Who Is Corinne Olympios’ Rumored Boyfriend? Everything We Know After ‘BIP’ Scandal
“Bachelor” alum Corinne Olympios allegedly claimed she would have never consciously agreed to engage in sexual contact with DeMario Jackson on “Bachelor in Paradise” because she had a boyfriend. What’s odd about this situation is that people are supposed to go on “BiP” to find love, though reality stars sometimes chase fame instead of romance. Olympios, it should be noted, has not issued an official statement on the scandal.
So if she really does have a boyfriend, who is he? Season 4 of “Bachelor in Paradise” was shut down after a producer allegedly filed a lawsuit, claiming sexual misconduct took place. Olympios was apparently black out drunk when her and Jackson hooked up in a swimming pool and the cameras caught it all.
Afterward, sources told TMZ the 25-year-old, who appeared on Season 18 of the “Bachelor” with Nick Viall, said she had a boyfriend and would never make a sober choice to have intimate relations with another man. She didn’t want to “jeopardize” her relationship with the mystery man from home.
If she is with someone, it could be the on-again, off-again boyfriend she dated before she tried to win Viall’s affection on the hit ABC series.
He claimed she still had feelings for her ex, who was not named. “She literally pressed upon the fact to me that they were still together,” her ex-fling Keith Berman, who she briefly dated, wrote in a January blog post. “She said to me, ‘We’re still together. I don’t want anyone to know — you have to keep this a secret for me.’ And I said, ‘OK, I’ll do whatever you want.’ That was what she had told me in person.”
Olympios reportedly wanted to keep the supposed relationship a secret because “she didn't want people to think she was on the show for the wrong reasons.” He added, “I thought she was on the show for the right reasons, but I guess I was wrong.”
Two months later, Berman blogged that Olympios was a cheater. “He figured out [that Olympios and I hung out] two years ago and [more recently than that]; and they’ve apparently been dating/together for 3 years so you do the math, he thought she cheated on him. Or at least that’s what I thought he was mad about when he was yelling at me on the phone! (Mind you they weren’t supposed to be in contact),” Berman blogged in March.
Olympios’ ex claimed she was there for the fame. “Your bachelor stint was a complete sham and now the whole town knows it! You HAD A FIANCÉ THE ENTIRE SHOW! You FAKED THE WHOLE THING! I’ll spare the internet the details because there’s no need for another kid to get dragged through the mud and bothered by the press as well but trust me I know exactly who her 'Mystery man/ real ex boyfriend/fiancé' is!” he wrote.
Publicly, Olympios denied the allegations. “I'm not engaged,” she told Us Weekly in March. "I don't know. I'm hearing so many different things. It’s just that people love to talk, I guess.”
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She did address to Entertainment Tonight Online that there was a “mystery” man.
“OK, so, this mystery man of mine. He’s going to remain a mystery, because … it’s so complicated,” she said. “We’ve talked about [me possibly going to Paradise], that’s why everything’s really on the fence right now. With him, with Paradise, I don’t really even know what’s going on with any of it. Nothing’s set in stone on either end.”
She continued to play coy on Facebook. “Who even knows if there still is a mystery man! Maybe I’m just fooling you all. I totally would do that too. Hint hint. I totally would! [Is the mystery man a tactic] to dodge Paradise? Maybe. You’ll never know,” she teased.
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