Big Brother’s Whitney Williams Says Ex Gerrie Labuschagne Proposed Before He Left to Film ‘Too Hot to Handle’

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Season 3 of Too Hot to Handle just dropped on Netflix, but Gerrie Labuschagne already has a messy past with another reality star: Whitney Williams.The Big Brother season 23 alum exclusively told Us Weekly about her past relationship with Gerrie, whom she met in 2020 when he reached out to her via TikTok.“I had posted a video being, like, ‘This is why I’m single.

I’m an entrepreneur, I have high expectations and I’m a single mom,’” Whitney, who has two sons, told Us. “He saw that and reached out to me and then we talked — sometimes we would talk on the phone for 12 hours a day or be on FaceTime, like, we would just set the phone down and do chores while we’re on the phone together.

We’d fall asleep on the phone together. … Now I feel like it was all bulls—t.”For the majority of their nearly two-year relationship, Gerrie, a rugby player, was living in Japan.

According to Whitney — and photos and videos she shared of their relationship via TikTok — he sent her a ring and spoke to her sons — now 8 and 5 years old — about marrying her.“He proposed to me in November [2020],” she told Us. “We broke up, like, a couple of weeks after that and then he started filming Too Hot to Handle about a month after that.”While Whitney knew Gerrie had reality TV aspirations — he told her he was supposed to film a show called Beyond Parties of Paradise (which was the title used to mislead season 3 Too Hot to Handle contestants) when they initially connected — she was blindsided when he left to film.“After we broke up, he called me on his birthday and he was like, ‘I’m really depressed,’” she told Us, noting that she worried about Gerrie’s mental health after he “dropped off the face of the earth” in January 2021. “I thought something was