The Golden Bachelor alum Nancy Hulkower has teased she’s dating someone new after her romance with Gerry Turner didn’t work out.
During a recent episode of “The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast,” co-host Ben Higgins asked Nancy if she has any update for fans on her love life since appearing on Bachelor in Paradise’s tenth season earlier this summer.
Nancy paused and replied, “Perhaps!”
“You’re getting quiet,” Ben noted.
“Perhaps,” Nancy repeated. “I don’t want to say too much because it’s very new.”
The Season 1 The Golden Bachelor alum continued, “We’ve been talking and we’re going to see each other in a couple of weeks.”
Nancy then revealed that she and this mystery man haven’t actually met face to face yet.
“That’s all I can say because I haven’t met him in person,” Nancy noted. “But we chat on the phone every day.”
Nancy suggested this is a big deal for her because she’s been single for a long time.
“Truly, I’ve had one date in the last five years because, you know, I’ve been very busy with Bachelor Nation,” Nancy said.
“And since our season, no I didn’t date. So this would be the first one that I really wanted to [date]. And so I’m hopeful for the future.”
Nancy promised to give Ben more details later if the relationship works out.
In terms of how they connected, Nancy confessed, “I cannot tell you that.”
Nancy self-eliminated from Gerry’s The Golden Bachelor season in Week 4 because she didn’t think their connection was strong enough to end up together.
Leslie proceeded to hit the beach in Costa Rica on Bachelor in Paradise’s tenth season, and while she enjoyed a date with Gary Levingston, she eventually got eliminated without having found her match.
In August, fellow The Golden Bachelor alum Leslie Fhima claimed on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast that Nancy and Gary actually had “a history” before looking for love on Bachelor in Paradise.
On Bachelor in Paradise’s tenth season, Leslie and Gary enjoyed a sexy salsa date and really hit it off, but when Nancy arrived in Paradise days later, she asked Gary out on a date and he accepted her invitation.
“Nancy had made it clear to everybody — she announced before she went on the date — to us all that were sitting there, ‘I just want you to know that Gary and I have been talking a lot and we have a history, so that’s why I picked him [for a date],'” Leslie claimed.
Leslie told the podcast’s co-hosts Serena Pitt and Joe Amabile, “I was like, ‘Okay, I mean, you can pick whoever you want.'”
Leslie speculated that Nancy and Gary were probably more like “DMing or texting” rather than talking in-person or on the phone prior to filming Bachelor in Paradise.
“I don’t know, but she had said, ‘We have a history,'” Leslie claimed.
“So I was kind of taken aback a little bit because I didn’t know that happened, although [Kathy Swarts] did tell me numerous times, ‘Gary is only here for Nancy.’ So I did hear that a lot.”
So Leslie said “of course” Nancy was going to ask Gary out if the pair had some type of pre-existing relationship.
“[I said], ‘I hope you have fun,’ and I hope he picks me at the Rose Ceremony! What can I say?! I don’t know. I mean, we’re all friends, and it’s a weird position to be in,” Leslie recalled.
When Gary had a rose to hand out at the next Rose Ceremony, he gave it to Leslie, and so Nancy was eliminated.
“I knew what we had; I knew our connection was really strong,” Leslie shared.
“And I knew our date was amazing. I had no idea what [Nancy and Gary] were doing. When they came back… I had gone to sleep, and so I didn’t know.”
When asked if she talked to Gary about his “history” with Nancy afterward, Leslie couldn’t remember.
“I think we sat down and had a conversation about it a little bit,” Leslie said.
“I did bring up the fact that they have the same faith. I am Jewish and he’s Christian, and so [I asked], ‘Does that play [a role in dating]?’ And he said, ‘No, I dated a Jewish woman before.'”
Leslie elaborated, “So I think we had a conversation like that, but I don’t remember saying, ‘Did you have a strong connection with Nancy before the show?’ I don’t think I asked him that.”
Gary eventually got eliminated from the show, and he left with the intention of continuing to date Leslie.
However, Gary went Instagram official with a new woman in early October.
