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Thirty-five-year-old Cory Shivar, a recent contestant on THE BACHELORETTE’S
11th season on ABC, credits his eight-year-old daughter with helping him
land a role on the well-known American TV show. “She was really, really
good on camera,” Cory says with a smile. A current resident of Pearland,
Cory originally grew up on a farm in North Carolina, where his parents and
brother still reside. Moving to the Houston area in 2007 to be closer to his
daughter, he’s spent the majority of his career in real estate and construction.
Currently he serves as a business development manager for BGT Interiors,
but in his free time, his daughter Alexis takes over. “We’re going to the
Taylor Swift concert here,” he says with a good laugh. Besides exercising
or casually hanging out with friends over dinner, you can find him at museums, concerts and festivals with his daughter.
And if you’re wondering how he ended up on the show in the first place,
his path was the result of a former coworker’s wife thinking he was a good
fit and submitting his application. After a few months of hearing nothing, the
producers called him at work, leaving a message for him. Convinced it was-

n’t real, Cory thought it to be a prank at first. Before he knew it though, he
was on a plane to Los Angeles, spending almost three weeks filming. Cory
made it to the fourth week of the show before elimination. And what’s
Cory’s take on the whole experience? “For me, it was a ‘why not’ moment
once I got it. I look at it like an experience. If I find love out of it, great, and
if not, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
Currently, Cory is in the works for a charity event in the Houston area called
Party Your Heart Out, done in association with the American Heart
Association. A fundraiser aimed at awareness for heart disease and strokes,
the event will feature four to six bachelors from multiple seasons, and is slated for sometime in October.
Cory is dressed Festari for Men.
Shoes: University Walnut Burnished Leather by Allen Edmonds – $368.
Suit: Super 150 fabric tone-on-tone, shadow stripe gray,
3-piece Tiglio suit – $695.

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