The Bachelorette's Jonathon Johnson Supports Jenn Tran at Dancing with the Stars Premiere After Insisting They're 'Friends'

Jenn Tran had a special visitor supporting her on Dancing with the stars season 33 premiere!

As Jenn, 26, prepared to perform her first dance on the competition show on Tuesday, September 17, Jonathon Johnson, who was a contestant on her season bachelor, seen sitting in the front row looking at her next to him Bachelor Nation Susie Evans and Justin Glaze, i love is blind’with Chloe Veitch.

Before the dance, Jonathon, 28, stood up and clapped from the sidelines. He then proceeded to cheer Jenn on throughout the routine, fueling ongoing speculation from the past few weeks that the two were dating.

Jonathan Johnson on the season premiere of ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

ABC

“Jonathon supports Jenn,” wrote one user on Xu (formerly Twitter) alongside a teary-eyed emoji.

“An involuntary ‘wahoo’ escaped my lips when jonathon appeared on the screen,” wrote another.

One comment read excitedly: “JONATHON IS IN THE HOUSE”

Bachelor Jenn Tran at PEOPLE’s 50th birthday bash with Jonathon Johnson after Devin Strader’s breakup

Jenn joined DWTS just hours after taping the After the Final Rose special, where she revealed that she and fiancé Devin Strader had broken up. In the days following the special, Jenn and Jonathon began posting together on social media.

“All good, no offense,” he wrote on Sept. 7 in an Instagram post accompanied by a TikTok post in which the two joked about how Jenn “broke [Jonathan’s] heart.”

The two claim they’re just friends, sharing a photo together from the PEOPLE 50th birthday red carpet on Sept. 13 with Jack Harlow’s “Already Best Friends” playing in the background. “The song speaks for itself,” Jonathon wrote in the description.

Jenn sent Jonathon home after the fantastic suites, when he admitted that he had taken too long to express his feelings.

“I’ve never been good at validating my feelings — I think a lot of people struggle with validating their own feelings,” he told PEOPLE in August. “And I discovered that on the show, especially with Jenna’s help. So I mean, going forward, I’m just going to say, ‘Hey, do you like this person? Do you like this person? Are you sad? Are you happy? What do you want from this?’ And I just allow myself to feel whole.”

Jenn Tran and Jonathon.

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As for Jenn, she previously opened up to PEOPLE about joining DWTS, explaining that she can be shy at times.

“In my head I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have to do this in front of a live audience and in front of the whole world,'” she said. “And honestly, I feel like my biggest challenge this whole season will be overcoming stage fright. I get so scared and nervous in front of an audience. So that will be a big factor.”

“But other than that, honestly, I feel so excited to throw myself into something that I’ve always wanted to do, and I’m happy, I’m excited,” she added. “It’s good to have something to be happy about.”

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