Emily Maynard dating NFL star Jeremy

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Emily Maynard, who recently split from "The Bachelor" star Brad Womack, is now dating Carolina Panthers tight end Jeremy Shockey, Us Weekly reported Wednesday.

"They were set up on a blind date," a source told the celebrity magazine.

"They've been out five times. Emily thinks Jeremy is nice, but she's just having fun," the source added.

The NFL player, 31, recently hinted that thoughts of love were on his mind in a Twitter message this week quoting Aristotle.

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies," he tweeted Monday.

Earlier this year, the southern belle from Charlotte, N.C., beat out the bevy of single ladies looking for love on season 15 of the ABC reality show.
Womack, 38, proposed to Maynard, 25, on the last episode of the show and the Austin, Tex.-based bar owner declared he had found his true soul mate.

But Maynard, who has a child from a previous relationship with the late NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, eventually dumped Womack due to the strain of their long-distance relationship.

"I just doubted he was still gonna want to be with me," she said about her doubts regarding Womack's commitment-level.


(nypost.com)