Bachelorette’s Gabby Windey Reveals She Once Slid Into Ben Higgins’ DMs: ‘I Need to Tell Everybody’
usmagazine.comWhat could have been? Before her stint as the Bachelorette, Gabby Windey tried to pursue another member of Bachelor Nation.“I know Ben Higgins is somewhere on the premises and I need to tell everybody that I slid into his DMs,” Windey, 32, said during a teaser for her joint interview with Rachel Recchia on Ashley Iaconetti’s “Almost Famous” podcast. “I’ve got to get it off my chest.”The 35-year-old Bachelor in Paradise alum — who helms her “Almost Famous” podcast with former Bachelor Higgins — had previewed the interview and Windey’s confession via her Instagram Story on Saturday, May 20.The season 19 co-Bachelorettes and Iaconetti were among the reality TV stars who reunited over the weekend in California.“Wonderful weekend reconnecting with old friends and making new ones,” former show host Chris Harrison wrote via his Instagram Stories on Saturday. “And recording a few podcasts … @iheartradio @themostdramaticpodever.”Harrison, 51, uploaded footage of himself enjoying a meal with fiancée Lauren Zima, Higgins, 34, Iaconetti, Windey, Recchia, 27, Clare Crawley and husband Ryan Dawkins, Zach Shallcross and fiancée Kaity Biggar, and Andrew Firestone.Iaconetti and Higgins, for their part, welcomed the Dancing With the Stars alum, Recchia and Crawley, 42, to film episodes of their podcast, though no further details — including the Indiana native’s reaction to Windey’s DM reveal — have been shared.
The former Denver Broncos cheerleader also did not reveal when she messaged Higgins.Windey and Recchia served as the leads of The Bachelorette in 2022.
They got engaged to Erich Schwer and Tino Franco, respectively, but both couples have since called it quits.“I do truly think it was compatibility.
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