Betty Who and Jeff Perla Talk Romantic FOMO and Queer Representation On The One That Got Away
pride.comThe One That Got Away are finally going to get the answers to those questions — and discover if the one they were really meant to be with was someone they’d already met.Leading the six contestants through this radical dating experiment is musician Betty Who, who shares how moved she was watching the participants be so vulnerable, and how it led her to question if perhaps, if she were single, she might want to go on a similar journey. “Let me level with you.
If I was watching the show, and I wasn’t the host, and if I saw it for the first time and I was single, I’d probably be like, ‘oh my God, I want to go so bad’,” she tells PRIDE. “I do have a short list of ones that got away.
People who I was like, ‘if I had a portal, these would be the people who would come through the portal.’ I definitely have a list — I won’t share it publicly, but I definitely have a list,” she confesses.Who isn’t the only out cast member in this experiment: one of the participants, Jeff Perla, an out gay man, is looking to reconnect with some of his former loves.
Perla runs a travel blog, which has been great for meeting people, but not so much for making lasting connections. Naturally, he wondered if maybe, just maybe, he’s already met the one.As the sole out contestant on the show, it might have been natural for Perla to feel pressure to represent, but as he told PRIDE, he was excited to be the kind of queer man he needed to see when he was growing up. “I personally felt like I had nobody to watch, right?
