If you haven’t binged the whole of Too Hot To Handle in lockdown, then what have you been doing? While we absolutely adored the show.) But one unexpected romance is blossoming - albeit on other sides of the world.
Speaking to Grazia from London, Nicole has revealed that after filming wrapped she’s grown close to Bryce (one of the show’s late entries/grenades). So much so, that she was supposed to be flying out to LA to see him ‘this month, June and July’. Cute!
‘I’ve gotten very, very close to Bryce, we’re trying out dating and just seeing where it goes,’ Nicole tells us. ‘We didn’t have much time [to get to know each other] through filming because there’s so much going on on a day-to-day basis. When we finished we were in a hotel for a few days, so we got close there and we were chatting one on one.’
She adds, ‘We’re very chilled, we’re seeing how everything goes and not putting any pressure on it.’
The reality star - who worked on yachts with clients including Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Jay Z before being approached for the show - says Bryce isn’t her usual type, which is why they didn’t get together on the show. ‘On the show, honestly, he's not my usual type,’ she adds. ‘After I got to know him more, I grew to like him more and more because he is just such a lovely person. And he's obviously handsome.’
Nicole also tells us that while she loved being on the show - and says it has made a real difference to the way she dates - that would never have agreed to go on the show if she had known the twist: that contestants couldn't engage in any sexual activity if they wanted to win all of the $100,000 prize. 'No,' she says, when asked if she would have still flown to Mexico, 'it sounds ridiculous! Like, who on earth would do that? But when you actually do it? Oh my God, it was the best experience of my life.'
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