Status: Split
Digital marketing manager Lacey Mark (who competed for Nick's heart) seemed like a good fit for quirky Canadian model Daniel Maguire (one of JoJo's suitors). But shortly after leaving the fourth season of Bachelor in Paradise together in 2017, they called it quits.
While Rachel revealed before her season of The Bachelorette even began airing that she ended her journey engaged, fans had to wait until the dramatic finale to find out if it was Miami chiropractor Bryan Abasolo or Peter Kraus who put a ring on it. Rachel and Bryan celebrated their engagement with parties in Dallas and Miami, their respective hometowns. The two wed in August 2019.But days after telling ex Viall on his podcast that they're "just in two totally different places" due to their wildly divergent work schedules, he legally filed to end their four-year union.
Just five months after their finale aired in 2017, E! News exclusively reported Nick and Vanessa Grimaldi ended their engagement.
They've each gone onto rosier relationships. The Canadian special education teacher wed Joshua Wolfe in 2021 and welcomed their son Winston on her birthday the following September. Nick, meanwhile, told E! News he's "definitely anxious" to marry surgical technologist Natalie Joy after proposing in January 2023. On the guest list: Their first child. "We definitely tossed around a lot of ideas," Natalie shared shortly after revealing she was expecting. "But I didn't want to feel rushed and moving it up. And then I have some pretty sick family members. And I didn't want to risk pushing it back. So we kind of just kept that and we're like, we'll just have a baby at our wedding."
After both Becca Tilley (who appeared on Chris Soules' and Ben Higgins' seasons of The Bachelor) and Robert Graham (who competed on Desiree Hartsock's season of The Bachelorette and season one of Bachelor in Paradise) failed to find love, the Bachelor Nation alums began dating in 2016. E! News confirmed in May 2017 they had called it quits.
In May 2022, Becca went public with her relationship with partner Hayley Kiyoko.
After ending Bachelor in Paradise's third season engaged in 2016, despite some controversy surrounding his previous relationship with Bachelorette Andi Dorfman, Josh Murray moved in with Amanda and her two young daughters. However, after a few months, a source told E! News the "volatile" couple split.
Though she initially rejected his advances, Carly Waddell finally fell for future husband Evan Bass during Bachelor in Paradise's third season, and the couple quickly moved in together in Nashville. Carly and Evan said "I do" in Bachelor in Paradise's fourth season premiere event, going on to welcome daughter Isabella Evelyn Bass in February 2018 and son Charles "Charlie" Wolf in November 2019.
However, in December 2020, they announced their decision to split. "We will always cherish our time together and continue to have the utmost respect for one another as we focus on what's best for the future of our family," they said in a statement to E! News. "We greatly appreciate everyone's love and support and kindly ask that you please respect our family's privacy as we navigate through this."
After a tumultuous romance on Bachelor in Paradise season three in 2016, Grant Kemp (from JoJo's season) and Lace Morris (she competed for Ben's heart) ended the season engaged and moved in together. But after three months, the duo called it quits. So...about those "Grace" tattoos?
Status: MarriedWith doubters assuming real estate developer JoJo and former pro football player fiancé Jordan Rodgers would never make it to the end zone following their 2016 engagement, the athlete vowed to E! News that he'd do 1,000 jumping jacks "in a man thong" if they split within a year. Let's just say Rodgers never had to suit up. Though the pair admitted they came awfully close to sending back her Neil Lane diamond ("We went through a lot of different struggles," said Fletcher), they tied the knot in May 2022 after six years and several COVID-related delays. "Knowing that you're married, it feels a little bit different, she shared with E! News. "You have that partner for life that's always going to be there for you."Now in the middle of remodeling their Texas home, the hosts of The Big D are contemplating some fairly sizable decisions. "It's in the near future," she told E! of plans to expand their family, "one to two years."
