Bachelor Nation’s Mike Johnson Reveals He Has a New Girlfriend: ‘I Slid in the DMs’

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Off the market! Mike Johnson is happily dating a mystery woman after connecting through a mutual friend.“Absolutely [I’m dating],” the Bachelorette alum, 34, revealed during an appearance on the Wednesday, December 21, episode of the “Click Bait” podcast after host Joe Amabile asked if Johnson had a girlfriend.While Johnson refused to share his love’s identity, he offered a few tidbits about their early romance.“My homie actually tried to holler at her.

I stay home most of the time and she was out and he was out [and] tried to holler at her, and then she stood up and he was like, ‘Yeah, she’s too tall for me,’” the former “Talking It Out” podcast host recalled during the Wednesday episode.While their connection didn’t pan out, Johnson’s mystery lady still thought his friend was nice — before asking him to pass along her Instagram handle to share with the intimacy coach. “And then, I slid in the DMs,” the military veteran quipped.“He was definitely a great hype man,” Johnson added. “He was like, ‘You just came back from this place, I just came back from this place.’ It was a lot of connections and so, he just threw that out for me. … And of course, I’m gonna dunk it!”Johnson and his partner have been exclusively dating for nearly two months after “talking” for six months.“You guys are basically married!

When are you going to tell us her name?” fellow podcast guest Gabby Windey, who split from fiancé Erich Schwer earlier this year, jokingly teased Johnson.Johnson notably blushed after Windey, 31, and podcast cohost Natasha Parker teased him, and revealed that the new couple will “probably” celebrate his birthday and New Year’s Eve together.The Texas native, who rose to fame as one of Hannah Brown’s Bachelorette suitors in