Julianne Hough Spotted With ‘Bachelor Nation’ Star Tanner Courtad

Julianne Hough has been spotted hanging out with a Bachelor Nation reality star.

In photos published by Just Jared on Friday, December 6, the Dancing With the Stars cohost, 36, was pictured spending time with Tanner Courtad.

The outlet reported the pair had dinner at the Sportsman’s Lodge shopping center in Studio City, California on Thursday, December 5.

For the outing, both Hough and Courtad opted for activewear for the early evening outing. Hough wore a green puffer jacket teamed with black leggings while Courtad chose an all-black ensemble consisting of a T-shirt and shorts.

Courtad, 31, vied for the heart of Charity Lawson on The Bachelorette in 2023 before later appearing on Bachelor in Paradise the same year.’

ABC described Courtad in his bio for the Bachelor franchise as “100% husband material.”

“The fitness instructor is extremely close with his family and hopes to find a relationship as special as the one his parents have,” the bio read. “While growing up, Tanner and his family rescued over 50 dogs and he hopes to rescue more with his future wife.”

Meanwhile, Hough has a lucrative gig at the helm of Dancing With the Stars and recently joked about her single status while performing a saucy routine to viral TikTok song “Man In Finance” in a November episode of the reality show.

“Great to see you out on the floor with the guys,” Hough’s cohost, Alfonso Ribeiro joked at the time.

In response, Hough quipped, “Yeah, the guys. Well, you know, I am single and I’m looking for a guy anywhere I can find one.”

Hough publicly came out in a September 2019 profile for Women’s Health, noting at the time that she informed then-husband Brooks Laich that she was “not straight.” The couple ultimately split in 2020 and finalized their divorce in 2022.

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Julianne Hough is an open book when it comes to her sexuality. The Dancing With the Stars cohost previously revealed that she is “not straight” while speaking to Women’s Health for a cover story in 2019. At the time, she was married to former NHL player Brooks Laich. (The couple split in 2020 after nearly […]

While Hough previously acknowledged she is “not straight,” the TV personality admitted in a September episode of the “Jamie Kern Lima Show” podcast that she believes she will eventually settle down with a male partner.

“I feel like I’m going to end up with a man,” Hough said, but noted she is open to this not being the case. “I want to be living and vibrating in the pace of my most authentic self for that to be what attracts whoever it is versus I’m gonna put what I think I want and need out there and then literally force-create it,”

Hough added she wants to have “a partner” and “build a life with somebody and have a family.”

She continued, “That’s still, like, where my heart is open, but I’m content, which content used to scare the s— out of me.”