Bobby Flay says he loves Kristin Cavallari’s ‘energy’ despite DM rejection

Bobby Flay had thing but awesome things to opportunity astir pal Kristin Cavallari aft going viral for their “undeniable” chemistry.

The Food Network star, 59, joined Cavallari, 37, connected her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast past period to talk his caller cookbook, “Chapter One.” However, nan question and reply quickly steered from cooking proposal to their making love lives — with nan cook revealing he erstwhile slid into Cavallari’s DMs.

Although nan “Hills” prima wasn’t willing then, listeners encouraged her to springiness nan “charming” cook a changeable — which Flay insists isn’t gonna happen.

“I mean, location wasn’t really overmuch there,” he told People pinch a laughter connected Thursday.

“Kristin and I person been friends for a agelong time, and truthful I called her and I was like, ‘I want to do your podcast. I deliberation it’ll beryllium fun.’”

Flay explained that Cavallari’s podcast opened him up to a different demographic of listeners compared to “some of nan different ones that [he] was doing, which are really conscionable fundamentally based connected food.”

“I emotion her energy, and I besides really respect her arsenic a businesswoman,” he said of nan “Laguna Beach” star.

“She’s fun. She’s a baller, she’s a mom, she’s sewage 3 kids,” he continued. “She runs her jewelry business, she runs her podcast business, she runs her full Kristin Cavallari life and she does it incredibly well.”

During Flay’s quality connected Cavallari’s podcast, he admitted he erstwhile asked her retired for meal — but insisted it was meant to beryllium a friends meet-up aft she rejected him.

“I DMed you and I said to you … ‘I’m going to beryllium successful Nashville for 1 night, tin I return you to dinner?’” Flay recalled. “And you virtually said thing to maine like, ‘I’m already making love somebody.’”

Although Cavallari said she was “burnt retired connected dating” astatine nan time, Flay stuck to his story.

“No, you said, ‘I’ve already started seeing somebody’! And I said, ‘I conscionable want to spell to meal pinch you,’” he replied, laughing.

Cavallari called nan misunderstanding a “foot-in-mouth” moment, admitting she shouldn’t person assumed Flay had romanticist intentions.

“I deliberation nan ‘take you to dinner’ point is much wherever it was like, ‘Oh, that seems for illustration a date,’” she explained.

It’s unclear erstwhile nan mix-up occurred. However, nan brace ended up going to meal “a fewer months ago” and had “the champion time.”

Flay split from woman Christina Pérez, 43, successful June after 3 years of dating. Meanwhile, Cavallari precocious broke up with her 24-year-old beau, Mark Estes.

Elsewhere during nan episode, nan thrice-divorced cook admitted he is not willing successful getting joined again but would emotion to find a “life partner.”

However, he is hesitant to “start making love again” arsenic he doesn’t “want to spell connected nan [dating] apps” and person his emotion life go “a nationalist thing.”

“I’m a very backstage personification pinch my backstage life,” he said. “Other group for illustration to talk astir my backstage life, I don’t for illustration to talk astir it because nan remainder of my life is truthful public, because I’ve been connected tv fundamentally my full big life. So I for illustration keeping arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin of my backstage life to myself.”

Cavallari, for her part, besides has very circumstantial requirements for her adjacent partner: a vasectomy.