Is there one other post-pod romance brewing, this time between Love Is Blind forged members Natalie Lee and Salvador Perez?!

As followers know, Natalie received engaged to Shayne Jansen through the present’s second season. And though the duo opted to not say ‘I do’ in the long run, they revealed on the reunion that they tried to make issues work once more earlier than ending issues a second time. Natalie and Shayne have since began to maneuver – and lots of have speculated that she could also be relationship fellow forged members: Sal!

Rumors that the pair are relationship have popped up on-line for the reason that sequence ended after he began leaving some fairly flirty feedback on the 29-year-old’s Instagram posts. When Natalie shared an image of herself in a surprising pink gown, Sal gushed on the time:

“Informal Wednesday? … Pshh My goodness.”

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Natalie then posted a surprising snapshot of herself with a view of Chicago within the background, writing within the caption:

“The previous Nat can’t come to the cellphone proper now. why? trigger she’s lifeless.”

In response, Sal wrote:

“What’s new Natalie’s quantity? I’ve been which means to contact her about her automotive’s prolonged guarantee.”

Fairly flirty proper?! Then, her ex-fiancé added gasoline to the romance rumors when a fan requested about his and Natalie’s present emotions for one another – and let’s simply say that his response raised fairly a couple of eyebrows! He replied to the query:

“Ask @salvadior08.”

Whoa! After all, everybody instantly couldn’t assist however imagine she and Sal have been a factor after that cryptic response! And now, Natalie is setting the document straight about the place she and Sal stand! Throughout an episode of the Tea With Publyssity podcast on Thursday, the consulting supervisor spilled that she and Sal are undoubtedly “shut.” Nevertheless, she claimed they’re NOT a pair:

“I do know that there’s hypothesis that Sal and I are relationship. We’re not, we’re simply actually, actually shut associates.”

Calling him “a really trustworthy particular person,” Natalie added:

“I really feel like once I speak with him, what you see is what you get. I additionally love his calm demeanor. I used to be like, ‘Wow, each time I speak to you, I really feel a bit higher and a bit extra calm.’”

The Netflix persona went on to share that she is taking a while to concentrate on herself, explaining:

“Probably the greatest issues that basically helped me in simply feeling actually safe in my resolution to say no on the altar is my dad was like, ‘You don’t want a person to make you content. You must make your self joyful and that’s actually all that issues.’ So proper now I’m actually centered on myself.”

The truth is, Natalie isn’t “actively relationship” anybody however is “exploring some issues” in the meanwhile. (No, it’s not a relationship with a forged member! Clearly, LOLz!) She shared:

“I’m associates with many of the males on the forged and I don’t actually see—I don’t wish to say this too quickly – however I haven’t actually had a romantic reference to any of them. So nothing there for proper now.”

Sorry to burst anybody’s bubble in the event that they have been delivery Sal and Natalie collectively – however he additionally confirmed that the duo is simply actually nice associates. The truth star confessed Leisure Tonight on Friday:

“Natalie and I are actually good associates. That that’s all I can say. We don’t have something occurring. Natalie is only a very candy particular person. I respect her rather a lot and now we have been taking part in round with one another – however no, we’re associates. We’re good associates and that’s all.”

Sigh…

As for Shayne’s bizarre response on the ‘gram, Sal claimed that the entire state of affairs got here right down to a misunderstanding over his flirty feedback on Natalie’s posts:

“I don’t assume Shayne knew that Natalie and I have been simply being playful. I talked to Shayne too and was like, ‘Hey man, it’s all good.’ Like I do know Shayne is out doing his personal factor proper now. I cleared it up with him and Shane and I are actually good associates too. I used to be identical to, ‘Hey, we’re simply having slightly little bit of enjoyable, that’s all.’”

There you’ve it, of us! Sadly, it seems to be just like the twosome are simply remaining associates — for now! Did you ship Natalie and Sal collectively, Perezcious readers? Do you assume they’ll ever date sooner or later? Tell us your reactions within the feedback (beneath).

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