Leave it to the fans in Philadelphia to throw the WWE star Nikki Bella is off her game enough to appear to confirm what we already know – that she’s dating the Eagles quarterback Cooper DeJean.
Nikki, 42, was in Philly on Raw on Tuesday, February 2, where she held a segment with the twins. Brie Garcia. At first, Nikki thought the crowd was bullying her.
“Is that because the Eagles are not going to the Super Bowl or something?” he asked.
“Actually I think they say Coop,” Brie replied.
After looking frustrated for a moment, Nikki replied, “Can you blame a girl for good taste? I mean, Pro Bowl, kid.”
Nikki’s public confirmation that she and DeJean, 22, are an item came a month later, a source told. Us Weekly in January that he “went to a few games” for the Eagles. (DeJean, meanwhile, has not spoken publicly about the alleged relationship.)
“They stayed outside,” said the insider at the time. “He’s having fun and enjoying being alone.”
The source also explained that when Nikki is “not on the road, she is at home with her son.”
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Nikki welcomed her son, Matteo, in 2020 and earlier Dancing with the Stars partner Artem Chigvintsev. The couple married in 2022 before Nikki filed for divorce two years later, following Chigvintsev’s arrest for domestic violence. The two were eventually served with restraining orders against each other and no charges were filed. They finalized their divorce in 2025.
Nikki opened her chest Us in January 2025 about his private life, saying that he did not want a relationship.
“I really took the time to fall in love with myself,” he said Us. “I have days where I start focusing more on myself and taking care of myself and I just know who I am in my 40s. I feel like I have a new time to look at, and I can choose the way I want to be again [where to] Drunk it.”
By the fall of 2025, dating rumors had begun, fueled by Nikki attending an Eagles game and sharing a video on Instagram featuring her standing next to DeJean’s locker.
“I am so blessed with the people around me, friends new and old, who make life special and fun,” she wrote in the caption.
Nikki then spoke out against fans jumping to conclusions about her relationship with a man 20 years her junior.
“It’s crazy because I haven’t really been touched or done anything in so long,” Nikki told Brie on the December 2025 episode of their SiriusXM podcast “The Nikki & Brie Show”. “It’s funny when people call me a whore when it’s been a long time since I’ve been intimate, let alone kissing.”
Nikki added, “I haven’t kissed someone in a long time. It’s like, crazy. I was thinking about this last night: ‘Can I kiss?’ Do you know how long it’s been? I mean, I hope so [I still do]. I’m going to adjust my pillow to make sure I still get it.”
