Ava Phillippe is a Bachelor Nation fan. The daughter of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe had audiences doing a double take as she was noticed on the reside taping of Gerry Turner’s “Golden Bachelor” finale on Thursday.
“Am I loopy or is Reese Witherspoons daughter on the golden bachelor finale??? #TheGoldenBachelor,” one viewer wrote on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
ABC govt Robert Mills confirmed that Ava, 24, was certainly on the present — and he or she introduced alongside a relative.
“That is her,” he tweeted. “Her mom Betty is right here as nicely. #TheGoldenBachelor,” he added, referring to Witherspoon’s mother, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Witherspoon.
The ABC collection Instagram account additionally shared a photograph of the pair smiling for the digicam as they sat entrance row to seek out out who Turner, 72, in the end selected between his ultimate two: Theresa Nist, 70, and Leslie Fhima, 64.
“So many pals within the viewers tonight, and we’re all emotionally bonded after this,” the caption learn.
Ava sat subsequent to new Bachelor lead Joey Graziadei. (The Oscar winner and ex-husband Ryan, 49, are additionally dad and mom of son Deacon, 20.)
Ava and Betty had been in good firm on Thursday evening. Different stars within the crowd included Jennifer Love Hewitt and first Bachelorette Trista Sutter and husband Ryan Sutter.
Because the world discovered collectively, Turner proposed to Theresa and the couple plan to have a televised wedding ceremony on Jan. 4, 2024, titled “The Golden Wedding ceremony.”
“We’re going to get married. We’re going to do it as rapidly as we are able to, as a result of at our age, we don’t have loads of time to waste,” joked Turner to host Jesse Palmer on Thursday evening. “In order rapidly as we are able to put collectively a marriage plan, we’re getting married.”
The newly-engaged pair opened up about why they belonged collectively throughout their emotional proposal.
“I understand how typically it appears like the entire world thinks love is just for the younger, and fairly truthfully, on the age of 70, I used to be starting to really feel that myself,” she stated in Costa Rica within the pre-taped footage. “After Billy died, I used to be on the level the place I assumed I’m going to reside the remainder of my life alone, till I met you and I noticed you smile and I assumed, oh my God! What am I feeling right here?”
She continued, “I’m so head over heels in love with you, Gerry, and I really feel that for us, life isn’t over, one of the best is but to return.”
Turner, for his half, ended with a teasing joke — which in the end frightened his now-fiancee.
“I got here to the belief that you simply’re not the best individual for me to reside with,” he stated, with a really lengthy pause.
After Nist appeared involved, he lastly added: “You’re the individual that I can’t reside with out. I like you 1,000%.”