GOP Debate Hunk Reacts to Newfound Fame

— -- The 24-year-old Los Angeles man who became an Internet star after “by chance” landing the lucky seat behind CNN’s Jake Tapper at Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate says he’s had fun with his 15 minutes of fame -- but does not see it extending to reality TV.

“I don’t think I’d do that,” Gregory Caruso said of calls for him to star on “The Bachelor.” “It’s tough enough for me to approach one girl and 25 would be a little overwhelming.”

Caruso became known as #HotDebateGuy after his handsome face got lots of TV time during the three-hour debate thanks to his position directly behind debate moderator Tapper.

The University of Southern California graduate and filmmaker, and son of wealthy real estate developer Rick Caruso, told “Good Morning America” today that he attended the debate with his dad, sister and brother and got "lucky" with the prime-position seat.

Caruso confirmed that the moment he broke his consistently serious expression on-air was when he found out he had unknowingly bested the presidential candidates themselves in becoming the star of the debate online.

“That was the moment, when I looked at my phone,” Caruso said. “It was on silent and then I checked.”

The text messages Caruso received from friends alerting him that he was trending on social media caused him to “crack up” with his sister a few times, Caruso said, but mostly he kept a stern expression because the debate had “so much going on.”

“I thought, for me, probably Fiorina really came out as the winner in that,” Caruso said of GOP hopeful Carly Fiorina, who delivered a few zingers to front-runner Donald Trump.

“It was just really interesting," he said of the debate. "It was entertaining.”

Just over 48 hours after becoming a viral star, Caruso calls the experience “shocking and exciting." Though he said no to a hypothetical spot on "The Bachelor," Caruso revealed the Internet's reaction he found the most amusing.

"I would say the funniest for me was the $10 bill one, because they asked who should be on the $10 bill, so I thought that was crazy," he said.

Caruso's next project is a documentary titled "Making the American Man."

"It’s on American-made goods for men," Caruso said. "[It] focuses on makers in the states, bringing back manufacturing."