Season 10 may have started off slow, but Bachelor in Paradise is ramping up the drama leading up to the September 1 finale—and the drama is not limited to the screen. During a recent appearance on The Viall Files with Nick Viall, Allyshia Gupta claimed that—despite being coupled up with Dale Moss—Kat Izzo had a secret boyfriend while on Bachelor in Paradise.
Bachelor Nation is well aware that Allyshia and Kat don’t get along and that Kat had a huge falling out with Sean McLaughlin, who ended up leaving BiP with Allyshia on the most recent episode. So, when Allyshia sat down with Nick, he was quick to ask about their relationship.
“She’s not an honest person,” Allyshia said of Kat. “She doesn’t tell the truth, and she was caught in a lie many times, and that’s something that, for me, is the bare minimum.”
Of course, Nick’s next move was to press Allyshia about this so-called “lie” Kat told, and that’s when Allyshia spilled the beans. According to her, Kat was dating Sean’s best friend when she left to film for Paradise—and Allyshia got the story straight from him.
“So Sean and I leave—spoiler alert—[and] we have a conversation with Sean’s best friend, who was her boyfriend at the time,” she said. “He’s like, ‘You won’t believe who ended up screwing me over in all of this.’”
She continued, saying that the mystery boyfriend told them that Kat had been “sending him love letters since Day 1 in Paradise.” How was she getting him these messages, exactly, when Bachelor has a strict no-phone” policy? According to Allyshia: “She snuck her iPad in. She was sending him things ‘to get him through.’ Like, ‘This will last you till I get back out of Paradise.’”
In response, Nick said he’d heard rumors that Kat would write messages on her arms for this secret boyfriend, in the hopes that the cameras would catch them. Allyshia couldn’t confirm or deny this—but when asked what she thought Kat might do when confronted by this information on the show, she said, “I think Kat is going to do what Kat does best, which is deny, lie, cry.”
Meanwhile, blogger Reality Steve also hinted at this drama in a spoiler post on Instagram. He likened the situation to the Jeremy-Bailey-Brian drama, writing, “In the finale, Sean confronts Kat and accuses her of coming on the show with a boyfriend, using the show for clout, and alleging that she contacted him somehow during filming.”
That said, Reality Steve is reporting that Kat and Dale are still together, so either they worked through it or Kat is going to set Sean straight in the finale. We will be watching.
