The Bachelor alum Daisy Kent has gushed about why she’s smitten with her new boyfriend Thor Herbst, saying “it just clicks” with him.
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After finishing Joey Graziadei’s The Bachelor season in second place, Daisy rekindled a relationship with Thor, whom she had briefly dated four years ago while they both attended San Diego State University.
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Daisy went public with her relationship on May 5 by posting a photo with Thor on Instagram, and then she called Thor her “boyfriend” a couple of weeks later.
“I think it just clicks [with Thor],” Daisy shared with Kathy Swarts and Susan Noles on the June 12 episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour: Golden Hour” podcast.
“He is the most — he is the kindest person I’ve ever met in my life, and he would do anything for anybody. He is just a very giving and loving person.”
Susan called Daisy and her man “a perfect match,” and Daisy agreed.
“Yeah, I don’t know. He just has so much respect for everyone. He shows so many people so much respect, and he’s just constantly, like, uplifting me,” Daisy gushed.
Daisy revealed her favorite date with Thor thus far was an off-road racing experience.
“He loves doing that and it’s one of his passions, so to be in his element with him was really, really fun,” Daisy said.
The Bachelor 28 alum pointed out how she and Thor have been close friends for quite a while.
“After the show, he reached back out to me, and we decided to give it another shot. It’s going really good and I’m happy!” Daisy explained.
“I think everything happened for a reason,” she added. “This season of my life, I’m really happy and I’m just enjoying it all.”
Daisy acknowledged how “so much has changed” in her life since appearing on The Bachelor.
But she clarified, “It’s all really exciting and it’s all good things. It’s all really positive right now, and I haven’t had that in a really long time. So I’m just feeling really thankful and blessed.”
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Daisy said dating in the public eye “can be a little stressful at times,” especially since she and Thor are “still growing and figuring out” their relationship.
“I’ve been slowly integrating [him onto my social media], but we’ve been spending a lot of time together,” Daisy said. “We see each other pretty often, and we’re not that far [from each other].”
Daisy, who is currently living in Los Angeles, added, “We’re making it work. I think [in the days] coming up, I’ll be posting more, so I’m excited about that too.”
Daisy explained how being a public figure is “so new to her” and she feels like she’s in a “whole new world.” While a lot of her life has stayed the same, Daisy admitted it’s “also really different” from before her The Bachelor days.
Daisy previously revealed that Thor had been the one to break up with her in college.
“But we just weren’t at a place to have a relationship, and I think, at the time, we were both just very ‘college.’ We just wanted to have fun, so it was the best thing for both of us,” Daisy said during a May episode of the “Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad” podcast.
Thor apparently contacted Daisy after she had time to heal from her split with Joey. (Joey’s Final Rose Ceremony had filmed in November 2023, although it didn’t air until March 2024).
“I was going through so much… It wasn’t until after the show that we decided to try to give it a go,” Daisy shared, before adding, “I had no idea he was still interested.”
At the time, Daisy said Thor wasn’t exactly comfortable with being in the spotlight yet.
“He’s very supportive of what I want to do and all of this too, but he never, ever thought this would happen. I’m sure when articles started coming out, it was shocking,” Daisy noted.
Daisy spoke about her romance — but chose not to identify Thor by name — during the May 1 episode of the “Better Tomorrow with Hannah Brown” podcast.
Daisy shared with The Bachelorette’s Season 15 star, “I’m having fun and I’m happy. I’m going on multiple dates with somebody.”
When asked if she had met this man prior to The Bachelor, Daisy told Hannah Brown, “It’s kind of like we re-met. We’re way different than how we used to be.”
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Daisy elaborated, “I’m just having a good time, and there’s so much going on in my life too, so everything is crazy but everything is so good. I didn’t think all of this would come and evolve from [The Bachelor], but it did!”
Daisy and Thor have apparently been traveling quite a bit since they began dating — including stops in Mexico, Utah, and an appearance at Stagecoach in April. Thor has also gotten a taste of Daisy’s family vacations.
Although Daisy said she loved being on TV and had “the time of my life” on The Bachelor, she turned down The Bachelorette role two weeks before The Bachelor: After the Final Rose aired in March.
Daisy — who said she’d be open to a stint on Dancing with the Stars later this year — insisted that Thor had nothing to do with her decision to pass on The Bachelorette.
In fact, Daisy even said on an April episode of “The Squeeze” podcast that she’s “relieved” to have turned down The Bachelorette’s 21st season, which is set to premiere Monday, July 8 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.
After all, Daisy just received a cochlear implant in 2023, and before that, she had battled undiagnosed Lyme disease for years and finally sought an aggressive treatment program in Germany.
“I knew they would take care of me, and they made that very evident that they would,” Daisy revealed of The Bachelorette producers on an April episode of “The Viall Files” podcast.
“But also, the fact you’re hurting other people… I mean, there’s usually what — around 30 people? I can’t send everyone home at once, you know what I mean? What if I didn’t like them? I don’t think I could actually sit there and kiss somebody [I didn’t like].”
Daisy insisted she had “thought really long and hard” about the opportunity before passing on it.
“I think I know when things are getting too much and when it would be too much for me… I just felt like it was important that I kind of take control over my life and the path I want to do,” Daisy explained, adding, “It just didn’t feel right.”
On The Bachelor’s Season 28 finale, Daisy and Kelsey Anderson were Joey’s Final 2 bachelorettes in Tulum, Mexico.
After both women met Joey’s family and had a final date with him, Daisy predicted that she wasn’t going to end up with Joey. She felt something was “off” and ”missing” with Joey during their last date.
Daisy shared her suspicions with Kelsey Anderson, and then the women drove to the Final Rose Ceremony in the same van.
Daisy essentially beat Joey to the punch and broke up with him, and then Joey got engaged to Kelsey.
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