Bachelorette 15 - Luke Parker - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

5. Luke Parker: 24, Gainesville, GA. Played college baseball at Faulkner University in Alabama. Grew up in Florida, also attended High Point University and played baseball there as well. Listed as an entrepreneur, so your guess is as good as mine as to what he does. Besides Crossfit.

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Instagram – luke_parker777 (set to private as of 3/12)
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nd4reality wrote:Imo good choice. He’s familiar to her and has a very direct approach.

https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/life/gainesville-resident-luke-parker-to-be-on-upcoming-season-of-the-bachelorette-in-may/


Layne Saliba  
Updated: March 15, 2019, 11:59 a.m.
 
Luke Parker is hoping to turn Hannah B. to Hannah P. at the end of their journey on the upcoming season of “The Bachelorette.”

The show, which will premiere May 13 on ABC, is set to start filming this week, so Luke, a Gainesville resident, has already been sworn to secrecy and had his phone and all other forms of communication confiscated upon arriving in Los Angeles to record the show.

Hannah Brown, an Alabama native, is this season’s bachelorette, who was also on the just-concluded season of “The Bachelor.” When she was announced as the new bachelorette on the March 12 finale of “The Bachelor,” Luke and four other men who will be on the upcoming season met her for their first time on live TV.
“You are absolutely stunning,” Luke, 24, said as he met Brown and went in for a hug — all in front of a studio audience. “You are the only one that I wanted to be the next bachelorette. And now that I’m here actually holding your hands, in real life, seriously this is just blowing my mind and I seriously cannot wait to get to know you on a deeper level and just go on this adventure with you.”

Luke, originally from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, grew up playing baseball. He played at Polk State College in Winter Haven, Florida, then at High Point University in North Carolina and finally at Faulkner University in Alabama, where he ended up graduating.

He works for the family business, Parker Warehouse, an import and export company that has been around for 45 years, but he’ll be listed as an entrepreneur on the show.

There’s not much of a first-hand account as to how everything up to this point happened for Luke, but it’s safe to say he never saw it coming.

“This time last year, he went through a bad break up,” said Hannah Parker, Luke’s sister-in-law. ”I watch the show, so my husband and I were just sitting there and I was like, ‘I’m going to apply Luke for the show and just see what happens,’ thinking he had no chance of getting on the show.”

She filled out the application without her brother-in-law knowing and decided to let the chips fall where they may. A few months later, Luke got a call from some people with “The Bachelorette” and things started to fall into place.

“He and I had a conversation before he left and they hadn’t told him who it was going to be yet, but he didn’t want it to be anybody else,” said Mike Parker, Luke’s brother. “He didn’t really want to be on the show if it was anybody else other than (Brown).”

As Mike and Hannah did some digging online, they had a good feeling Brown would be the next bachelorette. But they still didn’t know for certain until it was announced March 12.

But the biggest surprise of all came on Monday, when the brother appeared on screen at the end of “The Bachelor.”