Tarek El Moussais learning aboutChristina Haack’s new relationship at the same time as the former couple’s fans.
Haack, 38, confirmed on Thursday that she has been secretly dating the Austin-based realtor Joshua Hall for months and their relationship status was news to her ex El Moussa.
“We don’t know their situation. We’re kind of just finding out too and just learning,” theFlip or Flopstar, 38, told PEOPLE of Haack’s romance with Hall on Thursday at the JBL True Summer Campaign.
But while El Moussa may not have known his ex and Joshua were dating, the new man in Haack’s life is not a complete stranger to her former husband.
El Moussa’s fiancée,Selling Sunsetrealtor Heather Rae Young, has a surprising connection to Joshua and the betrothed pair have even met him a number of times!
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Joshua is the brother of one of Young’s friends, Jessica Hall, Young confirmed to PEOPLE at the event which was kick-off celebrating a return to Live Music and a donation to the National Independent Venue Association’s #SaveOurStages initiative.
“It is true. My girlfriend Jessica, we’ve been friends for like over 10 years and it’s just a fluke,” Young told PEOPLE. “You know, it was nothing that was planned. It just happened.”
Young added that she and El Moussa have only met Joshua “a few times,” but it “seems like” the realtor and Haack are happy together.
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A source shared at the time: “They recently started dating each other and it was an immediate, real connection. They’ve enjoyed getting to know each other one-on-one without outside noise.”
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It is the star’s first public relationship since her September split withAnt Anstead, her husband of less than two years.
Christina Haack, Joshua Hall.Christina Haack/Instagram
The second photo is a selfie of the new couple smiling with their foreheads touching — Haack pulling Joshua in close with a hand on his neck.
News of Haack’s new beau came less than two weeks after PEOPLE confirmed that Ansteadis dating Renée Zellweger.
source: people.com
