Who Is Sydney Hightower, The 'Bachelor' Contestant With The Hannah Brown Connection?

Korin Miller

January 21, 2020 3:04 AM

Peter Weber has been slowly weeding out women in his quest to find The One on The Bachelor, and a lot of the crew thats left looks like they have staying power. Among them is Sydney Hightower, whos been getting some attention lately. Still, shes been kinda low drama, which means she hasn't had a ~ton~ of airtime just yet.

Who Is Sydney Hightower?

Theres a lot of interesting stuff to know about Sydney, though, including the fact that she went to school with Hannah Brown. Heres what you need to know.

Yup, shes Hannah Browns former classmate.

Youd think this would have come up right away but, nope. That hasnt been the case at all. Sydney was actually classmates with Hannah at Tuscaloosa County High School and they were even in the same class of 13, according to the Tuscaloosa News . Hannah was also VP of her class and homecoming queen, so its kinda unlikely that Sydney didnt at least know of her (and maybe vice versa).

This isnt a huge secret, though: Chris Harrison mentioned it when he revealed this seasons contestants and Sydney posted the video on Instagram. Still, its kind of weird .

She also went to the same college as Hannah.

They both went to the University of Alabama after graduating high school, per the Tuscaloosa News. This one is less weird (more than 38,000 people go to UA, after all), but still. Theres definitely a solid Hannah B connection going on here.

She had a bad breakup before going on The Bachelor.

Sydney laid it all out there in her Bachelor bio , noting that her last breakup really crushed her. She was planning on moving in with her boyfriend of two years because she thought he was one. But at the last minute, he told Sydney she was not the one for him and broke it off with her, it says. Dang, that sucks.

Stop reading now if you don't want to see spoilers ahead!

Shes going to be part of some drama.

According to some show spoilers from Reality Steve , fellow contestant Alayah Benavidez isn't there for the "right reasons and she and Sydney get into it during an extreme pillow fight group date. Can't. WAIT.