Salley Carson gets cagey when asked about Ex-Fiance

• Salley Carson made a brief appearance on season 8 of “The Bachelor in Paradise”.
• The 27-year-old said her love life will remain a “mystery” until she’s found The One.
• He told it to the season 8 women who had gathered at the bar.

After a brief appearance on season 8 of The Bachelor in Paradise, Salley Carson is being cautious about her romantic situation.

“They’ll just have to keep wondering,” the 27-year-old ABC alum exclusively told Us Weekly at the Bachelor in Paradise Tastemaker Event in Los Angeles when asked whether she had reunited with her ex-fiancé ahead of the Tuesday, November 22, finale. “It’s the one thing I do not talk about, clearly, ’cause I left the beach.”

Salley teased that her love life post-Paradise will remain “the biggest mystery of all time,” refusing to reveal whether she was seeing someone.

During Clayton Echard’s season 26 of The Bachelor, which aired earlier this year, viewers got to know the Virginia native. Because she was still adjusting to putting off her engagement, Salley, whose chyron read “formerly engaged,” decided not to take part in the limo entrances. One day after the cameras started rolling, she and her ex were supposed to get married.

Though her Bachelor journey was unsuccessful, Salley returned to the franchise in October hoping for another chance at finding The One. “I can’t believe I’m here! … Honestly, it feels good,” she told host Jesse Palmer when she arrived in Mexico. “I had to take care of some things at work — [but] my bag made it the first day of Paradise. … I literally made the decision at the gate. I checked my bags, I got to the gate, and I was like, ‘You know what? I can’t do it.’”

Salley made headlines in Paradise before she ever made an appearance on camera when her purported Stagecoach relationship with co-star Justin Glaze was made public. Lace Morris found Salley’s luggage in the midst of the commotion, but Wells Adams insisted she didn’t board the aircraft. Wells told “the narrative of Salley’s bag” to the season 8 women who had gathered at the bar, complete with a dramatic portrayal of what allegedly transpired.

Salley eventually made it to the beach, but she left on the October 11 programme and didn’t remain for very long. The surgery robot operator admitted to Us that she “got a good giggle out of” Wells’ recounting of the events even though she had previously refuted the account on the show.

“It was funny,” she said, adding that she wouldn’t have done anything differently if given the chance. “There [are] some bits and pieces that are true, but it is so exaggerated.”

The Bachelor Nation bartender, for his part, joked that his reenactment performance was Emmy-worthy. “[My wife, Sarah Hyland], was like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that you’re able to [learn lines], you did a good job,’” he told Us ahead of the season finale.

As for whether he’d spoken to Salley since her brief stint on the show, the Best in Dough host asserted that they were friendly. “Listen, I think that she’s been a great sport about it. And also, I think that how dumb it was [and] how ridiculously we portrayed it … tipped off the audience to the validity of it all,” he told Us. “She might have been [offended]. I don’t know. I hope not. It was just so silly. I think it was one of the funniest things we’ve done on the show, if I’m being honest. And I don’t think that, I hope that she doesn’t think of it as mean-spirited.”

Wells even hinted that he gave Salley an open invitation to return to Paradise — but she didn’t take the bait. “She was like, ‘Hell no,’” he teased.

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