‘Golden’ Bachelor Nation’s Leslie Fhima and Jordan Heller Have Been ‘Texting’ Amid Dating Rumors

Leslie Fhima is answering everyone’s burning questions about her relationship with Jordan Heller. The Golden Bachelor alum clarified what’s going on between the two after they posed for a photo together at a soccer Game in October.

“I’m not dating Jordan,” Leslie, 65, said on the November 1 episode of Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti’s “Almost Famous” podcast. “I met Jordan.”

The personal trainer explained that Jordan, 61, invited her to go to the Los Angeles Football Club Game on October 27 while she was in town to attend a taping of Dancing With the Stars. “His childhood friend is, like, the president of the club and he had a suite and he invited me,” she shared.

Although Leslie insisted that she and Jordan aren’t an item, she added, “We have been texting a little bit. Just because we’re older doesn’t mean we’re stupid.” She later told the podcast hosts, “For me, I don’t know where it would go if it’s gonna go. I just think he’s a great guy and to be friends with him first is fine with me.”

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Leslie also told Entertainment Tonight that she thinks Jordan is “amazing” and “adorable,” then referred to him as “very, very handsome.”

Jordan was a contestant on season 1 of The Golden Bachelorette with Leslie’s Golden Bachelor costar Joan Vassos. Joan, 61, eliminated the Illinois resident after the hometown dates episode, which aired just days before he was spotted spending time with Leslie. Meanwhile, Leslie was Gerry Turner’s runner-up on The Golden Bachelor.

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Following Jordan’s elimination, Joan Traveled to Tahiti with her final 3 men – Pascal Ibgui, Guy Gansert and Chock Chapple. Pascal, 70, decided to leave the show after realizing that he was not in love with Joan, leaving her with just two men left heading into the November 13 finale.

After his self-elimination episode aired, Pascal further explained his decision and why he doesn’t think the Golden franchise will be able to produce a successful couple. “If you take a 25 to 30-year-old kid who doesn’t have a pot to pee in, doesn’t own a car, who [is] in between jobs, who rents an apartment, who’s looking for an identity, it’s easy to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to move to L.A., I’m going to move to New Orleans, and we’re going to make a living together,’” Pascal explained. “But when you are like me – established, I have a Business, I have real estate, I have my friends, I have my routine, I have my Health club, I have my connection – I ain’t going to move anywhere.”

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However, he suggested a way to modify the Golden franchise to “accommodate the older generation” by narrowing down the cast to specific cities. “Chicago’s got 13 million people,” he pointed out. “You tell me you can’t find 25 widowed or divorced people in that age group? Because [at] my age, I want to wake up with somebody, I want to go to bed with somebody, I want to take a walk with somebody. I don’t want to get on a plane to go see somebody every two weeks.”

He added, “To me, if I meet somebody who lives in [another suburb of Chicago], OK then. We could go spend every weekend together. We could spend [a] couple nights a week together. But if you live in Washington D.C., when am I going to see you? And I think, to me, that’s the biggest challenge I had with Joan. I didn’t want to invest because I want a partner on a daily basis.”