MAFS has had its share of wannabe stars over the years, and this season’s Ivan has some questioning if he’s chasing the spotlight, thanks to Instagram pictures of him with Cyrell Paule, from the MAFS class of 2019, and seasoned Bachelor villain Keira Maguire.
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There’s also the fact that he applied for a different reality show before stumbling across the MAFS application process…
But the 30-year-old real estate agent tells Who he’s simply seizing an opportunity that came along at the right time.
“I was in a little bit of a rut, and I thought, I’m a bit lost for love… why not?” he says. “I’m a roll with the punches sort of guy.”
Not one to keep his opinions to himself, Ivan looks set to divide people with his confident nature, and admits that his past love failures have come from women not giving him a chance to prove himself.
“Dating in the past, people would want me for 80% of Ivan or even 90%, but I could never find somebody that would want to take me for 100% of who I am and what I represent,” he says.
So who exactly is 100% Ivan?
“I can be really funny, I can be a little kid, I can be prim and proper and professional,” he says. “I like to keep active. I love my cars. I’m very heavily into cars, speed, adrenaline. I’m a bit of an adrenaline junkie!”