After documenting their engagement (and ultimately postponing the wedding) on Freeform's Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After?, Ben and Lauren Bushnell announced in May 2017 that they'd called the whole thing off. "It is with heavy hearts that we announce our decision to go our separate ways," they told People in a joint statement. "We feel fortunate for the time we had together, and will remain friends with much love and respect for one another. We wish nothing but the best for each other, and ask for your support and understanding at this time." As for why, "They just wanted different things. They had been struggling for a while...It was a mutual break up for the most part," a source close to Lauren told E! News. "I think Ben would have kept wanting to make it work, though. It's really sad. They're both such great people, honestly."
Status: Married
Less than four months after Tanner Tolbert (the finance manager from Kaitlyn Bristowe's season) proposed to Jade Roper (one of Ben's finalists) on the season two finale of Bachelor in Paradise, the super-cute duo said "I do" in front of family, friends, many franchise alums and ABC's cameras in a ceremony in January 2016. In August 2017, Jade and Tanner welcomed their first child, a girl named Emerson Avery. Jade welcomed the couple's second child, son Brooks Easton, in July 2019 via accidental home birth. Youngest son Reed came along in November 2020. In August 2023, Jade said on Instagram that she had a miscarriage.
For the former dancer—who briefly shared lead duties with Britt Nilsson—and personal trainer Shawn Booth, the 2015 finale wasn't all that dramatic. "I never, never really had a doubt, like, ever," the BC Gym founder admitted on podcast Austin AF. "I was always like, 'Yep, she's gonna pick me.'" Though the Nashville-based duo's engagement lasted three years, the bloom began to come off the rose earlier. "I think I knew for a year that my relationship wouldn't work, and I think I knew that he just couldn't give me the kind of love that I needed in my life," Bristowe shared on The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast in 2019. "And I think for a solid year, maybe half a year, I was already grieving the relationship."
Chris Soules and his fiancée Whitney Bischoff split a mere two months after the season 19 Bachelor proposed during the 2014 finale. "Whitney Bischoff and Chris Soules have mutually and amicably decided to end their engagement," the couple said in a statement. "They part with nothing but respect and admiration for one another and will continue to be supportive friends. They wish to thank everyone who has supported them through this journey."
While the duo swapped vows in Bachelor in Paradise's season two premiere, after ending the first season of the spinoff engaged in 2014, a source confirmed to E! News that Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul called it quits less than one year after their wedding. Or whatever you want to call it, with Marcus later revealing their Mexico nuptials weren't legal.
Bachelor and Bachelor Pad alum Michelle Money unexpectedly fell for Cody Sattler, one of Andi Dorfman's castoffs, when they met on Bachelor in Paradise in 2014. The duo announced their split in a joint statement six months after season one aired.
"I didn't think I found my soulmate," the assistant district attorney said of accepting former pro baseball player Josh Murray's proposal on her July 2014 finale. "I knew it. I was 100 percent sure." By January, though, they had split. Her verdict, she told then-host Chris Harrison in a Bachelor special, "We were both very aware of the fact that we just didn't better each other." She later accused him of being emotionally and verbally abusive in her 2016 book, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After, which he called "ludicrous".On May 31, the author married commercial real estate agent Blaine Hart in Italy, where they reconnected in 2021 more than 15 years after they first met.
Even Couples Therapy couldn't prevent these two from heading to splitsville, as Bachelor star Juan Pablo Galavis and Nikki Ferrell confirmed their split in November 2014. "There was a while where I did feel like he was totally in love with me. Was it too late? Probably," Nikki later told Chris Harrison of their breakup.
Nikki later married Tyler VanLoo. Meanwhile, Juan Pablo wed Osmariel Villalobos, though they've since divorced.
Sure, she sobbed over Brooks Forester's departure, but ultimately bridal stylist Desiree decided to create beautiful prose with mortgage broker and aspiring poet Chris Siegfried.Twenty months after fans watched him slip a four-carat Neil Lane diamond onto Hartsock's finger on her season's May 2013 finale, they embarked on a new chapter. Their wedding reception—held at the Redondo Beach Historic Library—came with one directive from the bride, she told Us Weekly: "No red roses, they're not my favorite." Her romance with Siegfried remains in bloom. The Oregon-based parents to Asher and Zander recently celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary.
