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What the Bachelor in Paradise Stars Think About Peter Being the Next Bachelor


The wait is over, people: We finally know who the next Bachelor is. After weeks of speculation and predictions, ABC announced on Tuesday night that Peter Weber, a.k.a Pilot Pete, will be the one handing out roses come January. It’s a surprising choice, to say the least. While Weber definitely was a front-runner for next season, he wasn’t the front-runner. That was Mike Johnson, whose big smile and even bigger heart swooned fans during Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette. Even Derek Peth from Bachelor in Paradise seemed to have a strong shot for a while. (The mature way he handled Demi Burnett leaving him for her now-girlfriend, Kristian Haggerty, really impressed fans.) But no: Pilot Pete is the one. I wonder how many windmill jokes he’ll make next season.

We’ll find out in a few months, but until then a few cast members from Bachelor in Paradise, which just wrapped this week, are weighing in on Weber’s casting. Including Peth. “I wasn’t surprised it was Peter, but I was hopeful it would be Mike that was selected,” he tells Glamour. “I know Mike, so it’s obvious that’s a big reason there. I think he would have done an awesome job and everything. But not surprised, because Peter seems level-headed and he has a job, which is a new one for some of our Bachelors. So I’d say it’s an upgrade from some of the past ones.”

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John Paul Jones also mentioned Weber’s job when talking about his Bachelor-ship. “I think Peter is a very eligible Bachelor,” he says. “Professionally speaking, he definitely has his career cut out for him, and personally, I think he’s ready to settle down. I think America will really enjoy watching him fall in love again.”

Burnett, meanwhile, didn’t really have a stake in the race like Peth did. She’s close with all three front-runners (Peth, Johnson, and Weber) and would’ve been cool with any outcome. “I’m friends with Derek, I’m friends with Peter, I’m friends with Mike. I’m friends with all these guys,” she says. “So whoever was going to be picked as the next Bachelor, I have no choice but to stan, because I’m friends with all of them.”

Hannah Godwin, whose Paradise ended with a proposal from Dylan Barbour, is stanning Peter, too. “I think Peter’s gonna crush it,” she tells Glamour. Adds Barbour, “I really like Peter. I think ABC had a great crop of guys to pick from, and I think with Peter they’re going to get someone who is super upfront about their emotions and is going to be open to the experience. I’m excited for him.”

Weber’s season of The Bachelor will begin in January.



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Could Bachelor in Paradise’s Derek Peth Officiate Demi Burnett and Kristian Haggerty’s Wedding?


Demi: I adore him and I want him to find love no matter how that happens for him. I’m friends with Derek. I’m friends with Peter. I’m friends with Mike. I’m friends with all these guys. So whoever was going to be picked as the next Bachelor, I have no choice but to stan, because I’m friends with all of them.

Will you stay in touch with Derek after all this?

Demi: Of course! We talk to Derek all of the time! He’s great. He’s such a great guy.

Derek could officiate your wedding!

Demi: Derek, yes! How fucking ironic would that be?

He could do it with your dog, Kismet!

Kristian: Yes, Kismet!

So you guys aren’t living together at the moment, but you are living close to each other. What are you most excited about after this finale airs? What do you hope to do publicly since you’re such role models?

Demi: I am assuming I can speak for both of us, but we don’t know, we don’t. We don’t know what we’re doing. We’re taking it day by day, and we are finally going to be able to have a normal relationship where we can just go places, and of course we want to be involved in anything that would be supporting the community and really just helping anybody out. So we’re just taking it day by day and we’re going to figure it out along the way.

How would you like to see the franchise evolve after this? What can it do to continue to build on the major win I felt it achieved this season?

Demi: Again, I don’t know. I just…we just are two people who loved each other and they embraced that, so I think they’ll embrace anybody who comes on the show and it’ll just be more normalized, is my hope.

Do you think we’ll ever get a Bachelorette with all female contestants? Is that something you’d like to see?

Demi: I mean, of course. You know, it’s not something that I have experience…I don’t have the credentials to tell someone how to plan their TV program. I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I am open to seeing anything, and I think the rest of the world is at this point, is open to seeing anything too. So anything is possible, there’s no rules. Love is love. Retweet!



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Demi Burnett Showed One of the Hardest Parts About Coming Out on Bachelor in Paradise


Coming out as queer in your twenties is tough. I should know. Once those traditional gender dynamics are finally broken down, you then suffer through a growth period of learning what it’s like to date the same sex. It’s rare to see that time navigated in pop-culture, let alone on a reality show, but we actually got to see it play out on last night’s episode of Bachelor in Paradise.

It all started when Demi Burnett broke down crying on-camera over her struggles to show PDA with her girlfriend, Kristian Haggerty. “I’m getting there,” Burnett says of showing public affection with Haggerty. “I’m getting comfortable with it, but it’s taking me some time, and like, I feel so guilty because I feel bad for it taking time.” Earlier in the season, Burnett came out as queer on the show and invited the woman she fell in love with back home, Haggerty, to join her in paradise. Since then, the couple have become Bachelor Nation’s first same-sex couple featured on the show.

