Laurel Kagay: From The Bachelor to The Bachlorette, and from Brad to Wes. Austin Woman Finds that Lightning Can Indeed Strike Twice

Laurel Kagay

This is an amazing story. It started several years ago when local bar owner Brad Womack was named ABC’s newest Bachelor. Brad, while ostensibly looking for love in Malibu with 25 women, was allegedly sending daily texts to ex-girlfriend and Austin boutique owner Laurel Kagay. Laurel is one of my daughter Jen’s best friends so we thought we’d have a bit of harmless fun with the story and posted a picture of Laurel on diningoutwithrobbalon.com along with the header: Austin’s Bachelor and the Girl He Left Behind.

Well, what we did ignited a firestorm. Laurel asked me to take down the story several days later because things got so out of control and we quickly obliged. But in those two brief days, Laurel was all over the Internet. Thankfully, the show ended soon after and things gradually died down.

But not before we all got a serious dose of viral reality.

So fast-forward a couple of years. I met this new guy named Wes at Jennifer’s birthday party. He was a talented singer and guitar player and we jammed late into the night. Turns out he was also dating Laurel at the time. And then about a year later Jen tells me that Wes is going to be on ABC’s The Bachelorette. The irony was irresistible. Two national reality show dudes with the same ex-girlfriend. And all three from Austin.

The plot got thicker when Wes apparently confided to one of his rivals on the show that he had a girlfriend back home named Laurel. Bear in mind that Wes has already been accused by his fellow bachelors of using the show as a publicity vehicle for his music. This tasty little morsel of obfuscation will air Monday night as Jake, one of the losers, comes back to visit Jillian (the bachelorette) in her Austin hotel to break the news that the evil Wes has a girlfriend whose name is Laurel.

So once again Laurel Kagay is all over the net as the girl who almost single-handedly ruined two reality shows. The truth of the matter is though that she was neither girl friend to Brad when he was The Bachelor nor girl friend to Wes during the filming of the Bachelorette. Yes, she has dated both but she wanted me to point out that she is now most definitely a bachelorette. She just seems to attract guys who get on national dating shows while being a bit obsessed with her.

I really think ABC should make Laurel the next Bachelorette. She really is cute, and after all the innuendo that’s flown around her for the last three years, it’s the least they can do.