The couple, who began dating in 2018, sparked wedding speculation on Tuesday when Harrison, 49,posted a photofeaturing him sweetly kissing Zima, 33. In the black-and-white picture, Harrison is dressed up in a suit while Zima wears an elegant floor-length gown.
“Love you so much and appreciate all the ‘congrats’! This bridesmaids dress is really living above its potential,” Zima wrote.
“Wow you attend one wedding together…do one chicken dance and your hitched!” Harrison replied. “Congrats Christine and Kevin on a beautiful wedding and the start of a wonderful life together. I do love this bridesmaid though❤️.”
Zima,a full-time correspondentatEntertainment Tonight, met theBachelorhost through interviews. After appearing as a reoccurring guest on ET’sBachelorsegments, Harrison previouslytold PEOPLEhe came to find “she’s as much as a grinder as I am” and “loves, admires and respects” that about her.
“It’s been easy and I think that’s how it all starts,” he continued. “We started dating and, like any relationship, she made me happy. She was kind, nice, we got along, she blended in great with my friends, and just all those steps in the relationship where you start checking those boxes off and it gets better and better and better.”
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Harrison has recentlytaken a step backfrom his post as theBachelorfranchise host for a period of time after he received backlash forhis responseto contestant Rachael Kirkconnell’spast racially insensitive actions.
The controversy began when photos surfaced of Kirkconnell, a contestant onMatt James' season, attending an antebellum plantation-themed party in 2018. (She has sinceapologizedand said that she is “learning and will continue to learn how to be antiracist.")
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In an interview forExtrawith former BacheloretteRachel Lindsay, Harrison defended Kirkconnell and questioned the “lens” of 2021 compared to 2018 and said that people should have “a little grace, a little understanding, a little compassion” for Kirkconnell.
source: people.com
