Two years after handing out roses, former Bachelorette Katie Thurston is on the lookout for love again on reality TV — and this time, she knows evidently that one of the vital males will not be there “for the right reasons” on the appropriately titled FBoy Island.
“This time round could be very other as a result of I’ve had my enjoy, which additionally way not handiest can people be on the show for their own experience, however then maybe they may well be going after me for — dare I say, the fallacious reasons — as a result of I have a platform now,” the 32-year-old reality TV persona exclusively advised Us Weekly.
While Katie is well-versed in how filming works after appearing on Matt James‘ season 25 of The Bachelor and starring because the season 17 Bachelorette, she instructed Us that “extra insecurities had been present” for her third stint in entrance of the cameras. “Because I have gone through it and I don’t know who’s attempting to use me to get to the top in and enjoy that five minutes of repute or no matter,” she endured.
Bachelor Nation watched Katie get engaged to Blake Moynes right through the 2021 finale of The Bachelorette. The twosome break up two months after the finale aired.
“We lived in numerous international locations all over the pandemic. I feel we were simply already up in opposition to a lot,” Katie told Us when asked what she discovered from the failed engagement. “So you just got to find any individual who’s prepared to put in the paintings. And that’s no longer even to him or myself. It’s just in general, long-distance is difficult and maybe now not the best choice for someone like me who really desires a hands-on, in-person relationship.”
Fans will see Katie and Blake’s first conversation since their breakup when she makes a cameo on an upcoming episode of Bachelor in Paradise.
“I used to be very fearful over the entirety else simply to see Blake. … You have to tune in and in finding out [where we stand now]. I did not too long ago proportion despite the fact that [that] I forgot to stop sharing my Uber rides with him. For the previous two years, he’s been getting the notifications, so we’re a minimum of on talking terms,” she told Us. “And I discovered that out and have since became that off.”
Katie went on to date one among her other contestants — John Hersey — debuting their romance weeks after information broke that she and Blake were over. They split more than a year in the past, however she not too long ago heard from him. “My girlfriend who’s in Washington happened to see him on the courting app. So throughout the grapevine he came upon that I knew that and he was once like, ‘Yeah, I was for your place of birth and sought after to say hello and allow you to know.’ And then I simply didn’t respond. But there’s no dangerous blood, we’re just right,” she said.
She informed Us that her biggest takeaway from the months-long romance was “don’t exhausting release too early.”
“When you’re in this type of public spotlight, I think you do have to stay issues a bit closer to your middle and private and secure, perhaps, longer because as amusing as it's to be public within the happy moments, it’s in point of fact arduous to go through a public breakup,” she stated.
So, why did Katie want to give in search of love on reality TV another shot to begin with?
“There were such a lot of different [reasons]. I imply, Nikki Glaser being the host, clearly, it was a huge pull for me as any individual who’s chasing my very own comedic dreams. I watched season 2 when I used to be invited and said, ‘OK, properly let’s see what this show’s about.’ And gazing it, it was so hilarious — satirical, almost — that it was simply this type of other revel in from my Bachelor experience and I was looking for something a bit more lighthearted,” she instructed Us. “So yeah, there’s an opportunity I fall in love, there’s an opportunity I win money, there’s a chance I make new girlfriends. It was once just a win-win win all the method round.”
Katie stars alongside style Hali Okeowo and influencer Daniella Grace as they date quite a lot of “FBoys” and “nice guys” who could also be in it for the $100,000 prize. If the leads pick a “great man,” they split the cash and if they pick an “FBoy,” he has the option to keep the money for himself or opt to proportion.
“It’s very, very interesting to navigate because you assume you recognize a man after which later on there’s a disclose and you then’re, like, mind blown,” Katie advised Us, adding that she beloved operating with Hali and Danielle. “It felt like nearly on a daily basis we had been writing the names of the blokes on those little scraps of paper and just shuffling them around of who we were for sure has to be an FBoy. There were those who were on the fence and as people were given eradicated, we’re attempting to do the maths, ‘OK, how many FBoys are left?’ Which even then we were incorrect. So every day we really are simply operating together and talking about our personal reports with the blokes.”
While there’s a recreation show component of the display, Katie instructed Us that the relationship facet of the show in reality felt extra actual than The Bachelorette.
“On Bachelor and Bachelorette, it’s very quick. You’re nearly at all times taking a look over your shoulder expecting to get snagged away. During FBoy Island, I felt like I were given to have so much uninterrupted quality time with those guys even on group periods the place I'd just disregard, like, 20, 25, half-hour later, and then after all another guy’s coming. I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, there’s different guys right here,'” she said. “It used to be this kind of common revel in in an excessively un-normal [atmosphere]. There wasn’t a lot of out of doors interference.”
As a new professional on the topic, Us asked Katie how many of her Bachelorette contestants she now believes were “FBoys.”
“Oh gosh, I'd say seventy five percent,” she admitted with fun. “They changed after the show. Maybe, they came in as a pleasing guy — things exchange.”
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While she didn’t identify names for the “FBoys,” Katie put Thomas Jacobs in the 25 p.c of “great guys” regardless of his villain edit on the show. “That’s the crazy factor about reality TV — at the end of the day, it’s all only a show and in the true global we are who we are,” she concluded.
FBoy Island season Three premieres on The CW Monday, October 16, at Eight p.m. ET.
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