It may only be the first week ofBachelor in Paradise,but the drama on the beach has already begun.
At thecenter of the tension:Blake Horstmann, the runner-up onBecca Kufrin’s season ofThe Bachelorette. Before arriving in Mexico, Horstmann, 30, had been talking to bothCaelynn Miller-KeyesfromColton Underwood’s season andKristina SchulmanfromNick Viall’s season. Then, during a weekend at theStageCoach country music festivalin California in April, Horstmann spent the night with Schulman, 27, and the following evening in bed with Miller-Keyes, 23. And, yes, both women found out about the other.
“He made quite a mess,” hostChris Harrisontells PEOPLE. “He created it outside ofParadise,and it followed him in and then it blew up in his face on a grand scale. I’m not really sure what he was thinking or if he was thinking at all. Why would you walk in here thinking it wasn’t going to be an absolute powder keg? Maybe he thought he was bulletproof and he could do no wrong.”
All threeBachelorNation stars have since found themselves sharing the sand onBachelor in Paradise, and Schulman used her date card to confront Horstmann about the situation on Tuesday’s episode. As soon as Horstmann got back from the less-than-romantic date, he andMiller-Keyeshad a conversation that left him contemplating leavingParadise.
But Horstmann, who’d gone on a date withTayshia AdamsduringMonday night’s episode, stuck around and tried to wooHannah Godwin, insisting he only came toParadisefor her.
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“Good on him for licking his wounds and getting right back in the game!” Harrison, 48, says. “If I was him I would’ve just dove in the ocean and swam away. He gets right back in the game and goes after Hannah and Hannah’s had a little something going with Dylan. Hannah’s a pretty hot commodity. Blake and her have a connection and it’s undeniable. It’s something that is going to linger.”
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“We knew Blake and Caelynn had history,” he says. “We heard about Kristina, but then we heard he had also been talking to, DMing, Hannah, as well, so he kind of had a love square, octagon thing, heading intoParadise. It really is this ongoing soap opera.”
Caelynn.Craig Sjodin/ABC
“Do I think he’s a bad guy? No. He probably got a little full of himself, started believing all the hype and believing he was as good as everyone was telling him, which happens,” Harrison says. “Hopefully he can come back down to earth a little bit. We all need to be humbled from time to time.”
Hannah Godwin.Craig Sjodin/ABC
Either way, Harrison guarantees there’s much more drama to come.
“It’s the best season,” he says. “There’s so much to it. I can tell you this:Paradiseworks. There is love found inParadise.”
Bachelor in Paradiseairs Mondays and Tuesdays on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
source: people.com
