The Bachelorette alum Blake Moynes apparently isn't ruling out an appearance on Bachelor in Paradise following his split from ex-fiancee Katie Thurston.

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Over the last five months or so since announcing his split from Katie in late October 2021, Blake has been trying to move on, and he recently said things are "really good now."

But Blake is still single, and so fans have been wondering if he'd be open to a return on The Bachelor, The Bachelorette or Bachelor in Paradise.

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During a Q&A session with his Instagram followers on March 29, Blake, 31, joked about returning to reality TV.

"Duh, Paradise! Count it down! Can't wait to get on that beach, get back into it," Blake wrote to a fan, according to Us Weekly.

The Canadian wildlife manager added, "Probably not, never say never, but not unless it was a great opportunity for something, but I'd like to not."

Blake also didn't seem interested in giving The Bachelor franchise another shot during a February appearance on "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast," when he said he'd like to go back to dating "like in the old days" and potentially stumble across a woman "in-person" on any random occasion.

Blake, however, admitted he may be "too picky" now after learning from his failures and realizing exactly what he does and does not want in a partner.

Blake also told Ben Higgins that he blames social media for giving him false hope about women who initially appear incredible and then disappoint.

"Social media gives us a false indication of what people are, and I realized that... You can lay out all your best cards on social media so we see that, and so you're almost always going to be let down," Blake complained.

"And so, I'm done with being scammed in a way... We are the best version of ourselves on social media, and so I'm just taking a step back from that... and [from thinking prematurely], 'Wow, all the boxes are checked here.'"

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As for what Blake's looking for in his future girlfriend or wife, he said he'd like to find a woman who is ambitious and adventurous.

"But I know I could be elevated with that right person," Blake shared with Ben. "Until then, I'm not going to chase it. I think I know what I want and I just hope it falls in my lap."

Viewers watched Katie accept Blake's marriage proposal on The Bachelorette's Season 17 finale, which filmed in April 2021 and aired in August of last year. Their split seemed sudden to viewers since the announcement was made only two months after the show's finale.

Blake said on the "Talking It Out with Bachelor Nation" podcast in late November that he was "not thinking about" being on the reality series again and starring on The Bachelor sounded "hectic and exhausting" to him.

"I'll be dating in the real world when I'm ready, and I don't know when that will be," he claimed at the time.

And on the possibility of joining Bachelor in Paradise's eighth-season cast, Blake said, "I think you would be very surprised to find me there. ABC and the show has been very, very good to me and always checking on me with how the breakup has been going."

Blake probably assumed Bachelor in Paradise was going to air in Summer 2022, but ABC has yet to officially announce the spinoff's return.

"One thing I did say to one of them was, 'I'm done, man. I'm done thinking I know I've found my person and coming out gunning for someone, I am done. I'm sitting back and not chasing again on this f-cking show -- ever. Like, I can't. I just can't,'" Blake explained on "Talking It Out."

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Blake admitted he had put himself out there "too many times" and was "too bold in thinking" he knew exactly what he wants and would find it on a reality TV show.

"And then I get there and it all falls apart," Blake lamented. "And so my approach is completely different in life now. [It's], 'Let it come to me naturally, maybe in the real world...' I'm done."

Blake concluded, "I failed that way three times already and with the whole world watching. So let's try a different approach."

Katie went Instagram official with her current boyfriend, John Hersey -- who was eliminated from her The Bachelorette season during Week 2 of the process -- in late November, just a few weeks after she announced her broken engagement to Blake.

Blake admitted he was "flabbergasted" and "speechless" about Katie and John's romance.

Because of how quickly Katie seemed to move on from their relationship, Blake told Mike Johnson and Bryan Abasolo on their podcast how he's convinced Katie had emotionally cheated on him.

But Katie and John have both insisted Katie never cheated and they only became romantically involved once Katie became single again after her split from Blake.

John, in fact, released a statement via Reddit late last year on Katie's behalf denying any "wrongdoing" on their part. John insisted at the time that his relationship with Katie was "ALWAYS PLATONIC."

John also complained about how Blake had handled his breakup with Katie in the press last week on the "Off the Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe" podcast.

"What really pissed me off about that, like, listening to that podcast was when there started to be a narrative get painted that she was putting no effort in, and Blake was the only one putting effort in at the end," John said.

He added, "I watched her suffer at the end, before there was anything between us. And it just pissed me off."

Katie and John are now living together in San Diego, CA, and have purchased a van together so they can travel across the country and explore new places together.

Katie previously hinted on social media that she and Blake were fighting too much during their six-month relationship and broke up due to their different communication styles.

The TikTok star and social-media influencer also suggested that Blake was unable to make her happy and vice versa.

An insider told The Sun late last year that Katie's "outbursts eventually became too much" for Blake "to handle."

Before vying for Katie's heart on The Bachelorette, Blake also competed for Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams on The Bachelorette's sixteenth edition in 2020.

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