Rylee Arnold Gifts Boyfriend Walker Lyons a Christmas Sweater Covered in Her Face (and His Reaction Is Priceless)
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"Walker got his sweatshirt 😂❤️," the 'Dancing with the Stars' pro wrote alongside a clip of Lyons unwrapping his gift
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Rylee Arnold's boyfriend Walker Lyons holds up his new Christmas sweater on Dec. 24, 2024Rylee Arnold's boyfriend is coming face-to-face with the perfect gift!
On Thursday, Dec. 26, the Dancing with the Stars pro, 19, shared a clip to her Instagram Stories of boyfriend Walker Lyons unwrapping her Christmas present to him before he caught a glimpse of the memorable gift: a holiday sweater with his girlfriend's face printed all over it!
The clip began with Lyons — the USC football player who Arnold confirmed a romance with in October — saying "I hope it's what I think it is."
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Walker Lyons holds up his Christmas sweater on Dec. 26, 2024After unwrapping the gift and opening the box that contained the sweater, Lyons' face lit up as he began to unfold the article of clothing and held it up to the camera. The green sweater featured several photos of Arnold's face — photoshopped with a Santa hat on her head and an all-over snowflake print.
"That's a great picture," she said. "Aw, so cute!"
Lyons then joked that he'd wear the top ahead of a game, as he tossed it on for the first time and was told it looks "great."
"Walker got his sweatshirt 😂❤️," Arnold wrote over the clip.
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Walker Lyons displays his Christmas sweater from Rylee Arnold on Dec. 26, 2024Earlier this week, Arnold revealed on the Christmas episode of The Squeeze podcast that she and her boyfriend met thanks to an Uber drive in Los Angeles — when the "really nice lady" driving her encouraged her to get in touch with her "nephew playing USC football," as she felt they'd "really get along."
"I was like, okay, trusted this girl," Arnold said. "I looked him up, and I was like, 'Okay, he's cute.' So at that point, I was, like, too scared to really do anything about it, and so I was just kind of like put it on my back pocket."
The dancer, who "didn't really have a desire to get into a relationship," ended up getting sent a TikTok video from her sister who suggested she reach out to Lyons. "I was like, 'You guys are gonna die right now. Like, I literally was in his aunt's Uber a week ago,' and they're like, 'Riley, like, follow him. Now, follow him now,'" she said. "And then come to know that my brother-in-law is actually friends with his best friend's dad, and so there's a connection there."
"We have a crazy amount of mutuals so the fact we hadn't met before is kind of crazy, but I think we met at the most perfect time in both of our lives," she added, noting that things took off when she followed him on Instagram.
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The pair then went Instagram official back in October, and a month later, the dancer revealed that her boyfriend was "being such a trooper" after going from "not being exposed to things like this" to suddenly being in the limelight.
"He's so supportive of me and just so kind to me all the time," she said after a Nov. 12 taping of DWTS. "And it's so nice and refreshing to be around and I just think he's the best and he's taking everything like a champ."
