Jenn Tran and Jonathon Johnson are two peas in a pod.
While attending the DirecTV Gets Real social gathering hosted by DirecTV, PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly on Sept. 26, the fact star opened up about how she and Johnson have bonded since they each appeared on the twenty first season of The Bachelorette.
Noting that they're having “so much fun” collectively, Tran — who had beforehand gotten engaged in the course of the finale of the ABC collection to Devin Strader — informed PEOPLE, “It’s funny, because [you learn] so much more about the person after the show.”
“There’s so many layers to uncover and things about them that you didn’t know, especially things that they were feeling in the moment on the show, and you’re like, ‘Wait, you weren’t feeling that way?' ” she continued.
Added Tran, “So it’s so nice to know Jonathon even more after the show. We’ve become so much closer.”
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Tran and Strader broke up not lengthy after a proposal in Hawaii. During the After The Final Rose particular, the star informed host Jesse Palmer, “As soon as we had left Hawaii, things were just different.”
“It kind of just felt like he was pulling away all the promises that he had made to me — wanting to move somewhere together, and wanting to have this future planned out, and wanting to see each other all the time,” she continued.
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Tran detailed that she then received a name from Strader after not listening to from him, the place he informed her he wished to interrupt off the engagement. “[He said] he didn't love me anymore, feel the same way and felt like something had been off since the second thing he proposed. He regretted getting engaged,” she defined.
Though Tran provided to work issues out and transfer ahead, the engagement was referred to as off following the 15-minute cellphone name.
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Tran later began showing in Johnson's TikToks, which led to followers speculating about whether or not or not the 2 are relationship.
They subsequent stepped out collectively at PEOPLE's fiftieth party at The Chain House in Los Angeles in September.
Later that very same month, Tran caught up with PEOPLE on the season 33 premiere of Dancing with the Stars, the place she opened up about her love life after Johnson was seen supporting her from the viewers.
Responding after Johnson stated he would say “yes” if Tran requested him on a date on a current episode of The Viall Files, Tran stated, “Honestly, Jonathan's been such an incredible buddy of mine, and so nice to have somebody right here in L.A. to assist me and be such a rock for me.”
“And my heart's just, right now, not in the space to date anybody, let alone Jonathan,” she added. “But I'm simply so excited to see the place our friendship goes.”
