Daisy Kent’s Boyfriend Thor Herbst Is ‘Very Supportive’ After ‘The Bachelor’

Daisy Kent is completely satisfied to be again along with her school sweetheart following her Bachelor exit!

On Monday, Might 13, the newly well-known actuality star, 25, stopped by the Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad podcast the place she mentioned how she and her boyfriend Thor Herbst have a second probability at love.

Whereas talking with the women, the podcast hosts joked about guys “taking pictures their shot” at Kent after Joey Graziadei finally gave the Last Rose to Kelsey Anderson. 

Tilley, 35, and Rad, 36, then found that Kent is relationship after asking about her present love life.

“What an awesome title!” the co-hosts stated was their preliminary response to headlines about Kent relationship “Thor.”

“A really robust title,” they quipped.

In accordance with Kent, her new boyfriend isn’t so new in any respect. “We dated 4 years in the past,” she stated. “Yeah, so a very long time in the past.”

Kent defined that she and her outdated flame first dated in school earlier than rekindling their relationship.

“We did not date for very lengthy, however we had been all the time actually good pals after and our complete school pal group is tremendous shut. After which yeah, after which it simply occurred the way in which it occurred,” she defined.

Kent revealed that it was Herbst who determined to finish issues, however she agreed that it was most likely the neatest transfer for them on the time, including that whereas they had been in school, they “simply wished to have enjoyable.”

However as soon as Herbst noticed issues fizzle with Graziadei, 28, he tried his luck with Kent. 

“He reached out after which we  — it wasn’t till after the present that we determined to attempt to give it a go and we’re giving it a go and it is going good,” Kent stated whereas laughing. 

And regardless of Kent’s sudden fame, she stated she and Herbst truly see one another “actually usually.”

Discussing her social media “onerous launch” of her not-so-new beau, the season 28 runner-up stated her relationship doesn’t appear to be a “massive deal” to her.

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“I’ve identified him for therefore lengthy. He is all the time been like an excellent pal of mine,” she added. 

After a couple of jokes about Herbst being “very safe” of Kent’s friendship with Tyler Cameron, she additionally shared that her boyfriend is “very supportive” of her newfound fame. 

“I referred to as him earlier than I used to be coming right here. I used to be similar to, ‘I’d get requested about it. Would you like me to not say something?’ He’s like, ‘No matter you need to share. However should you ever really feel uncomfortable, simply say that’s between me and him,’ ” Kent stated. “So he’s very supportive of what I need to do and all of this too, however he by no means ever thought this could occur.”