Tyler Cameron, Matt James, Patty James Theo Wargo/Getty Photographs; Joey Andrew/startraksphoto.com; ABC/Ricky Middlesworth
Will Matt James’ mother obtain the ultimate rose on The Golden Bachelor? Tyler Cameron thinks she simply would possibly.
“Patty’s my darkish horse,” Cameron, 30 — who has been shut associates with James, 31, for years — shared on the Sunday, September 24, episode of Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen. “I believe she’s going to go far in it.”
Patty and 21 different ladies might be vying for the attention of Gerry Turner, 72, the primary lead of ABC’s senior spinoff present. He’s embarking on his journey to search out love once more following the loss of life of his spouse in 2017. Patty, for her half, was beforehand married to Matt’s estranged father, Manny James. The pair break up whereas Matt was a baby.
In actual fact, Cameron joked, 70-year-old Patty “is perhaps a bit an excessive amount of for Gerry to deal with,” he quipped. “Hopefully he’s bought his pacemaker in, he’ll be alright.”
He concluded: “I believe Patty’s going to do nicely. I simply advised her to be her, have enjoyable and she or he’s gonna do nice.”
Cameron beforehand shared his hilarious response to Patty’s casting on his Instagram Story in August. He reposted an image of her posing with the opposite contestants from her account and wrote, “Trying superb as frog hairs.”
Followers met Cameron in 2019 when he was a contestant on Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette. Matt, for his half, was initially forged on Clare Crawley’s season in 2020, however filming was delayed as a result of COVID-19 and he was as a substitute slated to be the subsequent Bachelor.
It was on his season the place he met Rachael Kirkconnell, with whom he ended the present and continues to be courting, having weathered Kirkconnell’s previous racism scandal and a breakup.
Previous to Patty being introduced as a contestant on the present, Matt and Kirkconnell, 26, solely advised Us Weekly in July that they have been cheering Patty on in life — with or with out a stint in Bachelor Nation.
“I’m rooting for love [for Patty] any day, whether or not it’s on TV or off,” Kirkconnell gushed, whereas Matt added that “simply desires Mother to be completely satisfied.”
The Golden Bachelor premieres Thursday, September 28, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
