Warning: Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 spoilers forward. Simply when the Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 finale couldn’t get extra dramatic, Kat confronted accusations that she had a secret boyfriend all all through filming, whom she communicated with by way of an iPad she snuck onto the set.
Kat Izzo, a 28-year-old from San Diego, California, was certainly one of 30 contestants on Bachelor in Paradise Season 10. She initially appeared on The Bachelor Season 27 with Zach Shallcross, the place she got here in fifth place, and Bachelor in Paradise Season 9, the place she left engaged to John Henry Spurlock. (They cut up lower than a yr later.)
Throughout Bachelor in Paradise Season 10, Kat coupled up with Dale Moss, the winner from The Bachelorette Season 16 with Clare Crawley. (Dale and Clare dated on and off for greater than a yr earlier than splitting in September 2021.) Kat and Dale exchanged roses on the first Rose Ceremony and stayed collectively till the Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 finale, when all alleged hell broke free with rumors she had a secret boyfriend that she was speaking with all through everything of filming.
Kat was first accused of getting a boyfriend whereas filming Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 when Actuality Steve reported that Sean McLaughlin, whom she starred with on each Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 and 10, confronted her in regards to the claims through the finale.
“Within the finale, Sean confronts Kat and accuses her of approaching the present with a boyfriend, utilizing the present for clout, and alleging that she contacted him in some way throughout filming,” Actuality Steve reported. Actuality Steve additionally confirmed that Kat and Dale have since moved on from the drama, very similar to Jeremy Simon and Bailey Brown, who’re additionally nonetheless collectively after their love triangle with Susie Evans.
“Kinda just like the Jeremy/Bailey state of affairs the place we all know they’re collectively now, so attempting to know every little thing that occurred in Costa Rica and why every little thing appeared to be swept beneath the rug, is kinda the identical state of affairs right here with Kat,” Actuality Steve wrote. “I do not know what’s true about Sean’s allegations and what isn’t. However we all know that Kat & Dale are nonetheless collectively. So that they’ve seemingly moved previous no matter occurred through the finale.”
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Allyshia Gupta, who left Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 with Sean, additionally echoed the allegations in an interview on “The Viall Recordsdata” in August 2025, by which she accused Kat of sneaking an iPad onto the set of Bachelor in Paradise and speaking together with her alleged boyfriend offscreen. Throughout the interview, Alllyshia claimed that she and Sean had a “dialog” with Sean’s finest buddy in Tampa, Florida, who was Kat’s alleged secret boyfriend.
“Her boyfriend on the time, he’s like, ‘You received’t consider who ended up screwing me over.’ He fills us in [and] she’s been sending him love letters since day one in Paradise,” Allyshia mentioned, calling Kat “not an sincere particular person.” “She snuck her iPad in, she was sending issues to get him by, like, ‘It will final you till I get again out of Paradise,’ and, like, that’s loopy.”
Host Nick Viall, for his half, additionally confirmed that he heard rumors about Kat’s alleged communication with an offscreen boyfriend after he ran right into a buddy who “had some issues to say about Kat.” “I heard she in some way wrote some messages on her arm for him,” he mentioned. Allyshia ended her dialog about Kat by making clear that she “wouldn’t choose Kat” as somebody she would ever spend time with off-camera. “She doesn’t inform the reality,” Allyshia mentioned.
Apart from Allyshia’s declare that Kat’s alleged boyfriend is a finest buddy of Sean’s from Tampa, Florida, not a lot is thought about his id. Earlier than Kat’s relationship with Dale, she was engaged to John Henry Spurlock from The Bachelorette Season 21 with Charity Lawson. Kat and John Henry received engaged within the Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 finale earlier than splitting 4 days after the finale aired.
“With mutual love and respect, Kat and I’ve not too long ago determined to half methods. Our relationship has been stuffed with great recollections and progress, one thing we seemed ahead to sharing with you. Whereas our paths are taking completely different instructions as a consequence of our profession objectives not aligning, we’re grateful for the love and assist we’ve acquired from our household, mates, and Bachelor Nation,” John Henry wrote in an Instagram submit on the time. “Whereas this determination wasn’t simple, we consider it’s the fitting step for each of us as people. As we navigate this transition, we ask to your continued assist and respect for our privateness.”
Kat, for her half, defined her facet of the breakup in an interview with “Bachelor Comfortable Hour” in July 2025, by which she confirmed that she and John Henry cut up as a consequence of his job and lengthy distance.
“There was nothing critical that occurred. By means of the airing of the present, we began to study extra about how we every deal with battle and adversity. It was not my selection, but it surely ended finally being one thing in all probability for the very best,” she mentioned. “It was beneath the umbrella of incompatibility. However we didn’t have any main fights or something like that. I believe it simply received an excessive amount of. He needed to do go into a special profession path than we each initially thought he needed to do, which finally led him to Hawaii.”
She continued, “It occurred at a very exhausting time emotionally with every little thing else that was happening, however general, we’re two good individuals, however we’re undoubtedly not one another’s individuals. I believe moments like how the present aired and the way every little thing went down in our relationship, it actually confirmed us what you possibly can deal with and whether or not you could be appropriate long run.”
She additionally confirmed that she absolutely believed she and John Henry would get married after their engagement.
“I believed every little thing. I actually was like, ‘That is my particular person.’ Now wanting again, I’m like, ‘I don’t assume so.’ I used to be a really completely different particular person,” she mentioned. “I believe I needed a relationship so badly. I noticed that for myself. I used to be prepared to consider something, regardless that there have been indicators in entrance of me saying this isn’t going to make sense. I believe it took one thing as excessive as that for me to actually sit again and consider how I see individuals and I see the world. Now I tread a bit lighter. However I absolutely believed that we had been in.”
Bachelor in Paradise streams on Hulu.
