Tyler Cameron’s hometown date on The Bachelorette season 15 wasn’t actually filmed in his own house.
“My mom busted her a– [and] I learned she painted the house, she had my aunts, uncles [and] everyone over there working their tails off to get this house looking good,” Cameron, 32, recalled in a Tuesday, March 11, TikTok video. “It was really beat-up and as she did all that work, the Bachelorette producers told us, ‘It’s too small. It’s not going to work.’”
According to Cameron, his family hosted lead Hannah Brown “from my cousin’s house.”
“We hosted the dinner and hangout there,” Cameron recalled. “I was very upset about this. I was like, ‘I grew up in this house. I’ve lived there since I was a baby. It’s the first house I lived in. This means a lot to me.’ Didn’t matter.”
Cameron appeared on Brown’s season of The Bachelorette in 2019, eventually introducing her to his loved ones during a Florida hometown date. In addition to meeting his whole family at a cousin’s residence, the contractor took Brown, now 30, on a boat excursion.
“To make matters worse, the boat that I went on wasn’t even my boat. And why? Because they said my boat was too small,” he further claimed. “I told Hannah. I was like, ‘This isn’t my boat. This isn’t my house. I’m not trying to front.’”
Tyler Cameron and Hannah Brown on ‘Going Home with Tyler Cameron.’ Courtesy of Prime
According to Cameron, he was “pissed off” that he couldn’t film in his real properties. (The Bachelor franchise has not publicly addressed Cameron’s claims though many other show alums have also alleged they filmed hometowns in different houses for similar reasons.)
“But, it is what it is. I can’t do anything about it,” Cameron concluded. “Lesson of the story: It’s not about the size of the boat, it’s about the size of the motion in the ocean. That’s all.”
He added, “It pisses me off when they do that, like, let’s be real. [I’ll] show you my little-a– house that I grew up in since I was a baby, show you the holes in the wall. I don’t care.”
Cameron was the runner-up on Brown’s season and they’ve since remained friendly as they each romantically moved on with Tate Madden and Adam Woolard, respectively. He even reunited with Brown for a 2024 episode of his Going Home renovation docuseries.
“I really had a call and a favor for her,” Cameron exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2024. “I really needed her to do this for me because my designer Jess [Quintero] was too busy. She’s like, ‘Ty, I can’t do this anymore.’ I go, ‘Jess, this is my dream home to renovate. We have to find a way to do this.’”
He added, “[Hannah] came down and she was a rock star. She had a beautiful design. She worked her butt off and she was a complete pro and just so great to work with. I think we had to iron some things out, but I thought we worked out honestly better than expected. I was curious to see how it was going to be, but she’s such a trooper and she did such a great job.”
Brown worked as an interior designer before appearing on Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor, which aired ahead of her own journey as the lead.
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