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Bachelor Nation’s Demi Burnett Pitches Herself as ‘Bachelorette’ Lead for First ‘Bi Season’
Demi Burnett is making her reality television return on Hulu’s new competition show Got to Get Out, but she got her start in Bachelor Nation. After appearing on Season 23 of The Bachelor and Seasons 5 and 7 of Bachelor in Paradise, Burnett is still single and isn’t shutting the door on returning to the franchise.
In fact, she told Swooon that she’d be down to star on The Bachelorette in the future and has an idea for how she can help the show do something its never done before.
“I’d be the Bachelorette. Of course I would. I could be the Bachelorette and just have guys and girls. The first bi season,” Burnett pitched. The reality star came out as bisexual on Season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2019 and got engaged to her then-girlfriend Kristian Haggerty on the show. However, they split just months later. When she returned for Season 7, she didn’t make any connections and was eliminated in Week 3.
Bachelor in Paradise is returning this summer after taking a year off in 2024, and Burnett admitted that she hasn’t gotten a call to return. But would she be interested?
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“I don’t know. If anything, if I were to go back to the beach, it’s because I’d be trying to date one of the Golden guys,” she laughed, referring to how The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette singles will also be on the beach this summer. “Or the Golden gals. Or any of the girls! I’m only going for the Golden guys or the girls. Not necessarily Golden girls … all women. And Golden guys. I don’t want any men fresh off The Bachelorette. They’re trouble.”
Unfortunately, it seems like the Golden and young cast members will be on separate beaches, so there wont be any mingling between the contestants from different age groups.
On Got to Get Out, Burnett will have some familiar Bachelor Nation faces in her corner. Clare Crawley and Susan Noles (The Golden Bachelor) are also part of the cast, and Burnett said it was “really nice” for her to have them there.
She said it was “exciting” to get cast on the show, which puts 20 people in a house in hopes of escaping with a $1 million prize. “It was a little nerve-wracking because this is the first time I was going to do a show without alcohol,” Burnett admitted. “I haven’t drank alcohol in almost four years now. So I was a little bit nervous about that. But everything ended up being great and fine.”
Without alcohol, Burnett said she thinks people will see a “more clever” and “funnier” side of her. “I think they will see more of their favorite parts of me than maybe some of the parts that fell off because they were getting drowned out with alcohol,” she explained. “I got back in touch with those things that are the best parts of me.”
Since her last time on reality television, Burnett has also opened up about her autism diagnosis, which she said “definitely affected” her on the show because her “social strategy isn’t the best.”
“I’m coming across in ways that I don’t realize,” Burnett revealed. “At one point, someone made a remark to me that people said I was condescending and I remember I was so taken aback by that. … And because I’m a people pleaser and I have a big mouth, people didn’t want to work with me because of that.”
Got to Get Out, Friday, April 11, Hulu
