Katie Thurston is announcing good-bye to “FBoys” after discovering her fit on FBoy Island.
Katie, 32, used to be left to make a choice from Vince Xu and Benedict Polizzi all the way through the season 3 finale, which aired on The CW on Friday, December 8, choosing Vince.
Since Vince, 31, got here on FBoy Island as a “nice guy,” he and Katie were given to separate the $100,000 prize fund. (“FBoys” like Benedict, 33, may thieve all of the jackpot for themselves, regardless that the comic didn't plan to had he received.)
“I just wanted to let you know that I definitely found love. And I love you, Vince,” Katie gushed within the Friday episode sooner than Vince known as the instant a “dream come true.”
After the episode aired, each Katie and Vince took to social media to tease the place their romance recently stands.
“To @vincexu — I’m thankful our paths continued to cross and that you are now part of a chapter I’ll never forget,” she wrote by the use of Instagram on Friday night time, sharing selfies of the pair. “Glad we finally experienced those bottomless mimosas we dreamt about while on the island. 🥂.”
Vince responded with a trio of center emojis sooner than reposting the picture onto his Instagram Tale. The legal professional additionally posted a fortune cookie message that learn, “You will find good fortune in love” in a next Tale slide. (Katie posted the similar fortune cookie a number of hours previous with a thriller guy within the background.)
Katie, who up to now starred on The Bachelorette season 17, used to be introduced as one of the crucial FBoy Island season 3 leads in July. She used to be joined by way of Hali Okeowo and Daniella Grace, who ended up opting for Mercedes Knox and Christian Love, respectively. Katie, Hali, 28, and Daniella, 33, waded via a pool of unidentified “nice guys” and “FBoys” all season lengthy.
Katie sparked rapid connections with Vince, who used to be in short engaged to school weigh down Yurika Yoneda on Top Video’s The One That Were given Away, and Marco Delvecchio at the display. Vince fell head over heels in love with Katie (regardless of blending up the identify of her cherished cat, Tommy) early on within the procedure whilst she weighed her choices. She used to be pleasantly shocked when Benedict, the runner-up from FBoy Island season 2, confirmed up past due to win her center.
Whilst it used to be evident to Katie that Vince used to be a “nice guy,” she used to be surprised to be informed that Benedict used to be an “FBoy.” Benedict, in the meantime, had proclaimed that he would cut up the cash with Katie as a result of he had authentic emotions for her.
Katie’s fact TV profession started in 2020 when she seemed on Matt James’ season of The Bachelor. She become the Bachelorette twelve months later and were given engaged to Blake Moynes. Katie and Blake, 33, in the end known as it quits sooner than she in short moved on together with her former contestant John Hersey. FBoy Island marked her first foray again into relationship after the cut up.
“There were so many different [reasons I signed up for this],” Katie solely instructed Us Weekly in October. “I watched season 2 when I was invited and said, ‘OK, well let’s see what this show’s about.’ And watching it, it was so hilarious — satirical, almost — that it was just such a different experience from my Bachelor experience and I was looking for something a little more lighthearted.”
She added: “Yeah, there’s a chance I fall in love, there’s a chance I win money, there’s a chance I make new girlfriends. It was just a win-win-win all the way around.”
When Katie were given to the set, she discovered that she had far more “uninterrupted quality time” together with her suitors than she had on each The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
“I would just forget, like, 20, 25, 30 minutes later, and then finally another guy’s coming. I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, there’s other guys here,’” she quipped to Us. “It was such a normal experience in a very un-normal [environment]. There wasn’t a lot of outside interference.”