Bachelor Nation Couples Who Got Together Outside the Show

What happens on The Bachelor, doesn’t always stay on The Bachelor! While many couples have found — or lost — love on the reality TV dating franchise over the years, others have met their match within Bachelor Nation after their season ended.

Katie Thurston joined the club of offcamera Bachelor Nation couples in November 2021 when Us Weekly confirmed her relationship with John Hersey — who she sent home in week two of The Bachelorette season 17 — after her broken engagement to Blake Moynes.

The Washington native got engaged to Moynes in her finale, which aired in August 2021. The duo announced their split the following October, and Thurston shared loved-up videos of her new beau four weeks later.

She debuted their relationship by dedicating Taylor Swift‘s “Begin Again” — a song about finding new love after a major heartbreak — to Hersey alongside some personal videos of her new man. The former bank manager also shared a clip from when they met on the ABC series’ June 2021 premiere.

“Yeah, that’s my type. I think that’s my type,” she said after the bartender’s limo entrance on The Bachelorette. “Did he hear me? Play it cool.”

While Thurston and Hersey got a second chance after the cameras stopped rolling, some Bachelor Nation members never crossed paths onscreen before finding love later on.

Jason Tartick was a guest on Kaitlyn Bristowe‘s “Off the Vine” podcast in January 2019 when he asked her out — on the air! The bold move scored him a longterm relationship. In a podcast episode later that month, the season 11 Bachelorette (who was previously engaged to Shawn Booth) said she considered the Bachelorette season 14 alum her boyfriend after just a couple dates.

“I never thought I would hang out with somebody from The Bachelor franchise!” Bristowe said. “I feel bad for saying that … I was like, ‘You know what? I’ll just be a little more private, low-key. Whatever.’ But you can’t help who you like. … You can’t fight chemistry. You can’t fight a good guy.”

The Dancing With the Stars winner and entrepreneur announced their engagement in May 2021.

“It has been the best, like, two to three weeks of my life since [the proposal],” Tartick exclusively gushed to Us about their engagement later that month. “One of the things I really wanted to do was to surprise her. I know Kaitlyn loves to be surprised. And so that was one of my true goals to genuinely surprise her. And her reaction was absolutely perfect. It was the most Kaitlyn reaction.”

Scroll down to see which former reality stars have found love with other past contestants from the hit ABC series.

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Victoria Fuller and Greg Grippo

After meeting in September 2021, Fuller and Grippo became friends. Months later, she looked for The One on season 8 of BiP and got engaged to Johnny DePhillipo in June 2022. The pair, however, split while the series was airing and Fuller subsequently reconnected with Grippo. While DePhillipo claimed she was unfaithful, the Bachelor season 24 alum maintained she didn’t cross any lines. 

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Chris Bukowski and Anna Redman

After months of dating speculation, the two Chicago residents took their romance Instagram official in March 2022. Redman captioned a kissing photo, “Hard launch.”

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Katie Thurston and John Hersey

The Bachelorette alums didn’t have much time together in season 17 after Thurston sent Hersey home in week two — but he got a second shot at love off camera. A month after announcing her October 2021 split from Blake Moynes, Us Weekly confirmed that Thurston and Hersey were dating. The former bank marketing manager hinted at their relationship on Instagram in November 2021 when she dedicated Taylor Swift‘s “Begin Again” to her new beau.

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Victoria Fuller and Chris Soules

Us Weekly broke the news in May 2020 that Soules, the season 19 Bachelor, and Fuller, a contestant from season 24 of The Bachelor, are dating. The duo posed together for the first time in public in June 2020 in her hometown of Virginia Beach.

Three months later, however, Fuller confirmed that the twosome went their separate ways.

“I’m not moving to Iowa anytime soon, so I just want to focus on me. It’s been so much about other people this year, that I just really want to hone in on what I want to accomplish,” she said on the “Viall Files” in September 2020. “I still talk to him all the time. I think he’s amazing. We are a lot alike, but I just want to focus on myself right now.”

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Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick

The “Off the Vine” podcast host first gave love a shot when she was vying for the heart of Chris Soules on season 19 of The Bachelor in 2015. After placing third, Bristowe went on to become the season 11 lead of The Bachelorette where she met — and got engaged to — Booth. The couple announced their split in November 2018 after three years together. Shortly after, the Canada native went on to date Tartick, who appeared on Becca Kufrin’s season of The Bachelorette in 2018. Bristowe announced in May 2021 that she and Tartick got engaged after more than two years together.

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Ty Brown and Elizabeth Kitt

Kitt vied for the affection of Jake Pavelka on The Bachelor season 14 in 2010, while Brown competed for the heart of Ali Fedotowsky on season 6 of The Bachelorette that same year. The pair — who welcomed their first child, a daughter named Blakely, in December 2018 — started dating in January 2013 after meeting at a charity event. They wed in March 2014.

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Chris and Peyton Lambton

Chris and Peyton met through mutual Bachelor Nation friends in 2010 and tied the knot two years later in May 2012. Peyton was a contestant on Andy Baldwin’s season of The Bachelor in 2007, meanwhile, Chris appeared on season 6 of The Bachelorette with Fedotowsky. The pair are parents of two children, son Hayes and daughter Lyla.

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DeAnna Pappas and Stephen Stagliano

Pappas was the lead on season 4 of The Bachelorette in 2008 after she was rejected by Brad Womack on his season in 2011. Though she didn’t end up with the man who she gave the final rose to, Jesse Csincsak, Pappas found her happily ever after with Stephen Stagliano, whom she was introduced to by his brother, Michael, who appeared as one of Jillian Harris’ suitors. The pair, who wed in 2012, are now parents to two children, daughter Addison and son Austin.

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Angela Amezcua and Clay Harbor

Amezcua was introduced to Bachelor Nation in 2017 when she appeared on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor and later joined the Bachelor in Paradise cast. Though she didn’t find love on either show, Amezcua later found it with Harbor who was a contestant on Kufrin’s season in 2018. Harbor gushed over his newfound love in an Instagram post in September 2018. “What do the kids call it? Woman crush Wednesday? Well here’s mine,” he captioned a pic of the pair looking cozy together.

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Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders

The now-parents of three first attempted to find everlasting happiness as contestants on The Bachelor and Bachelorette. Csincsak, for his part, received the final rose from Pappas in 2008 but called it quits on their relationship just four months after the finale aired. The previous year, Lueders was sent home by Jason Mesnick on week 1 of his season. The two met in 2010 at a Bachelor event hosted by the professional skateboarder and wed that same year. They share two sons, Noah and Carter, and a daughter, Charlotte.