Is she there looking for love or looking for fame?
There were audible gasps from viewers at M-Net's outdoor viewing event in Cape Town watching on a big screen when the celebrity make-up artist climbed out of a black limousine as one of the potential paramours of Lee Thompson.
Gina Myers was revealed as one of the 24 women selected out of the thousands who had entered the Rapid Blue produced reality dating competition.
In previous interviews Gina Myers described Reeva Steenkamp - who also appeared in a reality competition, Tropika Island of Treasure on SABC1 - as her "sister".
Reeva Steenkamp also stayed with the Myers family for half a year before she was murdered by Oscar Pistorius on that fateful Valentine's Day.
Before that Reeva Steenkamp and Gina Myers have been friends for 6 years.
The producers Rapid Blue, M-Net and Warner Bros. did extensive background checks on all of the women and knew of Gina Myers' connection with Reeva Steenkamp and her link to the victim of one of the most buzzed-about murder cases in South African true-crime history when they decided to cast her for The Bachelor SA.
People watching the first episode of The Bachelor SA at the Cape Town big screen outdoors screening on Thursday night on the field of Camps Bay High School immediately asked when Gina Myers appeared: "Is she there for the limelight?, "Is she looking for fame?"
It's often very difficult for the public, when someone closely linked to something, suddenly pops up in another guise.
Gina Myers obviously entered The Bachelor SA on M-Net in her own volition. Out of the thousands of women who entered, Rapid Blue and M-Net selected her as one of the final 24 women.
Gina Myers, Rapid Blue and M-Net were all aware that Gina Myers chose to become a public person on South African television as a contestant in a local reality show and that that would solicit public comments - possibly bad, neutral and good.
It will be interesting to see what South African viewers' reactions are to Gina Myers as well as the other remaining contestants as The Bachelor SA progresses.
And the press and Gina Myers? Will she be asked questions by the media about Reeva Steenkamp - and will she answer those?
How about whether, or what, reservations she might have about being in a high-profile, public relationship? What she possibly learnt from Reeva Steenkamp about fame and romantic relationships, and myriad other questions now of interest because of her decision to enter The Bachelor SA?
