‘Bachelor In Paradise’ Recap: Brayden Gets Blindsided By Hurricane Kat As 2 New Men Shake Up The Beach
13.10.2023 - 05:53
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Thursday’s episode of ABC‘s Bachelor in Paradise.
It’s another week in Paradise, and trouble is brewing on the horizon as the women prepare to hand out the roses.
The morning after the first rose ceremony begins on a peaceful note, since everyone left on the beach is coupled up. Brayden is bragging about how he smells good (which the producers refute) and some of the other men start to wonder what’s in store as the women hold the power this week. But overall, everyone is feeling content.
All good things must come to an end, though, and it’s time to shake things up on the beach. Tanner Courtad from Charity Lawson’s Season 20 of The Bachelorette is hitting the sand! If you’ll remember, he was at the top of quite a few ladies’ lists in terms of who they’d like to meet in Paradise.
Kat and Jess set their sights on him almost immediately, and he reciprocates the interest. After conversations with both women, he asks Kat on a date — much to Brayden’s dismay.
In an interesting departure from Charity’s season, pretty much everyone else on the beach is standing by Brayden throughout this fiasco, even the other men from Season 20 who were not his biggest fan. When Kat accepts Tanner’s invitation without hesitation and without a courtesy conversation with Brayden, she quickly becomes Enemy No. 1.
She’s fairly unbothered for the time being though, as she’s whisked away on horseback to a private picnic on the beach with Tanner. They seem to click right away, and it doesn’t take long for her to admit to Tanner that she already thinks her connection with him is stronger than her connection with Brayden. It feels like sort of a strange thing to divulge, but to each their own.
While the