10 Facts About "The Bachelorette"-Turned-"FBoy Island" Star Katie Thurston

At this point, Thurston has been on enough reality dating series to understand the fast-paced game-show aspects. However, while comparing her "Bachelorette" experience to that on "FBoy Island," she told Us Weekly that the latter offered her more time to get to know the guys vying for her affection. "On 'Bachelor' and 'Bachelorette,' it's very quick. You're almost always looking over your shoulder expecting to get snagged away. During 'FBoy Island,' I felt like I got to have so much uninterrupted quality time with these guys even on group sessions where I would just forget, like, 20, 25, 30 minutes later, and then finally another guy's coming. I'm like, 'Oh yeah, there's other guys here,'" she explained. "It was such a normal experience in a very un-normal [environment]. There wasn't a lot of outside interference."