But, of course, any sort of “first” is ripe with teaching moments. Last night, Burnett expressed that she’s having some growing pains with her queerness. For one: She said she’s worried about Haggerty flirting with other women on the show. “Kristian is just flirty with girls, and it sucks,” Burnett says on-camera. “I hate seeing it! I feel like she’s more interested in them than me. It’s just getting to me. Like, I can’t… I can’t watch it. I don’t want to see that.”

But as Burnett unpacks the issue in her confessional interview, we uncover the real reason her girlfriend’s behavior was bothering her. “I don’t know if maybe she’s lacking physical touch from me, and so she’s going to get it from somewhere else, but I don’t think that that’s fair,” Burnett says. “It has everything to do with me not being comfortable with being gay around people.”

That’s when she breaks down. “I want to give her what she needs, but like, I’m still uncomfortable with it, because I don’t want people to be like, ‘That’s weird.’ And I don’t want people to like, stare and be like, ‘Oh my god, they’re kissing.'”



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Every ‘Bachelor’ Star Who’s Competed on ‘Dancing With the Stars’


First comes love, then comes a Neil Lane engagement ring, then comes…a spot on Dancing With the Stars? That seems to be the pattern for many fan favorites from Bachelor Nation, including the most recent Bachelorette, Hannah Brown.

The 24-year-old reality star was recently confirmed as part of the season-28 cast, and this couldn’t be a better time for a fresh start. The Alabama native is newly single after ending her engagement to Jed Wyatt upon learning that he was allegedly seriously dating another woman up until the day he joined The Bachelorette. Her rekindled flame with runner-up Tyler Cameron also seems to have fizzled out now that the model has started spending time with Gigi Hadid. Maybe Brown will find love on the dance floor?

Whatever happens, it’s her turn to shine. But she certainly has big shoes to fill—memorable stars from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette franchise have shimmied in sequins long before her time. Read on to see every star from Bachelor Nation who’s competed for the mirror ball trophy, below.



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Who Is Kristian Haggerty, Demi Burnett’s Partner on Bachelor in Paradise?


If you thought Blake Horstmann’s love triangle (or actually, pentagon) was going to be the most talked-about storyline from this season of Bachelor in Paradise, think again.

Warning: Major spoilers ahead. If you don’t want to find out who Demi is dating on Bachelor in Paradise, it’s time to take a moment and say your goodbyes.

OK, let’s move on: Fan favorite Demi Burnett is about to make Bachelor history for being in the franchise’s first-ever same-sex relationship.

“I have kind of been seeing someone,” Demi tells former Bachelorette Hannah Brown during the premiere episode of season six. “Of course, plot twist, it happens to be a woman. It’s not something I need to label, so I feel like I don’t have to proclaim that I’m gay, I’m straight, I’m bisexual, I’m this. I just like who I like. It doesn’t matter who or what you are, it’s the person.”

Fans first learned of the 24-year-old’s relationship with a woman after ABC released this season’s trailer, which showed Demi kissing another woman. “I know that I love this girl. I’m just so happy that I found her,” she said in the clip. “I can definitely picture being with her for the rest of my life.”

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But it’s been unclear who she’s referring to. So, we did a bit of digging to find out: The mystery woman that Demi was dating before Paradise is named Kristian Haggerty.

If you don’t recognize her, it’s probably because she’s never been on a Bachelor show before. That’s yet another first for Bachelor Nation: Instead of leaving the show to pursue her relationship with Kristian, Demi brings Kristian to Paradise.



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Demi Burnett Came Out on ‘Bachelor in Paradise,’ and It Wasn’t a Total Disaster


Demi also came out to Tayshia Adams last night, and Tayshia offered, “I hate that you feel you have to hide behind such a strong shield and not be who you really want to be.” Obviously, we should be at a place where queer people shouldn’t have to worry about straight people blanching at the notion of same-sex love—but clearly, we’re not, and Demi was justified in being nervous to open up.

The show’s host, Chris Harrison spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about Demi’s storyline and admitted, “I’m not exactly sure how we would have embraced Demi’s situation in year’s past.” He added, “I am not so naïve as to think that dealing with a same-sex relationship is going to be this happy rainbow conversation and all of America is going to rejoice.” But ultimately, Harrison said they’ve “leaned on” the queer producers behind-the-camera to tell the story “properly.”

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“I felt that I owed it to them and to everybody else in that community to do this right and to make it respectable,” he said. “To tell this story properly in their honor. I leaned on them and we all leaned on them to make sure they felt like this was being fairly and respectfully portrayed.”

In the episode, Demi also opened up to Derek Peth, who she’s been casually seeing on Paradise, about the woman she’s been dating—and still has feelings for—back home. He, too, happily surprised me. He never made any gross or reductive comments, something I always fear in telling straight men that I date women. Instead, he was so purely human in his response, fearing that Demi’s heart was somewhere else, regardless of the gender of that other person.

Peth asked, “How can you both consider that and me simultaneously? And have this be just as meaningful, if not, you know, potentially more?” Any BiP love triangle would’ve begged the same question. Derek’s no hero for treating a queer person like a person, but he did do his part in normalizing queerness on this show.

So far, BiP is nailing Demi’s storyline. However, I have to say I’d be interested to see what the reactions from both male and female contestants would’ve looked like had a man come out as bisexual on the show. Regardless, it’s a start—and I can’t wait for Demi’s girlfriend to show up and burn this heterosexual island to the ground.



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