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If it wasn’t for , fans could have seen alum ‘s onscreen search for love. “When I worked at SUR way before or or , when we didn’t even have a liquor license I was bartending the wine and beer bar,” Kristen, 41, told boyfriend Luke Broderick and guest star on earlier this month. “Someone from The Bachelor came in and gave me a card and asked me to be a contestant on it.

” Kristen ultimately , adding, “I had just started dating Tom Sandoval so I was like, ‘No. This [relationship] could be forever.’ I could have been on Bachelor Nation instead of Bravo.



” Joe, 38, then asked Kristen whether she would have said yes if not for Sandoval, 41. “I think so. But I thought you get paid or get a weekly something,” she said before Joe clarified that there were no paychecks for contestants on the “two main” shows.

“So you have to leave your job and everything [in your life]?” Kristen was an original cast member on when it debuted in 2013. The first seasons of the show, which served as a spinoff, . The pair dated from 2007 to 2013, but subsequently called it quits after Kristen admitted on screen that she hooked up with their costar .

Sandoval subsequently moved on with and they were together for nearly a decade before news broke in March 2023 that . Kristen, for her part, found love with Luke after being fired from in 2020 for past racially insensitive behavior toward former costar . Earlier this year, Kristen returned to Bravo alongside fellow VPR alums Jax.

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