While the stakes are considerably lower on FBoy Island, which has a 0.0 percent success rate thus far, Katie was able to establish several genuine connections, including an immediate attraction with Vince Xu, who also happened to get engaged on a reality TV series: 2022’s The One That Got Away. (Spoiler alert: She got away again.)
But Vince’s reality TV past wasn’t an issue for Katie, because, Hi, same!
“When I was thinking long term every day, I’m like, ‘Can I leave with this guy?'” Katie explained. “With him I was like, ‘Okay, if it’s him and I at the end, at least he would know what’s required to try to make a relationship work.’ Because when you leave reality TV in a relationship, a lot of people don’t understand how kind of foreign and hard it is. He understands what it’s going to take outside of this. Not everybody does.”