Jared Haibon inadvertently inserted himself into a love triangle on Bachelor in Paradise and while most guys would love to have two women fighting over them…not Jared. In fact the 27-year-old Warwick, Rhode Island Bartender/actor is feeling a bit bitter about his lot in “Paradise”.
It was no secret that Ashley Iaconetti was still harboring feelings for Jared but Jared did not realize that Ashley was going to be there looking for him!
He recently told the HuffPost….
“If I had any idea that Ashley was coming into Paradise, even if it was a small percentage, to either be with me or get over me, I would never have gone to Paradise. So I think that was one of the things I was most frustrated by.”
And I can’t imagine Jared didn’t grill producers prior to doing the show about Ashley I. Additionally Jared spoke to Ashley prior to deciding to do the show and Ashley told him she was interested in pursuing things with Wells Adams.
“We talked a lot about it. And then she got a phone call about the possibility of her going on, so she was more understanding the more we talked. We both decided that we needed to make this decision individually, and that if we went we would be going for other people. I knew that she had an interest in Wells, and I had mentioned Caila to her. … I honestly thought everything was gonna be OK.”
It was clear on Paradise that Jared and Ashley had a strong friendship off-screen so did that all change after Paradise?
“While I was in ‘Paradise,’ I had a lot of frustrations towards the things Ashley said and did, and discussed her approach and her unwillingness to try to move past myself until Wells came…. It was a very troubling time for awhile between Ashley and myself. We had a lot of very difficult long and hard conversations, but we talked through everything and I’m still friends with [her].”
And then there is the issue of Caila who is now “taking a break” from dating after two very brief failed reality relationships.
“Caila and myself are still friends. Once we left the show, I think there was just so much that happened in Paradise that it was very difficult to move past. Even after the show, I think we had a lot of difficult times. There were some nights where it was causing us so much stress to be together in terms of the conversations we had to have, that we didn’t have a strong enough foundation to kind of hold all the weight that was coming down upon us. And that’s what happened. Caila and myself are still friends, though.”
It’s a messy situation for sure. My concern with Jared is that he is so honest and he takes everyone at face value aka Caila Quinn and I suspect Caila was playing Jared the whole time to gain favor with producers in hopes of winning the real prize…The Bachelorette.
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