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Vanessa from ‘The Bachelor’ Has Been Keeping a Secret That’ll Probably Change Your Mind About Her

If you’re the type of casual Bachelor fan who never bothers to learn the contestants’ last names, you’re probably saving yourself from a few headaches. But this also keeps you from deep-diving into the contestants’ pasts and discovering all their dirty laundry, which is honestly one of the best parts of each season.

Known to you as merely Vanessa, this season’s Vanessa Grimaldi seems to be winning Nick over week after week, and her zero-gravity, puke-filled one-on-one made us fall in love with her. But Vanessa has been keeping a secret and it’s pretty much unforgivable. She’s…an…actress.

This weekend an unsuspecting fan spotted Vanessa while watching Blue Mountain State.

Which led others to find her IMDb page. This says it all, folks. Not only did Vanessa play “Girl” in Blue Mountain State, but she had two other roles in Being Human and Ascension

Now, Vanessa hasn’t had an IMDb-worthy acting role since 2014 and her career on the show is listed as special education teacher, so it’s still possible she really did come on The Bachelor to find love. But who am I kidding? This information is permanently etched in my brain, where it will corrode my perceptions for the remainder of the season.

Erin was previously the Entertainment Editor of Her Campus. She graduated from Belmont University in 2015, where she studied English and Elementary Education. Before joining the team full-time, she was a national contributing blogger, viral content writer and editorial intern at HC. In addition to her work for Her Campus, Erin was formerly an editorial assistant at Nfocus Magazine and has been published by HelloGiggles and Man Repeller. In her free time, you can find Erin falling for yet another TV boyfriend (her long list of ex-lovers includes Nathan Scott, Chuck Bass and Pacey Witter, to name a few), reading chick lit and/or celeb memoirs and hanging with her puppy/soulmate, Cooper.