If you're not preoccupying your time with the Olympics or The Bachelor, chances are you're probably watching Bachelor Winter Games, the four-episode series in which Bachelor franchise contestants from around the world are pitted together in Olympic-like competitions. Similar to Bachelor in Paradise, the goal is to be the last couple standing.
Bringing in contestants from other countries means there's a lot of fresh meat for the American audience to feast upon, and one particularly delightful surprise this season has been Kevin Wendt, the 33-year-old firefighter who proposed to Jasmine Lorimer on the first season of Canada's The Bachelorette. While Jasmine and Kevin have clearly ended their engagement — and on good terms — it hasn't deterred him from finding love on the show.
Naturally we had to find out more about Kevin, so we hopped on the phone with him to discuss everything like Nickelback (yes, really), his sign, and the person who convinced him to go back on the show.
Kevin said he was forced to grow up and live on his own for the first time. He traveled to places like India, Abu Dhabi, Thailand, and Fiji for work. "It was right during the whole pirate thing, when Captain Phillips was starting out. We did a lot of time off the coast of Somalia. I was the boarding party diver, so I was part of the team that would go and search all those little boats."
The producers explained this spinoff was going to be lighter and fun, and that while there would be chemistry and romance, they positioned it as "one big party in Vermont." Doing some research on the show, Kevin was intrigued. "I started reading into it, and I thought Peter was going to be there, I knew Ben was coming. And I realized it wasn't just a bunch of random people from different seasons, like there were some pretty hard hitters! Ben, Dean, Ashley . . . this is a pretty good cast."
You can watch Bachelor Winter Games on Tuesday, Feb. 20, plus the show's finale and after-show on Thursday, Feb. 22, on ABC.