Katie Lane Thurston is an American reality TV figure best known for participating in the bachelorette, one of the world’s most popular reality TV dating shows. The show spans about 19 seasons currently, but Katie Thurston was the beloved bachelorette of season 17, where she had to choose her favorite from thirty men in total. Indeed, as usual with the progression of The Bachelorette series, Katie did end up picking her favorite, but if you don’t watch the show and instead follow the news, you’ll be surprised to find out that it is not Joh Heresy.
John Heresy was one of the thirty male contestants that participated in The Bachelorette’s Season 17, but unfortunately, he didn’t last more than two weeks. By the end of the show, Thurston ended up surrendering her rose to Blake Moynes, a rival contestant who joined the show halfway through as the surprise guest. The pair even got engaged, but unfortunately, the engagement fell through, and Thurston and Moynes split up.
Who is John Hersey?
As explained above, Hersey was a contestant for Season 17 of The Bachelorette but didn’t last on the show. A few weeks before her official break-up with the show’s winner Blake Moynes, Katie had struck up an unexpected friendship with John Hersey, whom she’d bumped into in San Diego. Later, Moynes accuses Katie of cheating on him with Hersey, which was what he maintained as the cause for their breakup, but both Katie and John firmly stand by their claims that their friendship was purely platonic and there were no such intentions initially.
The timing of their relationship was without a doubt suspicious, and Moynes’ accusations could easily have been true, but regardless, Katie and John did not hide their relationship. In fact, the couple made it very public by posting pictures on social media platforms and the like. They expertly dodge any media slander or audience rumors that may have put a damper on their newly budding relationship at the time. The couple kept up this pace for a while, and fans eventually decided that they would be forever, especially when Katie had quoted that she was “the happiest version” of herself when she was with him.
That’s why it shocked everyone so much when the couple had their breakup- less than half a year later.
Katie Thurston on the Breakup
For thirty days before the couple announced their breakup, Katie had gone offline and announced that she’d be going “off the grid”. At the time, there was no online interaction between Thurston and Hersey. There was no possible way to figure out what was going on, and the result was one that was unexpected by a majority. Katie, on her part, revealed the break-up on her Instagram story in the bluntest of terms “Statement: no, we aren’t together”. It wasn’t difficult to figure out who and what she was talking about, but even so, the real confirmation was when John put up a post of his own.
John Hersey’s statement was more comprehensive, and he definitely had more to say on the matter of their breakup than Katie did at the time. He quoted that the breakup was not done lightly and that it obviously wasn’t an easy decision which fans did understand.
Later, during a guest appearance that Katie made on the podcast Off the Vine hosted by former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe, Katie revealed that they had had a breakup prior to the official one revealed online. She also admits that the break-up was not a mutual decision but rather that John had dumped her. Even though the split hadn’t lasted long, it soon became clear once they got back together that the relationship’s end would be inevitable for them, according to Katie.
It seemed clear that John wanted someone a bit more similar to him with regard to his hobbies. Katie Thurston stated that she’d partaken in skydiving with Hersey so that they could enjoy something that he wanted to do. The experience did not seem to be something that Thurston enjoyed but only took part in for the sake of her partner. The line was drawn when Hersey wanted to try out surfing- another hobby that Katie had no interest in nor any more patience to spare for.
Currently, Thurston is not dating anybody and may not be anytime soon.
