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Matthew Lawrence he couldn’t help but go over his new girlfriend Chili! The Boy meets the world The star, 42, looked head over heels in love as he opened up about his romance with the TLC profile, 51, calling her “very special.” “My life is in full bloom right now,” he said ET on Friday, March 3. “I got to spend time with an amazing woman like Chilli. I have never experienced that kind of relationship before. She is really, really special. “
The star went on to say that he is in awe of Chilli’s “morals and values” and that they are more alike than they first realised. “It’s weird, you know, we have similar upbringings. We have similar families. There are things like that that you wouldn’t necessarily think between us and it really works,” explained Mata.
He also wanted to meet Chilli’s family and the singer met his own, saying that everything went smoothly. As for starting their own family, Mata poured the tea for him ET, admits, “That’s the plan, that’s what he was trying to do.” Chilli is already the mother of a 25-year-old son Through from her previous relationship Dallas Austin.
The actor also revealed how the pair first met, revealing that they ended up chatting when a snowstorm put them on the same plane. “It was really the flight that was talking and then afterwards saying, ‘Hey, you know what? We’ll keep in touch,’ and it almost happened,” Mata explained. “Literally an hour before the flight took off, [the airline] He said, ‘Okay, we got you on this plane. You have to go.”
Matthew and Chilli took their romance public in January after being linked in August 2022 when they were spotted hanging out on a beach together in Hawaii. At the time, TMZ reporting that the sea cow was only platonic, and that nothing was brewing at this time. A source told the outlet that Chilli was on the tropical island to do a show and “Mata and some friends came to watch.” According to the insider, the couple were just “friends” and decided to go out after the concert ended.
The beach hangover came six months after the news that Mata had split from his wife of three years, Dancing with the Stars pro Cheryl Burke. Cheryl appeared to throw shade at her husband and Chilli just hours after they confirmed they were “special”. “That was fast,” she wrote on her Instagram story.
She and Mata tied the knot in May 2019 after being engaged for a year. According to the divorce documents received Hollywood lifeCheryl listed their separation date as January 7, 2022 citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason.
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