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Then: After a six-week whirlwind of blistery tubs and champagne toasts, Miami-based carnal therapist Trista Rehn (who archetypal saw an advertisement for ABC's dating experimentation portion watching TV) accepted a proposal from dashing occurrence fighter Ryan Sutter.

Following months of concealed rendezvous ("They flew him with a handler and helium had to deterioration a wig," she recalled successful a 2022 interrogation with E! News), they capped disconnected their melodramatic travel with a televised December 2003 wedding. 

Now: The OG Bachelorette's connection was met with a batch of doubts. Since the series' archetypal 2 Bachelors had divided with their last roseate recipients wrong a twelvemonth of the finale airing, "it hadn't truly ever been proven by anybody that you could person a palmy relationship," Trista noted to E!. "But we proved them each wrong!"

The Colorado-based pair—parents to Maxwell, 15, and Blakesley, 14—will observe their 20th day this December, presumably without reddish roses, which stay among astir of the leads' slightest favourite blooms. 

"I privation to beryllium joined for 72 years, similar my grandparents were," Sutter shared with E! News successful February. "I emotion him. I emotion doing beingness with him. I emotion that he's my champion person and I privation that to continue."

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Then: Though the exemplary and constitution creator had afloat fallen for financier Ian McKee, "I wasn't expecting him to, you know, springiness maine a ring," she told Good Morning America of the 2004 proposal. They broke disconnected their engagement a twelvemonth later. 

Now: More than a decennary aft filming wrapped, the day nighttime cookbook author—who wed precocious schoolhouse sweetheart Michael Broady—alleged she was sexually assaulted by a masseuse during her season. 

"She was hired to springiness maine a massage and she said, 'I'm going to springiness you a pill,'" Phillips told Reality Steve franchise blogger Steve Carbone in a 2018 podcast episode. "I conscionable assumed it was an aspirin oregon thing to loosen up my backmost oregon a Tylenol oregon something, and it wasn't that, that's for sure." 

The past happening Phillips remembered, "is she got bare and she was successful the tub with maine rubbing my backmost and rubbing areas that astir apt she shouldn't have. Then I was enactment successful bed. I woke up naked. Don't retrieve much." 

For years, Phillips added, she stayed quiescent connected the acquisition "because successful a weird way, I wanted to support the franchise." ABC and accumulation institution Warner Bros. Television did not remark connected Phillips' claim. 

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Then: Proving she tin bargain her ain flowers, Schefft—who ended her engagement from season three Bachelor pb Andrew Firestone successful 2003—broke up with both Jerry Ferris and John Paul Merritt. 

Now: Not agelong aft writing Better Single Than Sorry, her never-settle strategy paid disconnected erstwhile she met her aboriginal husband, trader Joe Waterman on a unsighted date. Settling extracurricular Cleveland with their daughters Mae, 12, and Charlotte, 10, she asked listeners if they would accept her 35-episode From The Bachelor To The Burbs podcast. 

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Then: Pivoting from being blindsided by two-time Bachelor Brad Womack to handing retired the roses connected The Bachelorette successful 2008, the Georgia autochthonal did a full-180, accepting a connection from snowboarder Jesse Csincsak. 

Coming disconnected their engagement high "was really, truly difficult," she admitted to E! News successful 2022: "I chose idiosyncratic that I could not beryllium much incompatible with. He loved to snowboard. I freaking hatred the snow. He would, seriously, aftermath up astatine 5 a.m. to spell and snowboard each day, and I americium a nighttime owl. He came to enactment with maine successful Georgia. But it was truthful freaking blistery and helium hated it. So honestly, erstwhile we broke up, I was baffled by however devastated helium pretended to be."

Now: In a melodramatic finale fewer Bachelor loyalists saw coming, the firm formation attendant announced the extremity of her 11-year marriage to Stephen Stagliano (his brother Michael Stagliano competed for Jillian Harris' heart) successful January.

Navigating what she calls her #newnormal, Pappas has filled her societal media provender with tributes to kids Addison, 9, and Austin, 7, and the girlfriends she credited as "the ones who rescue you from an assertive sidewalk. While feeding you food & wine. Life is good."

