Yes, Chris Harrison Would Date A Former 'Bachelor' Contestant!

Exclusive! "I'll never say never to anything," the host teases.

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No one gives advice on love quite like Bachelor and Bachelorette host Chris Harrison. No matter the situation — be it right after you tell the man you thought you loved, "Ess not OK," or the moment you kick a man out for his faux pas of forgetting to mention his girlfriend back home — Harrison always seems to know the right thing to say. Don't even try to deny that you've applied his words of wisdom to your own dating life once or twice.

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Unfortunately, Chris Harrison's own romantic life hasn't been all, well, roses. He split with his wife of 18 years, Gwen Jones, two years ago.

"Get yourself right and happy before you do anything, before you bring anybody else into any relationships," Harrison shares his life-after-divorce advice with YourTango in a recent interview. "Figure out where you are in your life, no matter what that is."

Since the divorce, Chris has been spotted holding hands and cuddling up to a few women, but he has yet to hand out his final rose — and he's not throwing out the possibility of that rose going to a former Bachelor contestant.

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"I'll never say never to anything — you get in trouble when you do that — but definitely while the show is going on, whether it's Bachelor or it's Bachelorette, I never really look at it as an opportunity," Harrison said.

And while he may not be shutting the fantasy-suite door on dating former contestants, he slams any talk of Chris Harrison being named the next Bachelor — despite pleading from viewers.

"People have to understand this is what I do ... and this is what I love to do. I love television, and I love hosting it. And I love hosting and creating the show that is The Bachelor. So I hope people understand that I believe in what the show's about, and I believe in what it does. And I also believe in what I do, and I really love my job. And so, I hate to say that it's clinical that I approach it as a job. I approach these people as friends, to a certain degree, but ... it really is work," said Harrison.

Sorry, single women; it doesn't look like he'll be accepting a rose from ABC any time soon.

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