Dancing with the Stars pro dancer Rylee Arnold has confirmed her relationship with USC football player Walker Lyons. The 19-year-old posted photos of herself with her new boyfriend on Instagram, calling it a “hard launch.”
Rylee Arnold Confirms Relationship with Walker Lyons
On Sunday, Arnold took to Instagram to share several photos from a University of Southern California Trojans football game. In the first shot, she can be seen embracing Lyons on the field after the Trojans beat the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Saturday night. In another picture, she smiles from the stands.
Arnold attended the game with her older sister Brynley and brother-in-law Donny McGinnis. Other shots from her post show her and Lyons hugging. The dancer wrote in the post’s caption, “Is this a hard launch??”
The comments are full of excited reactions from Arnold’s friends, including her Season 33 celebrity partner Stephen Nedoroscik, who wrote, “OHHHH SHOOT SHE DID IT GO RYLEE.” Fellow pro Emma Slater wrote, “ITS HAPPENING PEOPLE STAY CALM!!!!!!!!”
Ezra Sosa, who is rumored to have told Arnold’s former DWTS partner Harry Jowsey to stay away from her during a recent taping of the show, wrote, “you deserve the best, and he treats like the queen you are. so happy for you.”
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Arnold Teased the Romance on TikTok
Earlier this month, Arnold teased in a TikTok video that she had gone on a date with someone she really liked. She shared that they had hung out two nights in a row. Arnold said this special someone (presumably Lyons) was “so easy to talk to.”
She called him “so sweet and humble,” adding that she was “really curious to see how this all pans out.” Arnold also teased that this date has “a really busy schedule just like me,” but they happen to be free at the same times.
On Sunday, Arnold posted on Instagram stories that she and Lyons went to Disneyland together. They appeared to go with Arnold’s family, as her niece Sage (daughter of former DWTS pro Lindsay Arnold) could be seen in a photo with the couple.
According to the USC Trojans website, Lyons is a freshman at the school who is originally from Folsom, California. His position on the team is tight end, and he wears the number 85. It appears that Lyons is Mormon like Arnold’s family, as he served a mission in Norway before college.