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Then: Well earlier respective different members of Bachelor Nation asked him to clasp his beer, Harris' last roseate recipient Ed Swiderski was the franchise villain. Following months of cheating allegations that helium called "not existent astatine all", the duo called disconnected their engagement successful 2010. 

"He was truthful incorrect for me," she aboriginal told Popsugar, acknowledging that she tried to unit things to enactment due to the fact that she was successful love. "Ed wasn't honest, helium wasn't adjacent with his family, helium wasn't adjacent with my household oregon my friends. He didn't person the aforesaid values arsenic I did, helium wasn't patient, helium wasn't sweet, determination was thing astir him that was large for me."

Now: Enter: Justin Pasutto, "one of the astir cleanable radical connected earth," who delivered the Canadian entrepreneur's blessed ending implicit with the 2016 Christmas greeting proposal she'd ever dreamed of. Marking their 11th day successful June, Pasutto posted a tribute "to the 1 who stole my heart, my life-partner, and the parent of our 2 beauteous kids" Leo, 6, and Annie, 4, adding, "I americium grateful for the emotion we stock and can't hold to marque much memories with you."

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Then: The erstwhile Facebook employee's romance with security cause Roberto Martinez seemed sweet, but ultimately, "we were unhappy much than we were happy, and thing needed to change," Fedotowsky told E! News of their 2011 split. "For the archetypal clip successful my life. I'm blessed with maine and who I americium and being single."

Now: Producers really had a manus successful the TV personality's eventual blessed ending, a staffer connected NBC's 1st Look introducing her to now-husband Kevin Manno. "We've been friends for a agelong time," TV big Manno explained to E! News erstwhile they made their reddish carpet debut successful 2013, "and past 1 happening led to the next." And the adjacent and the next. Married since 2017, the pair share girl Molly, 6, and lad Riley, 5.

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Then: Everything appeared to beryllium coming up roses for the bubbly pediatric dentist. When she wed construction manager J.P. Rosenbaum—a twelvemonth and a fractional aft Bachelorette viewers watched him propose successful Fiji—she became conscionable the 2nd franchise pb to marque it down the aisle with her last roseate recipient. 

Now: Eight years and 2 kids (son Ford, 8, and girl Essie, 6) later, the Florida-based brace stunned Bachelor Nation when they revealed their matrimony really had its stock of thorns. Months aft announcing their 2020 split, Hebert introduced fans to her caller boyfriend, Foody Fetish laminitis Yanni Georgoulakis. 

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Then: After the Brad Womack of it all, the azygous mom—whose fiancé, contention car driver Ricky Henrick, died successful a level clang just before she learned she was expecting girl Ricki, present 17—was tapped to manus retired the roses successful 2012. Though she accepted a connection from entrepreneur Jef Holm, the brace divided months later. 

Now: Take her to church. That's wherever the Charlotte, N.C. nonmigratory found the reply to her prayers successful now-husband Tyler Johnson.

After welcoming sons Jennings, 7, Gibson, 6, and Gatlin, 5, and girl Magnolia, 2, "SURPRISE!" she shared connected Instagram past fall, "On August 31st, Tyler and I welcomed our saccharine son, Jones West Johnson, into the world. During my country we learned that helium was calved with Down Syndrome, and portion it was surely a surprise, we person truthful overmuch bid successful God's cleanable program and cognize Jones is going to beryllium a blessing to our family."

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Then: Sure, she sobbed implicit Brooks Forester's departure, but yet the bridal stylist decided to make beauteous prose with owe broker and aspiring writer Chris Siegfried.

Twenty months aft fans watched him gaffe a four-carat Neil Lane diamond onto Hartsock's finger on her season's May 2013 finale, they embarked connected a caller chapter. Their wedding reception—held astatine the Redondo Beach Historic Library—came with 1 directive from the bride, she told Us Weekly, "No reddish roses, they're not my favorite." 

Now: Her romance with Siegfried remains successful bloom. The Oregon-based parents to Asher, 6, and Zander, 4, precocious celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary.

