Bachelorette’s Katie Thurston and John Hersey Seemingly Split After Less Than a Year of Dating: ‘We Aren’t Together’
21.06.2022 - 06:03
/ usmagazine.com
No more petals on this rose? After less than a year together, former Bachelorette Katie Thurston and John Hersey have seemingly called it quits.
“Statement: No, we aren’t together,” the reality star, 31, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Monday, June 20, likely in reference to her relationship with Hersey, 28.
Thurston originally sent Hersey, packing on week two of season 17, which aired in summer 2021. While she originally claimed the California native “was her type” after he walked out of the limo, she failed to give him a rose by the second ceremony.
The two eventually struck up a friendship post-show after running into each other unexpectedly in San Diego. Thurston was still in the midst of a long-distance relationship with season 17 winner Blake Moynes at the time.
“John is surfing on this exact beach — very, very randomly, a rose floats by in the water. And he’s like, ‘That’s incredibly strange.’ … Just a very strange occurrence,” the duo’s mutual friend Stephen Lovegrove recalled during a September 2021 episode on Us’ “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast. “He surfs, he goes home, we take photos, we get ice cream, we go home. And later that afternoon, John sees from Katie’s account, all these photos go up and realizes as he was surfing with this random rose floating by, he was literally 100 feet away from the Bachelorette, who he had just filmed this season [with]. It was such a random coincidence that we didn’t find out about till a long time later.”
During her trip, Thurston was also spotted at Duke’s in La Jolla, where Hersey was a bartender. As her season aired in summer 2021, fans began to speculate that the duo had started dating and by October of that year, Thurston and Moynes, 31, announced their split.
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