When it comes to Tyler Norris, it's definitely not going down successful the DMs.
Tyler, who made his Bachelor successful Paradise debut connected the Oct. 18 episode, became a instrumentality favourite during Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey's play of The Bachelorette.
After Rachel yet broke things disconnected with Tyler during a day successful his Wildwood, N.J. hometown—we'll ne'er look astatine boardwalks the aforesaid mode again—all helium had to bash was peruse his flooded Instagram DMs folder for immoderate support.
But as it turns out, Tyler wasn't adjacent looking.
"You get a batch of DMs. That's portion of being connected TV, I guess," Tyler exclusively told E! News. "Honestly, I don't truly spell done each the DMs and everything. Ultimately, I conscionable privation to conscionable a idiosyncratic successful the existent world."
Despite his dalliances with attempting to find emotion connected television, Tyler said he's truly much of meet-cute guy.
"I'm an aged romanticist sap," helium said. "I ticker each the rom coms and I deliberation to myself, ‘You cognize what, I'm gonna beryllium astatine a farmers marketplace and conscionable somebody.'"
Though Tyler admitted he's not actively browsing for section nutrient connected a regular basis, helium joked, "I gotta commencement going each azygous week."
When it comes to his societal media emotion aversion, Tyler is reasoning adjacent further ahead, saying "Do I privation my kids successful the aboriginal to beryllium like, ‘Where did you conscionable Mom?' and I'd beryllium like, ‘Oh, I DM'd her connected Instagram.' No!"
However, according to Tyler, that hasn't ever been the case. After all, his full instauration into Bachelor Nation is acknowledgment to shooting his changeable astatine Rachel successful that manner. As helium explained, "I DM'd her earlier I adjacent knew I was going to beryllium connected the show."
So, what did Tyler's DM say?
"During the season, it was like the 2nd episode, and I thought she was gorgeous," Tyler said. "I was conscionable like, ‘Hey, if things don't enactment retired with Clayton [Echard] and you ever extremity up as The Bachelorette, motion maine up due to the fact that I deliberation you're gorgeous.' Two weeks later, I got a telephone asking if I was funny successful the show."
While Tyler calls Rachel "a bully person of mine" and the 2 person talked since her play ended without an engagement, Tyler insisted they are conscionable that: friends.
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As for his caller task onto Bachelor successful Paradise, Tyler said helium was "a small hesitant saying yes to it originally," but helium yet went successful with an unfastened mind.
"I was conscionable like, ‘Do I privation to bash this again?'" Tyler recalled. "And I thought to myself, ‘You cognize what, Rachel, ultimately, is going to conscionable her person.' I didn't cognize the extremity of the amusement astatine the time. So I thought to myself, ‘She's going to conscionable her person, I would similar to conscionable my person,' and get to cognize idiosyncratic who's besides been done the aforesaid experience. I was conscionable like, ‘Yeah, I'll bash that.'"
Find retired if Tyler finds what he's looking for when Bachelor successful Paradise airs Mondays and Tuesdays astatine 8 p.m. connected ABC.
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