well” and is a “really good person” who is a good match for James.
“They’re very happy and I think we clash just because we’re both passionate people in what we believe in. But we’ve also learned from each other, so that’s good,” he added. “I think they’re good for each other. They keep each other happy and keep each other going and that’s what’s important.”
James and Kirkconnell were spending time in Miami. Cameron, on the other hand, moved back home to Jupiter, Florida and has been seeing. Paige Lorenze. The You Deserve Better author traveled to San Francisco over the weekend after working with Degree’s “Not Done Yet Marathon” team — Sagirah Ahmed Norris, Michael Zampella and Ashley Zirkle.
“We had our calls. They would ask me where I was going wrong. I also told them how I had done in the marathons. [I ran]. Things to do and don’t leading into it. It was a good thing that they all finished! We’re all finishers. It’s an amazing feat to run a marathon,” Cameron told Us. “And for what they’ve gone through — Sagirah battling MS and Ashley donated a kidney and she used the marathon as her motivation to get up and get healthy again, get moving and recover. And Mike has vision impairment, and he doesn’t stop.”
He concluded: “I think that message [of] ‘not being done yet’ is important and powerful. And if they can get through what they’ve gone through, we can get through a lot of things.”
