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.
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