Gabby Windey Stuns in Sheer Black Lace at The Body Premiere as Wife Robby Hoffman Cheers Her On

Look, some red carpet moments are forgettable before the photographers even lower their cameras. This was not one of them.

Gabby Windey walked into the Los Feliz Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday night for the premiere of her new Netflix series The Body, and she did it in a see-through black lace dress that basically dared the entire room to look away. Nobody did.

She’s 35 now, and if you still think of her as just the girl from Bachelor Nation, you haven’t been paying attention. Tuesday was a premiere, sure — but it felt more like a statement. Windey isn’t a reality star dabbling in acting anymore. She’s an actress with a Netflix horror series, standing front and center on her own red carpet, dressed like someone who knows exactly how good she looks.

And she wasn’t alone, which honestly made the whole thing sweeter. Her wife, comedian Robby Hoffman, was right there next to her. They posed together, they laughed, they looked like two people who genuinely couldn’t believe how well the night was going — in the best way.

The rest of the cast was there too: Quinn Shephard, Shirley Chen, Sara Boustany, Kristina Bojic, Geena Meszaros, Sofia Wylie, Gina Gammell and Louisa Krause. Eight episodes of the show are streaming on Netflix right now, so the group could finally stop being coy about it and actually celebrate.

That Dress, Though

Okay. The dress.

Black lace. Sheer. No safety net, no blazer thrown over it at the last minute, no playing it safe. It’s the kind of outfit that only works if you commit to it one hundred percent, and Windey committed. The thing about sheer lace is that it punishes hesitation — you either own it or it owns you. She owned it.

Red carpets can be so boring. Same silhouettes, same stylists, same tired “effortless glam” that took four hours and a team of six. Windey sidestepped all of that. The look was sexy without straining for it, dramatic without tipping into costume territory, and — this matters — it photographed like a dream from every angle. Which, let’s be real, is half the job on premiere night.

But here’s what I keep coming back to: the dress wasn’t the story. The confidence was. This wasn’t a reunion special or a quick reality TV appearance where you show up, smile, and go home. This was a scripted series on the biggest streamer on the planet, and Windey was the one everyone was there to photograph. The lace was just the exclamation point.

Robby Hoffman Was the Best Date of the Night

If the dress was the headline, Hoffman was the heart of the whole evening.

Their love story is, frankly, one of the nicer ones in Hollywood right now. Windey got famous looking for love on television — cameras everywhere, roses, the whole circus — and then found the real thing off camera, with a stand-up comedian she fell for fast and hard. They got married in Las Vegas in early 2025. Low-key. Very them. No televised special, no sponsored hashtag.

And ever since, they’ve been each other’s biggest fans in public, which is rarer than it should be. Hoffman has been there for the career swings, the risks, the reinventions — and on Tuesday night she was there for the payoff. Her wife, on a red carpet, starring in a Netflix show. That’s the stuff.

There’s something almost funny about it, when you think about it. A whole season of The Bachelorette, all that manufactured romance, and the person she ends up with is the one she met in real life, with no producers and no rose ceremonies. Life has a sense of humor like that sometimes.

So What Is The Body, Anyway?

Fair question. Here’s the deal.

The Body was created by Quinn Shephard, and it’s not a show you can half-watch while scrolling your phone. It follows a group of Catholic school girls whose dance-team initiation goes wrong in a spectacularly dark way — prophetic visions, mass hysteria, the whole town losing its grip. It all kicks off on Halloween night, because of course it does.

The story centers on the Lions dance team, and on the captains who carry out a strange ritual involving their newest recruit. That’s the spark. What follows is the kind of slow-burn dread that the best teen horror does so well — the feeling that something is deeply off, and nobody in charge will admit it.

Honestly? It’s a clever setup. Dance teams run on pecking orders and unspoken rules and loyalty tests. Everybody knows their place, and everybody’s terrified of losing it. That’s already a horror movie before you add a single supernatural element. Throw in a Catholic school, a small town full of secrets, and a ritual nobody fully understands, and you’ve got something with real teeth.

All eight episodes are out on Netflix now. The binge-watchers have already finished it. The theory people are already three spreadsheets deep into the finale. And the cast — finally, mercifully — can talk about how it ends. The creators and the cast have started dropping hints about the season finale, and the word that keeps coming up is “bombshell.” Take that as you will.

From Bachelorette to Scream Queen (No, Really)

Here’s the thing people keep getting wrong about Gabby Windey: they keep assuming she’s going to flame out. She keeps not doing that.

She showed up on America’s radar in 2022, first as a contestant on Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor, then as a co-lead of The Bachelorette with Rachel Recchia. That season was messy. Chaotic, even. The kind of television you watch with your hand over your mouth. She walked away without a fiancé — but with something better, which was an audience that actually liked her. Funny, blunt, zero filter. People remembered her.

Most reality stars would have cashed that in for sponsored posts and a podcast and called it a career. Windey went dancing instead. She made the finals of Dancing With the Stars in 2022 with Val Chmerkovskiy and finished runner-up, which — if you’ve ever watched that show — you know takes an absurd amount of work and discipline. No coasting. No shortcuts.

And then came The Traitors, which is where the whole story changed. She played as a Faithful, kept her head while everyone around her was scheming, and won the whole thing. A castle full of liars and game-players, and Gabby Windey walked out with the prize. That win did something no sponsored post ever could: it made people who had never watched a second of The Bachelor take her seriously.

It rebranded her. Not in the corporate sense — in the real sense. She wasn’t just a reality star anymore. She was a competitor. A strategist. Someone who could hold her nerve when it counted. And it opened doors to scripted work, with The Body being the biggest one yet.

Going from reality TV to a scripted Netflix horror series is not a normal career path. Most people who try it wash out fast. Windey is out here doing it in a sheer lace dress, looking like she was born for it. Say what you want about her — underestimating her has not worked out well for anyone so far.

The People Behind the Show

Quinn Shephard deserves a moment here, because she’s the reason the show has a real point of view. She directed her first feature, Blame, as a teenager — a teenager! — and then made Not Okay in 2022, that Hulu satire about social media fame that understood the internet better than most movies about the internet ever do. She’s drawn to stories about young women under pressure, and about what happens when that pressure has nowhere to go. The Body is a bigger swing on the same themes. Darker. Stranger. More ambitious.

The cast around Windey is strong, too. Sofia Wylie was at the premiere — she’s the one with the Disney Channel pedigree, Andi Mack and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and she’s been quietly building a career that goes way beyond that. Louisa Krause is a pro, the kind of actor who steadies every scene she’s in. And the younger ensemble — Shirley Chen, Sara Boustany, Kristina Bojic, Geena Meszaros, Gina Gammell — brings the fresh energy a story about a high school dance team needs. You can’t fake that.

And then there’s the finale, which everybody’s being cagey about, as they should be. The cast and creators keep using that word: bombshell. With a show built on rituals and visions and a whole town losing its mind, a finale that detonates is exactly what the audience signed up for. The only question is whether it answers the big mysteries or blows them wide open for season two. Netflix will be watching the numbers, like it always does. That’s the business.

For now, though, the cast gets to enjoy the night. Premieres are weird, wonderful, short-lived things — months of work boiled down to a few hours of flashbulbs and congratulations — and Tuesday at the Los Feliz Theater looked like a good one. The show is out. The reactions are rolling in. And the woman at the center of it showed up in a dress nobody’s forgetting anytime soon.

Gabby Windey spent years being underestimated by an industry that loves putting reality stars in a box and taping it shut. The Body is her latest reminder that the box never fit. The lace was just punctuation.

Source: Just Jared