How Becca Got on 'The Bachelor'
It apparently took years for Becca Kufrin to make it onto the Bachelor (and get publicly dumped by former race car driver and current fan of Scottsdale, Arizona, Arie Luyendyk Jr.). As Kufrin told Stassi Schroeder on the Vanderpump Rules star's podcast, she applied twice before finally getting onto the show for Arie's season.
"It actually started years ago," Kufrin said. "Two of my coworkers had applied for me and I got this random call one day from this guy named Scott in casting and I thought it was a joke at first. And I went to work and my two coworkers, I could hear them giggling next to me. They were like, 'Oh, haha, that was us.'"
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Kufin says she was going to go through with applying then and there, but fate intervened when she ran into her ex-boyfriend at the bar. Just like what happened in the final few episodes of her stint on Arie's season, only, you know, this time it wasn't staged by a team of producers hell-bent on making the world burn if it would make for good TV.
But when Kufrin and her boyfriend broke up in 2016, she and a friend discussed the show again while sitting on a cliff, overlooking a lake (as one does). Her friend turned to her and said, "Let’s just sign you up right now. Let’s just see what happens."
Well, well, well, and did we all certainly see what happened! I didn't take very many math classes in college, but if I'm doing my counting right, it seems as though, had Kufrin gone through and applied the first time around, she could've dodged the Arie bullet altogether.
So whose season could she have been on? Assuming Kufrin got her first call in 2015 or 2016, she probably would have wound up dating either Chris Soules or, *swoons* Ben Higgins. Sure they both ended their own engagements. But did you watch that on TV? No! Because they aren't monsters!
But then again, if Kufrin didn't go forth and apply when she did, she wouldn't be our next bachelorette, or be engaged (as she reportedly is now).
So there you have it. That's how Kufrin slowly but surely did the damn thing. Are we ready to hear that phrase 10 times a week for the next few months? Haha. No! We're not.
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