On September 20, Season 19 of The Bachelorette concludes with a three-hour finale, but one day before, one of the season’s two protagonists, Gabby Windey, embarks on a new trip! The 31-year-old is a participant in the Disney Plus-streaming season 31 of Dancing With the Stars. Throughout the dancing journey, Gabby is paired with Val Chmerkovskiy. Their collaboration was revealed on September 8.

Gabby’s season on The Bachelorette, in which she featured with her closest friend Rachel Recchia, has been a whirlwind. During dream suite week, Gabby severed connections with Johnny DePhillipo and Jason Alabaster, leaving her with just Erich Schwer. The pair exchanged “I love you,” but the September 13 episode concluded with Erich confessing he was unsure if he was ready to be engaged.

Before Gabby’s Bachelorette trip concludes and her DWTS journey begins, read more about her below!

Gabby is an NFL cheerleader.

Gabby was a Denver Broncos cheerleader from the 2016 season through the 2020 season. In 2021, she earned the Pop Warner Humanitarian Award. She was the first woman to get the award, which is typically bestowed upon NFL players. According to the group, Gabby’s work as a nurse established her as a “model spokesperson for young student-athletes around the nation.”

Gabby has dated three other Bachelor Nation men

In addition to Clayton, who crushed Gabby’s heart during season 26 of The Bachelor, Gabby has had strong relationships with other Bachelor Nation stars. Gabby dated Dean Unglert from Rachel Lindsay’s season of The Bachelorette while in college. Dean revealed in October 2021, “She was one of my primary exes.” “She was my college girlfriend. Dancing With the Stars Season 31 Cast News? Who is Comming Back? Producers contacted me and inquired, “Hey, we’re considering casting this individual; what do you think of her?” We are aware you dated a decade ago. And I thought, ‘Oh, she’s wonderful. If she is chosen for the show, she will either be the winner or the next Bachelorette.’ I am convinced that.”

Blake Horstmann from Becca Kufrin’s season is one of Gabby’s ex-boyfriends. According to Blake, the couple dated for a few months before he made the news public in October 2021. “Gabby was a close buddy of one of my closest college pals. They shared an apartment,” he stated. “I met Gabby before my appearance on The Bachelorette. I like to say maybe 2015 or 2016. We hung around for a while, so I am pretty familiar with her.

Gabby reiterated in January 2022 that she knew Blake, but that they had never dated. Gabby stated, “We never truly went on a date.” “There were no paid beverages. No supper was paid for. He is clearly a buddy of a friend; we had spent time together and whatnot, but there was no courting. No formality, no exclusivity, and once again, that was a very long time ago.”

Gabby is a nurse

Gabby is a critical care nurse. She works at the University Hospital of Colorado. She was at the forefront of the epidemic of COVID-19. In 2020, she stated, “We’re all depending on one other, and that becomes a new normal really quickly.”

“Healthcare as a whole is always evolving because we’re always striving to do things the optimal way, which requires evidence-based practice and constant reevaluation. Therefore, we are accustomed to changing, although it is difficult and, of course, unique due to the gravity of the situation and the number of people it affects.

Gabby is from Illinois

Gabby was born in Illinois’s O’Fallon. Her older sister is called Jazz. Gabby stated in The Bachelor that she has a distant relationship with her mother. “As a child, she was quite loving, and then she would abruptly withdraw her attention,” recalled Gabby. “I thought, ‘If my mother can quit loving me, why couldn’t anyone else?'” Gabby has been candid on The Bachelorette about her troubled relationship with her mother.

Gabby is incredibly close to her father, who played a unique role on her hometown date on The Bachelor. Before the shooting, her father’s girlfriend was afflicted with cancer, thus he did not want to risk exposing her to COVID-19 by personally participating. Her father was, however, allowed to participate in the hometown date remotely by carrying Love Actually-style cue cards.

Gabby is a dog mom

Gabby is the happy mother to Leonardo, a Goldendoodle. She states that her prospective partner’s support of Leonardo is “non-negotiable” since they are a “package deal.”