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Tyler Camerondidn’t rely on flash or cash to wooGigi Hadid— in fact,The Bachelorettealum claims to have hadonly $200 to his namewhen he dated the supermodel.
Cameron, 30, and fellowBachelorNation fixtureJason Tartick, 34, chatted about Cameron’s 2019 romance with Hadid, 27, on Monday’s edition of Tartick’sTrading Secretspodcast.
Tartick (who is engaged to former BacheloretteKaitlyn Bristowe) recalled chatting with Cameron at that time: “He goes to me, ‘Dude, I don’t know what the f— I’m doing. I got $5,000 in my bank account, I don’t know what my next job is, and I’m datingGigi Hadid!”
Cameron chimed in, “Not even $5,000 — I had like $200, you know what I mean?”
BACKGRID
Cameron and Hadid dated after his stint on season 15 of the ABC reality show, and Cameron evenattended Hadid’s grandmother’s funeralin the Netherlands in September 2019. (Cameronlost his own mother, Andrea, soon after in March 2020.)
During his brief time with Hadid, Cameron admitted he was “just crossing [my] fingers” given his financial insecurity.
Back in those “early days” of living in New York City, he was sleeping “on Matt’s beanbag,” he said on the podcast about his former Bachelor palMatt James.
Because he had “no money,” the Jupiter, Florida, native occasionally had to call in family favors for dating funds.
“I’d be going on dates, I’m like calling pops up in the bathroom. I’m like, ‘Pops, I don’t think my credit card’s gonna go through. I need you to send me some money right now.’ And he’s like, ‘You got it, son, go get it,” Cameron recalled.
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“I felt like I had to be strong andpretend it didn’t bother mewhen it did,” Brown, now 28,told PEOPLEat the time. “I was deeply hurt. I said to Tyler, ‘I’d dateGigi Hadidtoo if I could, I get it.’ But it was not the way I wish it was handled.”
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Cameron went on to be linked to another model — 24-year-oldPaige Lorenze— in 2022 beforesparking romance rumorswithKristin Cavallarilast July (theVery Cavallaristar, 36, denied the reports).
Hadid, 27, later welcomed daughterKhai Hadid Malik, 2, withZayn Malik, 30, before the pairsplitin 2021. More recently she’s beenon and offwithLeonardo DiCaprio, 48.
source: people.com