"It's truthful cliche that opposites pull but it wholly works!" the decorator and Do You See? podcast host raved connected Instagram in May. "His strengths are my weaknesses and vice-versa. I'm much introverted, helium thrives successful crowded settings, I tally successful struggle helium wants to settee things quick, I'm large picture, he's truthful detailed."

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Then: "I didn't think I recovered my soulmate," the assistant territory attorney said of accepting former pro shot subordinate Josh Murray's connection connected 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 some precise alert of the information that we conscionable didn't amended each other." 

She aboriginal accused him of being emotionally and verbally abusive successful her 2016 book, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After, claims helium called "ludicrous".

Now: Bless her Hart. On May 31, the writer joined commercialized existent property agent Blaine Hart in Italy, where they reconnected in 2021 more than 15 years aft they archetypal met.

And she credits her clip handing retired the roses arsenic the commencement of their journey. "I deliberation if I hadn't done the show, I wouldn't person moved to New York, I wouldn't person moved to L.A., I wouldn't person been successful Italy astatine the clip that I met Blaine," she explained to E! News. "So, it's successful immoderate weird mode led maine here."

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Then: For the erstwhile dancer—who concisely shared pb duties with Britt Nilsson—and idiosyncratic trainer Shawn Booth, the 2015 finale wasn't each that dramatic. "I never, ne'er truly had a doubt, like, ever," the BC Gym laminitis admitted connected podcast Austin AF. "I was ever like, 'Yep, she's gonna prime me.'" 

Though the Nashville-based duo's engagement lasted 3 years, the bloom began to travel disconnected the roseate earlier. "I deliberation I knew for a twelvemonth that my narration wouldn't work, and I deliberation I knew that helium conscionable couldn't springiness maine the benignant of emotion that I needed successful my life," Bristowe shared connected The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast successful 2019. "And I deliberation for a coagulated year, possibly fractional a year, I was already grieving the relationship."

Now: Bristowe's tears dried rapidly when she interviewed Jason Tartick—one of Becca Kufrin's suitors—on her Off the Vine podcast months later. "It tin look fast," she acknowledged of their narration trajectory, "but to me, it was cleanable timing due to the fact that I conscionable knew what I wanted and I conscionable didn't spot it happening." Engaged since 2021, "the wedding vibe we are going for is over-the-top fancy," she told E! News, "but astatine the aforesaid clip we privation Buffalo chickenhearted wings."

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Then: With doubters assuming the real property developer and former pro shot subordinate fiancé Jordan Rodgers would ne'er marque it to the extremity zone following their 2016 engagement, the jock vowed to E! News that he'd do 1,000 jumping jacks "in a antheral thong" if they divided wrong a year. 

Now: Let's conscionable accidental Rodgers ne'er had to suit up. Though the brace admitted they came awfully adjacent to sending backmost her Neil Lane diamond ("We went done a batch of antithetic struggles," said Fletcher), they tied the knot successful May 2022 after six years and several COVID-related delays. "Knowing that you're married, it feels a small spot different, she shared with E! News. "You person that spouse for beingness that's ever going to beryllium determination for you."

Now successful the mediate of remodeling their Texas home, the hosts of The Big D are contemplating immoderate fairly sizable decisions. "It's successful the adjacent future," she told E! of plans to grow their family, "one to 2 years." 

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Then: Despite delivering a picture-perfect blessed ending—accepting chiropractor Bryan Abasolo's connection supra a Spanish vineyard—the lawyer said her engagement was overshadowed by immoderate made-for-TV drama. Namely, the accusation that she chose Abasolo because trainer Peter Krause wasn't acceptable to propose. 

"So much of my finale made it look similar I'd settled for Bryan due to the fact that Peter couldn't springiness maine what I wanted," she aboriginal recounted successful an essay for New York Magazine. "Publicly, I was robbed of my emotion story."

Now: Off-camera, Lindsay continues to unrecorded her champion life. Though the L.A.-based writer of Miss Me With That and Real Love broke up with the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast successful 2021, she chats each things Bravo connected the Morally Corrupt series and talks nine and civilization with cohost Van Lathan connected Higher Learning. 

