Clint Arlis, a Reality TV show star who appeared on the Bachelorette on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s season of the reality show, has died at the age of 34.
The death of Bachelorette’s star Clint Arlis according to the report by People, was announced on Thursday on Twitter by his high school wrestling coach Scott Bayer of Batavia, Illinois, who shared some memories of the Batavia High School alum and his time on the team and touched on his professional wrestling career.
“It is with a heavy heart and a sense of profound loss that we announce the death of one of the Batavia Wrestling Program’s All-Time greats, 2005 graduate, Clint Arlis,” Bayer wrote about Bachelorette’s star Clint Arlis
“Clint was the beloved son of Coach Tom Arlis and his wife, Jamie, protective, loving older brother of his sister, Taylor, and the boyhood idol and best friend of his kid brother, Coach Logan Arlis.
“I have come to know Clint over the years since I joined Tom’s coaching staff and the Batavia Wrestling Family in the late fall of 2005, after his graduation. I have found him to be extraordinarily devoted to his family and deeply committed to the sport wrestling at a level few of us have ever reached in our careers.”
“I have come to know Clint over the years since I joined Tom’s coaching staff and the Batavia Wrestling Family in the late fall of 2005, after his graduation. I have found him to be extraordinarily devoted to his family and deeply committed to the sport wrestling at a level few of us have ever reach[ed] in our careers.”
“Just heard about the passing of Clint Arlis. I got a chance to get know Clint a little after our time on Kaitlyns season and I always enjoy are [sic] time and conversations,” Viall, 41, penned.
“A very kind, unique, and talented person who was taken from this world far too soon. RIP Clint.”
Although Bachelorette’s star Clint Arlis was eliminated from The Bachelorette in the third week, he developed a bromance on the show with fellow contestant JJ Lane.
Arlis studied architecture, as well as civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He’s since worked as a project manager at Lendlease and volunteered as a mentor to Chicago school kids.