Well, Heather showed up during the filming of Matt James’ season and seriously shook things up. “Heather, what are you doing here?” Chris Harrison said when he saw her. “You can honestly destroy this whole thing for Matt.” Cut to a scene of Matt looking shocked as he said, “Heather, I feel like I’m in a dream right now,” followed by moments of the other contestants upset that Heather was there, and Heather crying and saying, “This is an impossible situation right now…I do feel like Matt’s worth it.” But what has Heather been up to since she last appeared on The Bachelor and why is she on Matt’s season? Here’s everything you need to know.
She seems to be working for a hardware manufacturing company
According to LinkedIn, Heather’s day job is as an assistant program manager at Aethercomm, a company that makes amplifier modules and switches for military vehicles. Heather has held that gig for 3.5 years, per LinkedIn, although it’s unclear if she’s still there or just never updated her LinkedIn profile.
She’s been doing the Instagram influencer thing
Heather now has 237,000 followers on Instagram and shares plenty of spon-con in between photos of herself.
Heather might still have only had one kiss
Heather told Us Weekly back in March 2019 that she hadn’t kissed anyone since appearing on Colton’s season of The Bachelor. Granted, that was two years ago, but with the pandemic making it hard to date, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Heather still hasn’t kissed someone else. Heather also told Us that she was surprised that people didn’t believe that she had never kissed anyone before the show. “It was super interesting that people didn’t believe me,” she said. “I’m like, ‘I don’t really know how to defend myself in this, but I don’t know why I would lie about something like that.’ It’s not something that would help me in any way in my opinion. I don’t think it’s going to get me anywhere.”
She appeared in a country music video
When Bringing Up Bates star Lawson Bates released a music video for his track, “Song for a Girl,” he turned to Heather for help. “‘Song for a Girl’ lyrically and sonically has that traditional country love song vibe that depicts the early stages of a blossoming romance,” Lawson told PEOPLE. “We wanted that carefree, summertime feel to be highlighted well in the official music video, and Heather definitely matched the vibe perfectly.” Heather said she had a “blast” being in the video. “I had always joked that being in a country music video was on my bucket list so when Lawson reached out with this opportunity I was so excited," she told PEOPLE.
Heather and Hannah Brown are good friends
Heather and Hannah Brown appeared on Colton’s season of The Bachelor together, and apparently, the two are still tight. Heather recently shared photos and a video of herself and Hannah goofing off together.
But how do Heather and Matt know each other?
Hannah is good friends with Matt (by way of former Bachelorette star Tyler Cameron), and it seems like Hannah may have played a role in Heather showing up on Matt’s season. What’s unclear at this point is whether Heather and Matt met before and, if they have, how well they knew each other. Bachelor Nation stars tend to run in the same circles, so…
Spoiler alert: Heather doesn’t win Matt’s final rose
According to spoiler god Reality Steve, Heather only joins filming “for a few hours” and Matt sends her home the same day that she arrives. Next, find out who went home on Matt James’ Bachelor premiere.
