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Big Brother’s Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss have formed a romantic alliance.
In a post of her ownfeaturing another picture of the duo, Rehfuss wrote, “💗💗💗 the absolute best thing to come out of the most stressful 3 months of my life.”
“Loving of you two 🥺,” Long added.
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“I’m absolutely shocked in the best way possible! So happy for you both! 🙌🏻❤️,” Brent Champagne commented, while Britini D’Angelo wrote, “❤️❤️❤️ LEGIT SO HAPPY FOR YOU GUYS!!!”
“So do ya’ll prefer ‘Daire’ or ‘Clerek’? Just wondering for username of the stan social media accounts I’m making… 😍💕😍💕😍💕,” Kyland Young quipped.
Alyssa Lopez joked to the couple: “FOREVER YOUR THIRD WHEEL.”
Xiao was evicted from theBig Brotherhouse on the 51st day of his stay, while Rehfuss' run ended on the 65th day during a double eviction.
While the pair were friendly with one another during the competition, they didn’t acknowledge their chemistry until arriving at the jury house and spending some time together off camera.
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“I think that we both really felt the chemistry once we got to jury house and could really connect with each other,” RehfusstoldUs Weeklyin a joint interview with Xiao. “We would stay up late talking every single night and we just really developed a bond.”
“I remember the first or second night that she was there, we stayed up all night just talking until 5:00 a.m. That happened every single night for the first, like, five days,” Xiao recalled. “That’s when I started really thinking like, ‘Wait a second, why didn’t this happen in the house? There’s such a strong connection and chemistry between us.’ I think that was the beginning of us thinking about what this could be.”
“I’m really, really happy that we went about it that way,” she said of how their romance blossomed off-screen. “First off, our lives just do mesh really, really well. And I am really glad that it started outside of the house.”
source: people.com
