Jenn Tran Says She and Jonathon Johnson Have 'Become So Much Closer' Since The Bachelorette (Exclusive)

Jenn Tran and Jonathon Johnson are two peas in a pod.

While attending the DirecTV Gets Real party hosted by DirecTV, PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly On Sept. 26, the reality star opened up about how she and Johnson have grown closer since they both appeared on Season 21. Bachelor.

Noting that they’re “having a lot of fun” together, Tran — who previously got engaged during the ABC series finale to Devin Strader — told PEOPLE, “It’s funny, because [you learn] so much more about the person after the show.”

“There are so many layers to uncover and things about them that you didn’t know, especially things that they were feeling in the moment on the show, and you’re like, ‘Wait, you didn’t feel that way?’ ” she continued.

Tran added, “It’s so nice to know Jonathon even more after the show. We’ve become so much closer.”

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Tran and Strader broke up shortly after the proposal in Hawaii. During After The Final Rose special, the star told host Jesse Palmer, “As soon as we left Hawaii, things were just different.”

“I felt like he was going back on all the promises he made to me — he wanted us to move somewhere together, he wanted to plan this future and he wanted to see each other all the time,” she continued.

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Tran described then getting a call from Strader after not hearing from him, telling her he wanted to end the engagement. “[He said] he didn’t love me anymore, he felt the same and felt like something was disturbed from the other thing he proposed. He regretted getting engaged,” she explained.

Although Tran offered to work things out and move forward, the engagement broke off after a 15-minute phone call.

Jonathon Johnson and Jenn Tran.

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Tran later began appearing in Johnson’s TikToks, leading fans to speculate whether or not the two were dating.

They next stepped out together at PEOPLE’s 50th birthday party at The Chain House in Los Angeles in September.

Later that same month, Tran sat down with PEOPLE for the season 33 premiere Dancing with the stars, where she opened up about her love life after Johnson was seen supporting her from the audience.

Responding after Johnson said he would say “yes” if Tran asked him out on a recent episode Viall files, Tran said, “Honestly, Jonathan has been such an amazing friend to me and it’s great to have someone here in LA to support me and be such a rock for me.”

“And my heart just, right now, is not in the space to date anyone, let alone Jonathan,” she added. “But I’m so excited to see where our friendship goes.”

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