Season six of Too Hot to Handle may have been upfront about Lana’s rules, but Katherine LaPrell didn’t know what to expect. After five seasons of disguising the reality series during casting, Netflix’s latest installment let the incoming cast members know that they were signing up for a retreat that fined sexual activities and rewarded emotional connections. Still, the L.A-based model, who was nominated by her friends to join the show, had no idea what she was in for.
“This girl needed help,” LaPrell says of her pre-THTH self, who had been living it up as a single woman for the first time in eight years. Speaking with Marie Claire after the first batch of episodes hit Netflix, the 28-year-old admitted that she was “hella thirsty” coming into the villa, hence all of the rule breaks with returning season 5 alum Louis Russell. However, eventually she decided to explore the more-emotional connection she had with Charlie Jeer, a 21-year-old model from Kent, England. Despite a rough patch where Charlie got too cozy on a date with bombshell Sabrina Zima, Katherine and Charlie worked through it and ended the season as finalists for the $100,000 prize.
