While Andy Baldwin definitely found quite a few fans through his appearance on The Bachelor, some viewers were put off by one major element of his personality.

The charitable might call it a certain level of personal warmth that manifested itself through a lot of physical affection. The less charitable might call it being handsy.

Either way, for much of the show, Andy spent a lot of time up very close and personal with the ladies.

That is what makes it hard to be absolutely certain how to interpret recent paparazzi photographs and video footage that has just surfaced of Andy and a woman who is not former fiancée but still-girlfriend Tessa Horst.

On Monday, TMZ posted footage of Andy getting very close with Miss Iran 2005, Sepideh Haftgoli, in a Los Angeles park. JustJared also published pictures of the two with arms around one another and engaging in what appears to be fairly flirty behavior.

Both sites indicate this means Andy and Tessa have split, and it certainly could.

But again, Andy's concept of personal space seems to be a little different than most peoples', so maybe he's found a platonic friend in Sepideh who shares the same quirk.

Additionally, when Tessa and Andy announced the end of their engagement, but said they would continue to date, they did not seem to state definitively that theirs would be an exclusive arrangement. Who knows?  Maybe they are both open to dating others while still seeing how things go between the two of them. Maybe Tessa is exploring other options as well, just without attracting the same number of cameras that Andy seems to. 

So once again, The Bachelor fans who got drawn into the story about Andy and Tessa will be left to draw their own conclusions about what this new development could potentially mean for the couple, at least until we find out more from the couple themselves.

What do you think? Is this much ado about not much? Do you still believe that Andy and Tessa are in love and working it out? Or do you agree that this must mean that Andy and Tessa are finally kaput? Leave your thoughts on this latest The Bachelor development in the comments below.


- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Sources: TMZ, JustJared.com
(Image courtesy of JustJared.com)