Kaitlyn Bristowe is pushing hard for an Are You My First? reunion.
“I might have to take it into my own hands and just do it on my podcast or my YouTube, because I need a reunion so bad,” Bristowe, 40, told Us Weekly exclusively at the “LadyGang” podcast’s LadyWorld festival in Miramar Beach, Florida, this past weekend.
The former Bachelorette star quipped that she wishes “people would just trust me on this one” because, as the host of the Hulu show, she has the inside scoop.
“The tea that has happened since filming to now, and the information I have received,” Bristowe teased. “I’m in the girl group chat with the cast, and I’m just like, this is where the TV magic is everybody.”
Are You My First? season 1 — which Bristowe noted was “epic television” — premiered in August with her as the host alongside fellow Bachelor Nation alum Colton Underwood. The show followed a group of virgin singles looking for love, which is where the title comes from.
“I loved every second of it,” Bristowe said about the show. “If we had a reunion, it would sell season 2.”
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Bristowe, who previously hosted two seasons of The Bachelorette, told Us that Are You My First? was a whole other beast.
“The Bachelorette hosting experience was a lot more intense because I had really big shoes to fill,” she explained. “To step in, I was like, ‘I’ve never done this before.’ I was reading a teleprompter while having an in-ear and having to cut for a commercial break. And I was like, ‘This is hard work.’”
Are You My First? was, well, “a first for everybody” — which was the major difference for Bristowe.
“It was their first time on TV. Somebody’s having their first kiss. I’m having my first season of a show. So it didn’t feel as much of a responsibility and pressure,” Bristowe explained. “It was like, well, whatever we make this, that’s what it is. So, I felt like I could be a little more myself.”
Bristowe took her hosting skills to the stage at LadyWorld on Sunday, September 28, to share “confessions” (like on her “Off the Vine” podcast) with the crowd and sing some original songs for the first time ever.
“They are very personal,” Bristowe said of her songs. She took the stage on Sunday with “If I’m Being Honest,” which was dropped in 2020 and a separate tune she wrote but has yet to be released.
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“When I was writing them, it was at such different times in my life for everything, but still, somehow, the lyrics apply to every point I’m at in my life,” she said. “That’s the beautiful thing about music, is people can write a song that means one thing to them, and somebody can listen to it, and it could mean something different to them. Everybody can relate to music or come together through music.”
When it comes to where she’s at in her personal life right now, Bristowe is staying tight-lipped for now.
“I’m in my private era,” she joked to Us. “I’m such an open book, so to keep one aspect of my life private when it comes to dating — which is the only thing I keep private — it feels really sacred and nice because my last two relationships felt so exposed.”
