‘The Bachelor’ Star Daisy Kent ‘Excited to Cheer’ on ‘Bachelorette’ Jenn Tran [Exclusive]
Former The Bachelor finalist Daisy Kent will be watching Jenn Tran in her search for true love on this season of The Bachelorette. Kent is “excited to cheer on” her former romantic rival and can’t wait to support her in her journey. The former reality star is also excited to parlay her television fame into a cause close to home and spoke to Showbiz Cheat Sheet all about it.
Daisy Kent will be watching the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’
After Daisy Kent told Joey Graziadei she realized he wasn’t her person and that she loved him but he wouldn’t choose her, on Season 28 of The Bachelor, she became a fan favorite to lead the franchise for the newest season of The Bachelorette. Ultimately, Jenn Tran became Season 21’s lead, and Kent will watch with interest as she navigates this new season of her romantic life.
Daisy Kent weighs in on Jenn Tran’s season of ‘The Bachelorette’
Do you have any thoughts about the new season of The Bachelorette? Are you watching it, or have you moved on from it?
Daisy Kent: I’m excited to watch it. I started watching it. I’m excited to watch Jenn, and it will be awesome. I’m excited to cheer her on; she will do a great job. So yeah, I’m just thrilled to support her. And also, yeah, I do love the franchise, and there’s been nothing but impressive to me.
Being on the series has also been a springboard for other things for you.
Daisy Kent: Yeah. I did not think on the scale that it’s been on. I didn’t know when I went on that my hearing loss story would impact the way it did. And now, seeing that it did, it does feel like it was meant to happen and that everything in my life has happened for a reason.
Daisy Kent is working to bring awareness to Meningitis after a college health scare
Why did you feel that now is the time to tell the world about your scare from meningitis?
Daisy Kent: So I’ve talked a lot about my past with my hearing loss and Lyme disease, but meningitis isn’t something that I’ve got to talk a lot about. That’s why I partnered with GSK on their Ask2BSure campaign: I want to raise more awareness about meningitis.
I would like to know your experiences when you realized it had touched your life.
Daisy Kent: So when I was a freshman in college, I woke up with a horrible headache. I went to bed, and around 2 am, I woke up. It was really, really bad. I went back to sleep, then woke up, went to biology class, and turned my head, and I had just a shocking feeling that went down my spine, like nothing I’ve ever felt before.
So I went to the doctor on campus right away, and then they had me go to the ER. A guy came in in a hazmat suit, and they just started doing a bunch of tests because they kind of suspected that I had meningitis, and my vitals were crazy, so they were apprehensive. So they started treating me as if I had bacterial meningitis. It came back that I had viral meningitis. I learned that only bacterial meningitis is vaccine-preventable.
Dr. Aprel Barnes, a pediatrician in West Columbia, South Carolina, explained how the disease can be transmitted. “Teens and young adults are at increased risk of meningitis, particularly from the B serogroup, due to their age and common activities, namely kissing, sharing drinks and utensils, and living in close quarters (i.e., college or military barracks).
CDC data from 2015-2018 showed that meningitis B accounted for more than 60% of meningitis cases among teens and young adults 16 – 23 years old.”
For more information, you can go to Ask2BSure.com.