As for Krause's comments that she was settling with Abasolo, the mates volition celebrate their 4th wedding anniversary this August. "Each twelvemonth gets better," she wrote connected Instagram. "Love you forever."

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Then: Questioning if helium was determination for the close reasons (read: perchance had a woman astatine home), the erstwhile pageant queen sent last roseate recipient Jed Wyatt and his guitar packing adjacent before her 2019 finale aired. (He later said connected Bachelor Happy Hour that portion helium was dating Haley Stevens pre-show, they were not exclusive: "If I was successful a relationship, I would not person gone onto a dating show. That's conscionable me. I'm not a cheater.")

And though Brown and runner up Tyler Cameron surely showed promise, things began to fizzle erstwhile Gigi Hadid asked if she could bargain him for a second. 

Now: Following a little detour with finalist Peter Weber, the God Bless This Mess writer landed connected her everlastingly with exemplary Adam Woolard. "I emotion doing beingness with you," she wrote successful a May day tribute. "It doesn't substance if we are traveling to spot the beauteous satellite oregon weeknight cooking successful the kitchen—it's each amusive with you! You truly are the champion idiosyncratic I cognize and I'm the luckiest miss to beryllium loved by you!"

Her fellow of 2 years was connected her limb erstwhile she attended brother Patrick Brown's September 2022 wedding—to Wyatt's onetime woman Stevens. "I've travel to recognize my beingness is simply a never-ending crippled twist," she wrote connected Instagram, "but it makes for a damn bully (for definite weird) story."

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Then: Even by Bachelor standards, Crawley's romance with Dale Moss moved astatine a breakneck pace. Four episodes into her 2020 season, the hairstylist accepted the model's proposal. "We person this transportation wherever it feels similar I've known him forever," she explained to producers. "It's that intangible chemistry that you conscionable can't marque up and you can't replace. It's thing that is truthful uncommon to consciousness truthful connected to idiosyncratic erstwhile you've lone known them for specified a abbreviated play of time." 

Now: Following a January 2021 split and a reconciliation conscionable weeks later, the Sacramento-based salon proprietor chopped Moss retired of her beingness for good. A period aft hard launching her romance with Mascot Sports CEO Ryan Dawkins past September, he proposed astatine the RiSE Festival successful Las Vegas. 

Having teased her plans for a "very intimate" wedding to E! News, Crawley wed Dawkins astatine the California State Capitol—the tract of their archetypal date—in February. As she told E!, "The emotion of my beingness has been successful my backyard the full time."

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Then: They'll ever person New York. After accepting Zac Clark's proposal connected her truncated post-Crawley season, the autochthonal Californian decamped to the East Coast to physique a beingness with the addiction specialist. "The one-way summons to New York is an astonishing start, and we're gonna instrumentality it from there," Clark told E! News. "I deliberation successful 2021 we're gonna absorption connected gathering disconnected of this peculiar instauration that we've already created...and we're gonna person a large ass enactment successful 2022."

Now: Shortly aft they crossed the decorativeness enactment of the New York City marathon unneurotic successful November 2021, the mates revealed their narration had tally retired of steam. "We tried truly hard and I inactive emotion him precise much," Adams shared portion co-hosting The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All with Bristowe that December. "And I'm not definite what the aboriginal holds."

A caller romance, perhaps? The GOAT prima had fans speculating astir the crossover imaginable erstwhile a person posted a radical pic showing Adams and Summer House's Luke Gulbranson holding hands. 

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Then: Despite a thorny decorativeness to her 2021 season—both marketing income rep Greg Grippo and sweet azygous dad Michael Allio self-eliminated—the selling manager eagerly said yes to conservationist Blake Moynes.

"The nighttime that you said that you loved maine changed my beingness forever," she gushed earlier handing disconnected the past boutonnière. "Because I knew successful that moment, I wanted to emotion you for the remainder of my life. You and lone you. You person made maine the happiest pistillate alive." They announced their breakup that October. 

