No rose left to give! Kaitlyn Bristowe opened up about her friendship with Chris Harrison — and why it stalled after she was offered the hosting gig for season 17 of The Bachelorette. “They offered me the position to come in and what the Bachelor franchise said was to mentor Katie [Thurston],” Bristowe, 37, said during the Tuesday, January 31, episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “[They said] I wouldn’t be replacing Chris.
Then all these articles started coming out, saying, ‘Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe replacing Chris Harrison.’ And so I messaged Chris probably about 10 times without him responding.
I just want him to know that I thought he was irreplaceable and I didn’t want to step on toes.” The Canada native explained that she “didn’t know” what her “role” would be, but rumors swirling of her replacing Harrison, 51, made her “feel icky” about the situation.
After running into him at Wells Adams and Sarah Hyland’s nuptials in August 2022, the Dancing With the Stars alum realized that things weren’t going to be the same.
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