Connor Wood is heading to Dancing With the Stars this fall, and the timing has put his dating life back in the spotlight. He will dance with Rylee Arnold, return to Bumble on September 10 and give dating advice on the Bumble Bee Line, a public reset that makes the question around his off-screen life harder to ignore.
For fans who have followed Connor Wood online as Fibula, the curiosity is familiar. He is the voice behind the viral line, “I have purse,” cohosts Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast with Brooke Averick and has long been shipped with her by listeners who have treated the pair like a possible couple, even though neither has said they are anything more than close friends. Wood has never publicly been in a relationship, and he currently appears to be single.
That is why the attention has shifted again. Wood’s profile is rising because Dancing With the Stars, Season 35 Premiere airs on September 15 at 8/7c on ABC, and viewers are already scanning every detail around him for clues about what his life looks like away from the stage. The show adds a new audience to a personal story that has mostly played out in podcasts, social clips and fan speculation.
But there is a recent wrinkle that keeps the conversation from staying simple. Wood was most recently connected to Sally Carden, and rumors about them started circulating in 2025 after Hallie Batchelder posted a video of the two cuddling. In the clip, Wood kissed Carden’s forehead, and Batchelder captioned it, “Oop.” It was enough to set off a fresh round of guessing, but not enough to amount to a public confirmation of anything.
That is the line Wood has managed to hold so far. He is heading into a major television appearance with no public relationship attached to him, while the last visible sign of anything romantic remains a clipped social post that raised more questions than it answered. For now, the safest read is also the clearest one: Connor Wood is presenting as single, and that is exactly why the next two dates on his calendar matter so much.