Now: At slightest she tin laughter astir it? Enjoying her 2nd enactment arsenic a stand-up comic, the San Diego nonmigratory has turned her clip connected the bid into self-deprecating comedy gold. "The producers are like, 'Bro, if you enactment for conscionable 1 much week, you're gonna person much surface time, much Instagram followers and you tin bang this chick,'" she joked successful 1 clip, shared to her Instagram profile. "And they're like, 'Nah, I deliberation I'm gonna spell home.'" 

After ending her romance with Bachelorette suitor-turned-pal-turned-boyfriend John Hersey past year, Thurston is focused connected self-love. As she enactment it successful a June 5 post, "Me clip is starting to dependable amended and amended tbh." 

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Then: Having bounced chap hoops player Joe Coleman and aboriginal Bachelor successful Paradise standout Brandon Jones, the Minnesota simple schoolhouse teacher accepted a Neil Lane sparkler from Texas-based income exec Nayte Olukoya—and a $200,000 check from producers to enactment toward their aboriginal home. 

Now: Ultimately, Young and the Olukoya conscionable didn't person the close foundation, announcing their breakup six months aft their season's finale aired successful December 2021. Though helium told erstwhile Bachelor Nick Viall on The Viall Files, "There was tons of ups and downs, tons of arguments, tons of fights and conscionable not truly clicking, not truly seeing eye-to-eye," Olukoya acknowledged that not having that final split speech successful idiosyncratic was "a dick move."

Months later, the Bachelor Happy Hour big tin hardly retrieve the lad who broke up with her implicit the phone. Marking her 30th day June 8, Young shared a fewer of the lessons she's already learned successful her caller decade, including, to "surround yourself with radical who volition observe you adjacent erstwhile you don't privation to beryllium celebrated."

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Then: Sure, her engagement to real property expert Erich Schwer didn't past overmuch beyond the 2022 finale (the brace announced their divided that November), but weren't we each rooting for her relationship with chap Bachelorette Rachel Recchia anyway? 

"The extremity of our narration happened due to the fact that we weren't wholly successful measurement and successful sync with each different connected our communal goals oregon conscionable the mode we attack life," the ICU caregiver explained of breaking things disconnected with Schwer portion cha-cha-ing her mode to a second-place decorativeness connected Dancing With the Stars. "We weren't each other's champion match."

Now: She's completed 1 melodramatic journey, wrapping DWTS' two-and-a-half-month circuit successful March. And now she is making immoderate much large moves. "I consciousness similar I've lived a cardinal lives successful my caller adulthood and person been craving roots for a agelong clip now," she precocious posted of leaving her Denver location down for L.A. "Moving has been terrifying and consuming (mostly fb marketplace) but I tin honestly accidental I ne'er thought beingness could look this bully with truthful overmuch emotion astir me."

As for the emotion of 1 idiosyncratic successful particular, "the dating doorway is open," she told E! News successful December erstwhile asked astir her flirtation with chap DWTS rival Vinny Guadagnino. "Ultimately, I americium ever unfastened to a relationship, but I conscionable truly privation it to beryllium with the close person. I deliberation that is going to instrumentality immoderate clip and patience. I'm excited to conscionable beryllium successful the moment, spot what happens and benignant of stitchery much information connected myself."

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Then: The pilot's engagement to general contractor Tino Franco stalled erstwhile helium kissed different pistillate portion their 2022 play was inactive airing. "I bash not basal by what I did astatine all," he said connected The Viall Files. "It was not cool. It wasn't just to Rachel, and it haunts maine regular still. It's thing I'm ashamed of and surely privation I could person done it otherwise similar a cardinal times over." 

Now: While her flirtation with sales exec Aven Jones ne'er truly took disconnected aft helium asked her retired during the finale past September, the Florida transplant has made a transportation with another subordinate of Bachelor Nation. She and Genevieve Parisi—who grew adjacent portion competing for Clayton Echard's heart—recently traded the Bachelor mansion for an L.A. pad. 

"It's been truthful astonishing surviving with Gen," Recchia told Distractify successful April. "One of america volition travel location from a day and past we'll [say] archer maine everything, and past we conscionable crockery everything. So it's truly bully to person her present earlier and aft the date."