The Bachelorette’s first success story is Trista and Ryan Sutter, but the couple doesn’t want their kids to watch their romance play out on TV.
It’s hard to believe that we are coming up on season 15 of The Bachelorette. For a solid decade and a half, ABC has been helping men and women find their match. While the show gets a lot of crap from critics about being overly-manipulated or full of fake contestants, there are more than a few love stories that prove them wrong. One of these is that of the original Bachelorette and her beau, Trista and Ryan Sutter.
Long after their televised wedding special aired, these two are celebrating 15 years of marital bliss. They have two kids and a solid life and they realize that they owe a significant part of that to reality TV.
It was recently announced that streaming service Tubi has acquired the rights to those traditionally hard to find first few seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, which means that suddenly Trista and Ryan’s 15 year story will come out of the dust and get new life online.
For the Sutters, this poses a bit of a problem. The couple spoke with Today about how they are glad they went on the show, but perhaps a little nervous about their children seeing every intimate detail of their early relationship.
Trista specifically pointed out that the physical aspects of their romance might not be appropriate for children.
"I don’t know if we’ll necessarily pull up the Tubi app and have them watch my season of The Bachelorette. Their parents making out? No, we don’t need to be showing them that."
Ryan acknowledged that they will have to be realistic going forward, but he still lamented the sudden change for their family.
"I was always so comfortable with the fact it was only available on VHS, so I knew no one was ever going to watch it — and now it’s caught up with technology. I don’t want my friends to be, like, ‘Remember this?!’"
15 seasons of The Bachelorette and 23 of The Bachelor feel like a lot of time to assess the show’s effects on its participants, but we really have yet to see what role it will ultimately have in their adult lives. Trista and Ryan Sutter have some of the oldest kids in the franchise. We’re only just now getting a glimpse into how parents from the show will have to tackle difficult issues with their families.
What will the contestants who clearly slept with other participants on the show do? What about those who experienced broken engagements? Those who got their hearts broken? Only time will tell.