Holm,
33, and Luyendyk Jr., 35, made it to the final two on Emily Maynard‘s
season of The
Bachelorette in 2012. Maynard ultimately chose Holm, though
they broke off their engagement months later.
Holm
and Luyendyk Jr. maintained a strong friendship, though it appeared to
have fizzled in recent years — and now, it’s evident that the two men had some
sort of falling out.
After
ABC officially announced Luyendyk Jr. as the next Bachelor on Thursday, Holm
voiced his displeasure via Twitter.
“Oh
the stories I could tell…” he wrote, adding that he would “rather see a double
bachelor” in response to a tweet from franchise creator Mike Fleiss
claiming this was “by far the most positive reaction” they’ve ever had in
announcing the show’s new lead.
In
a follow-up tweet, Holm added that he “stopped being friends with [Luyendyk
Jr.] years ago because he’s disgusting.” (From an article at People.com, read it here.)
None of the distinguished gentlemen who make up the fraternity of ex-Bachelor contestants are choirboys; in fact word on the street is that many of them have gleefully leveraged their reality TV fame to hook up with as many pretty young women as possible. Rumors about Jef and Arie have been out there for years. Did Bach producers know before casting Arie? Do they care? Arie turns 36 in a couple of weeks, the same age as Nick. What will his contestant pool look like? Nick's cast included women as young as 23; the oldest was Rachel, who was 31. (And, at 31, Rachel chose the oldest man on her season. Bryan is 37.) Will Arie's cast also skew young? Will a broken-hearted/pissed-off ex-girlfriend show up to torment our Bachelor, similar to the woman who claimed to have been DeMario's ex? Will all of this play out in the tabloids, as predicted by Reality Steve as soon as Arie's name was announced? Probably to all of the above. As I said, it's juicy.
Friday afternoon, update #2: More info about how we got to this point of Arie yes, Peter no, at least for now. From People.com; read the article here.
“Peter was absolutely in discussion. He sort of alluded to
that as well. I think at this point in his life, the breakup with Rachel was
still very raw. Sometimes you move on very quickly, sometimes you don’t. I
think that, for him, there were still residual feelings there, and it was a
very real breakup,” Robert Mills, ABC’s Senior Vice President of Alternative
Series, Specials & Late-Night Programming, told Entertainment
Tonight.
…“I think the finale, when that aired and everything after
that was also hard on Peter. I think he just didn’t know. I think Peter
probably would have done it and been an amazing Bachelor, but I also don’t know
if he, himself, knew if this was the time when he was ready to really do this
100 percent,” added Mills, who said Kraus wasn’t “100 percent ready.”
Still, like Luyendyk Jr., it’s possible that the Wisconsin
native, who runs a personal training company in Madison, Wisconsin, could
have his second shot at finding happily ever after on an ABC reality series
down the road.
“I think we’ll always be in touch with Peter, and there
might be a time. … It might be a year from now, when it’s better for him,” said
Mills. “It was all about timing. If Arie wasn’t ready, we would have looked at
him, but we want it to feel right. Peter was an incredible fan favorite, which
I think was great, but I also think the double-edged sword with that is, if
it’s not the season that the fans want, which, you know, might have been if
Peter might not have been ready to commit 100 percent, that’s also
disappointing, and it would have been disappointing for Peter too.”
Following his appearance on The Bachelorette,
Kraus thought he would be cast for the role of Bachelor “up until early this
week,” a source close to the situation told PEOPLE
“Peter got an indication yesterday that a new Bachelor was
going to be announced and that it wasn’t him,” the source said Kraus. “But
he had no idea who it was or that it was specifically Arie.”
Thursday afternoon, update #1: It's been a wild day in Bachelor Nation. Now Peter has released a statement on Instagram:
Original post:
I've been pondering the fact that Reality Steve has been wrong about Peter three times. He initially claimed that Peter "won" Rachel's season and was engaged to her, before clawing that back and admitting that Bryan was the winner. (Steve said his sources led him astray...) In mid-August he claimed Peter had turned down the Bachelor job, then on August 30 he reversed again and said that Peter was the Bachelor (again, according to his sources.) We may never know for sure what really happened with Peter, but after all the drama Arie Luyendyk, Jr. has been officially announced as the next Bachelor and Steve is not a fan:
You're being sold a load of crap with Arie. The biggest dog they've ever cast as lead in Bachelor history. Good luck. He's gonna need it.— RealitySteve (@RealitySteve) September 7, 2017
They're definitely gonna get the tabloid coverage they want this season, that's for sure. You should see my inbox already. Holy crap.— RealitySteve (@RealitySteve) September 7, 2017
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