When Madison Prewett Troutt saw her friends watching “The Bachelor” years ago, she told them to turn off that “trash TV.” When they said she would be great on the show, she told them, “I would never go on a show like that.”
Yet that is exactly what ended up happening. Troutt, who is an outspoken Christian, the wife of a pastor, and a mom of one, joins Candace Cameron Bure for Season 13 of Bure’s podcast to talk about “living with honesty, integrity, and authenticity.”
In the first episode, which released Jan. 6, Troutt talked to Bure about how God called Troutt to be on “The Bachelor,” what it was like to be on the show as a practicing Christian, and why she is grateful for the experience, despite the trauma she had to navigate.
“I had never really seen the show before. I didn’t really know what I was saying yes to, but I really felt like it was what the Lord was leading me to do, even though it truly made no sense,” Troutt said. “And it’s so funny because since then I’ve had multiple people come up to me and be like, ‘I want to apply to go on The Bachelor.’ And I’m like, ‘Absolutely not.’ Like, I would not let anybody that I love go on this show.”
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“I did not watch ‘The Bachelor,’” Madison Prewett Troutt told Candace Cameron Bure. “I judged my friends who did.”
Bure is known for playing D.J. Tanner in “Full House” and “Fuller House,” as well as for starring in numerous Hallmark Christmas movies and being the chief creative officer of Great American Family. Troutt hosts the “Stay True” podcast and is the author of several books, including her latest, “Dare To Be True: Defeat the Lies That Bind You and Live Out the Truth That Frees You.”
Troutt ended up being the runner-up on Season 24 of “The Bachelor,” which aired in 2020. She broke up with bachelor Peter Weber because their values, particularly about not having sex before marriage, were not the same.
At age 23, Troutt lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and was co-leading a small group. She told Bure that, at that point in her life, she had graduated from Bible college, had dated a youth pastor, and was working in foster care and adoption. One night she arrived for the small group meeting, and all of her friends were watching “The Bachelor.”
“We’re supposed to be opening up the Word of God and immediately I’m judging them,” Troutt said. “I’m like, ‘You guys, this is trash TV. We are not watching this. Turn the show off.’” Later that night, unbeknownst to Troutt, her friends filled out and submitted an application on her behalf for her to be a contestant on the show.
When Madison Prewett Troutt saw her friends watching “The Bachelor” years ago, she told them to turn off that “trash TV.” When they said she would be great on the show, she told them, “I would never go on a show like that.”Click to Post
