Gabby Windey Praises Traitors Season 3 Costar Chrishell Stause as a 'Trailblazer for Me in the Queer Space' (Exclusive)

• Gabby Windey appeared on Clayton Echard’s season Bachelor before becoming the franchise’s first Bachelor with Rachel Recchia in 2022.
• The Long wind the podcast host will compete in the upcoming third season Traitors along with Wells Adams, Nikki Garcia, “Boston” Rob Marino, Chrishell Stause and more
• Windey, who has been dating comedian Robby Hoffman since May 2023, tells PEOPLE that she went into filming the competition series Peacock without a plan, but was “trying to stay true to myself.”

The goal of Traitors may be the last one standing at the end of the game and take home a share of the $250,000 prize, but for Gabby Windey, competing on the upcoming third season of The Peacock also allowed her to meet someone she admires.

“I was so excited to meet Chrishell because she is a pioneer in the queer space for me,” Windey, 33, tells PEOPLE of Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause. “She used to publicly date men and then she just went out, no holds barred, with G, and the public reaction was so amazing. I was excited to meet her. She is amazing.”

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Windey, who teamed up with Flamin’ Hot to encourage Flamin’ Hot Cheetos fans to try one of the brand’s 25+ other spicy “sidechips,” got engaged to Erich Schwer on her season finale Bachelor which aired in September 2022. The two announced in early November of that year that they had broken up, and in August 2023, Windey said she was dating her husband, comedian Robby Hoffman.

Similarly, Stause, 43, confirmed her relationship with non-binary musician G Flip in May 2022 following her divorce from actor Justin Hartley.

Chrishell Stause and G Flip at SiriusXM Studios in LA on May 25, 2023.

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Windey told PEOPLE in October 2023 that Stause sent her a DM shortly after she went public with Hoffman, 34. “She was so sweet [and] he invited me to the release of the G Flip album, but unfortunately we couldn’t go, and we have the same hairdresser,” Dancing with the stars the alum said. “I know she’s really great, and it was really great.”

Along with fangirling over Stause when Traitors of season 3 filmed in Scotland earlier this year, Windey says co-star Nikki Garcia has become her “big sister.”

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“She’s had a great career in wrestling and she’s been in the industry forever, and she’s been so great,” Windey says of Garcia, 40. “It’s been fun meeting all the Housewives. They are so powerful, they are not afraid to fight, so I learned a few things from them. But really, they all had such great personalities. It was really fun interacting with them and working with them.”

Housewives Chanel Ayan, Dolores Catania, Robyn Dixon and Dorinda Medley will compete on Traitors season 3, joined by fellow Bravo star Ciara Miller from Summer house and Tom Sandoval from Vanderpump Rules. The cast also includes Bachelor in Paradise bartender Wells Adams, Bob the Drag Queen (RuPaul’s Drag Race)Jeremy Collins (Survived), Dylan Efron (Down to Earth with Zac Efron), Bob Harper (The biggest loser), Britney Haynes (Big Brother), “Boston” Rob Mariano (Survivor, the amazing race, Island Agreed or Not Agreed), Lord Ivar Mountbatten (British Royal), Danielle Reyes (big Brother), Tony Vlachos (Survived) and Carolyn Wiger (Survived).

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Windey admits she wasn’t into it Traitors with a plan on how to cope with the competition.

“My plan is always to not have a plan,” she says. “I just have to go in and figure things out for myself. I think I’m a pretty insightful person and I like to come to my own conclusions without any bias. So, I came in with my eyes wide open and tried to stay true to myself. I think I have a pretty good intuition being a woman and a nurse, so I think that’s helped me a lot.”

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The Long wind the podcast host also learned that she has a pretty good poker face.

“I think I’m pretty hard to read, and that’s something I’m just learning with Robby,” Windey says. “He tells me all the time. I had no idea, but I think it helped me Traitorsbecause half the time I don’t know what I’m thinking about, so it’s hard for other people too. I’m a Capricorn, I think that’s a Capricorn trait.”

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