Lest the couple forget where their journey began, they need only walk past the master bedroom in their Dallas-area pad. That's where graphic designer Catherine Lowe (née Giudici) has framed the final final rose that season 17's Bachelor Sean Lowe presented her back in that Thai forest in late 2012, right after he promised to tell her he loved her every day of the rest of their lives.
"It made sense to dry this one and make it permanent because it was accompanied by a ring and a proposal, so this is a really special thing," Catherine explained to Entertainment Tonight in 2017. Because that last rose ceremony, complete with an elephant ride and a $75,000 Neil Lane diamond, is as much part of their story as the the sweet, suburban life that followed with kids Samuel, born in July 2016, Isaiah, who came along in May 2018, and Mia, who completed the fam in December 2019. "We don't want to shy away from the fact that we got engaged and fell in love on The Bachelor," she said, "so that is the only red rose I will allow in my house!"
After the Brad Womack of it all, the single mom—whose fiancé, race car driver Ricky Henrick, died in a plane crash just before she learned she was expecting daughter Ricki, now 17—was tapped to hand out the roses in 2012. Though she accepted a proposal from entrepreneur Jef Holm, the pair split months later. After welcoming sons Jennings, 7, Gibson, 6, and Gatlin, 5, and daughter Magnolia, 2, with now-husband Tyler Johnson, "SURPRISE!" she shared on Instagram last fall, "On August 31st, Tyler and I welcomed our sweet son, Jones West Johnson, into the world. During my surgery we learned that he was born with Down Syndrome, and while it was certainly a surprise, we have so much peace in God's perfect plan and know Jones is going to be a blessing to our family."
Wine maker Ben Flajnik got down on bended knee for model Courtney Robertson in the finale, and they stayed together even though rumors constantly flew that there was trouble brewing between them. Turns out the rumors were true, and the duo broke up in October 2012.
Courtney married Humberto Preciado in 2020 and as of November 2023, they are expecting their third child, a baby boy.
Also in November, Ben announced that he had tied the knot the previous month, sharing a photo of himself and his bride, who he did not name.
Everything appeared to be coming up roses for bubbly pediatric dentist Ashley Hebert. When she wed construction manager J.P. Rosenbaum—a year and a half after Bachelorette viewers watched him propose in Fiji—she became just the second franchise lead to make it down the aisle with her final rose recipient. Eight years and two kids (son Ford, 8, and daughter Essie, 6) later, the Florida-based pair stunned Bachelor Nation when they revealed their marriage actually had its share of thorns.
Two-time Bachelor Brad took a lot of heat when the pair ended their engagement in 2011, but Emily has since reflected that it takes two to take down a Bachelor union. "It didn't last so long, but I take a lot of the blame for that too," Emily said on a 2020 episode of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!. "I was 24. I'm 34 now. I didn't have the maturity to deal with all of that. And it was really hard. We both put in a lot of work traveling back and forth and all of that, but I think we both knew, 'This is just not fun anymore. This is just not going to work.'"
Status: Split.
Former Facebook employee Ali Fedotowsky's romance with insurance agent Roberto Martinez seemed sweet, but ultimately, "we were unhappy more than we were happy, and something needed to change," Ali told E! News of their 2011 split. "For the first time in my life. I'm happy with me and who I am and being single."Producers actually had a hand in the TV personality's ultimate happy ending, a staffer on NBC's 1st Look introducing her to now-husband Kevin Manno. "We've been friends for a long time," the TV host explained to E! News when they made their red carpet debut in 2013, "and then one thing led to the next." And the next and the next. Married since 2017, the pair share daughter Molly, 6, and son Riley, 5.
Pilot Jake Pavelka proposed to season 14's resident villain Vienna Girardi in 2010, but their wings of love were clipped three months later.