{"id":233583,"date":"2026-04-09T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/shawn-booth-reveals-how-real-his-beef-was-with-nick-viall-while-competing-on-the-bachelorette\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:46:57","slug":"shawn-booth-reveals-how-real-his-beef-was-with-nick-viall-while-competing-on-the-bachelorette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/shawn-booth-reveals-how-real-his-beef-was-with-nick-viall-while-competing-on-the-bachelorette\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Booth Reveals How Real His \u2018Beef\u2019 Was With Nick Viall While Competing on \u2018The Bachelorette\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">No matter what was shown on TV, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/shawn-booth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Shawn Booth<\/span><\/a><\/strong> can confidently say there\u2019s no more beef with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/nick-viall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Nick Viall<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNo, not anymore. We were [beefing]. That was real,\u201d Booth, 38, shared on the April 2 episode of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XiWjdkf36OA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Tomi Lahren Is Fearless<\/span><\/a>\u201d podcast. \u201cIt was also very exaggerated, but it was real on the show. But then once you get off the show, you can\u2019t tell what is real and what\u2019s not real from what the producers are telling you, from what these people are telling you, from what this person is telling you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Both Viall, 45, and Booth appeared on <strong>Kaitlyn Bristowe<\/strong>\u2019s season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-bachelorette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Bachelorette<\/i><\/span><\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the finale ended with Booth and Bristowe, 40, engaged, the pair split in 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kaitlyn-bristowe-calls-past-relationship-with-shawn-booth-a-success\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kaitlyn-bristowe-calls-past-relationship-with-shawn-booth-a-success\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Kaitlyn Bristowe Reflects on Shawn Booth Relationship, Calls It &#8216;A Success&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTaylor Hill\/WireImage Kaitlyn Bristowe reflected on her season of The Bachelorette nine years after it premiered in 2015 \u00ad\u2014 and her relationship with ex-fianc\u00e9 Shawn Booth. \u201cI still like to think of my season and the relationship that came out of it \u2014 it was somewhat of a success,\u201d Bristowe, 39, shared during the \u201cBachelor [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019ve heard from her a couple of times from the past 10 years,\u201d Booth told podcast host <strong>Tomi Lahren<\/strong>. \u201cWe both live in Nashville, and I ran into her maybe once in the same place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To this day, Booth remembers fan sentiment surrounding Bristowe\u2019s season of <i>The Bachelorette<\/i>. At the time, he thought he was being the \u201chero who stole this girl from this evil guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEvery time I turn the corner, this producer is talking negatively about Nick,\u201d he claimed. \u201cI go to the airport, people are like, \u2018You really gotta make sure, you\u2019re gonna be Captain America, and he\u2019s so bad.\u2019 It\u2019s, like, everywhere you turn. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s up and what\u2019s down.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4304952\" style=\"width: 738px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:138.71428571429%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4304952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Shawn Booth Reveals How Real His Beef Was With Nick Viall While Competing on The Bachelorette\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaitlyn-bristowe-shawn-booth-the-bachelorette.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Kaitlyn Bristowe and Shawn Booth<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Rick Rowell \/ ABC \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now that the cameras have been far away from Booth\u2019s life, the personal trainer and owner of BC Block Nashville has a different perspective on some things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLooking back on it, it was definitely a lot more exaggerated than what it was,\u201d he shared. \u201cBut it was a real beef on the show. I was trying to \u2018protect my girl\u2019 at the time. I didn\u2019t think he was there for the \u2018right reasons.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">More than 10 years after appearing on ABC\u2019s hit reality show, Booth\u2019s life looks completely different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In December 2023, Booth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/shawn-booth-calls-son-the-greatest-thing-thats-ever-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcomed a baby boy<\/a> with girlfriend <strong>Audrey \u201cDre\u201d Joseph<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOur boy is two. Two years of learning who he is &amp; feeling the world shift because he\u2019s in it,\u201d the couple wrote via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSLWQqjEeoX\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Instagram<\/span><\/a> in December 2025. \u201cLocks truly is joy personified &amp; if you look up the definition for \u2018laughter\u2019 in the dictionary, I\u2019m certain you\u2019ll see a picture of his face. We already miss these days we are living in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/shawn-booth-reveals-how-real-his-beef-was-with-nick-viall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what was shown on TV, Shawn Booth can confidently say there\u2019s no more beef with Nick Viall. \u201cNo, not anymore. We were [beefing]. That was real,\u201d Booth, 38, shared on the April 2 episode of the \u201cTomi Lahren Is Fearless\u201d podcast. \u201cIt was also very exaggerated, but it was real on the show. 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