Andi Dorfman and Blaine Hart’s Relationship Timeline

Greater than 5 years after Andi Dorfman handed out roses on The Bachelorette, she has accepted a proposal from Blaine Hart.

The lawyer first appeared on season 18 of The Bachelor, which aired in 2014. After she (infamously) dumped Juan Pablo Galavis through the fantasy suite dates, Dorfman was named the season 10 Bachelorette. Throughout her season, she picked Josh Murray over runner-up Nick Viall.

5 months after the finale aired, Dorfman emotionally confirmed the top of their engagement in an interview with Chris Harrison in February 2015. She later accused the previous baseball participant of being emotionally abusive in her first e-book, It’s Not Okay. (Murray denied the allegations on the time.)

Whereas Dorfman continued to element her romantic ventures, writing a follow-up e-book, Single State of Thoughts, about courting in New York Metropolis, she stored the names of her suitors underneath wraps. In fall 2021, she started to tease that she was in a severe relationship.

“I’ve all the time, clearly, been sort of coy with relationships having carried out the present and had that publicity and it simply being an enormous deal sort of blowing up in my face, so I’ve been fairly coy about it,” Dorfman solely informed Us Weekly in February 2022, two months after she revealed Hart’s identification. “I simply met somebody that I needed everybody to find out about. It sounds cliché, however [I wanted to] shout from the rooftops. I used to be like, ‘I would like everybody to know the way blissful I’m in love and I feel the response is nice as a result of I didn’t know what the response could be.’ Clearly, I haven’t brazenly talked about relationships and everybody’s been like, ‘Oh, I really like seeing you so blissful,’ and so I feel that’s positively made me sort of need to even go deeper and share extra of it as a result of I notice individuals are really blissful for me to search out love.”

Dorfman and Hart initially met 15 years prior by way of a mutual buddy. They reconnected in Italy throughout summer time 2021.

“I feel we have now an amazing chemistry, a very good connection,” the business actual property skilled gushed to Us in February 2022. “She’s very good, additionally very humorous, retains me laughing … The record is lengthy, however the humor is on the high.”

One month later, he proposed on the seashore in Los Angeles.

“I don’t even bear in mind what he stated, I simply bear in mind hugging him and crying. I didn’t even bear in mind seeing the ring at first,” she gushed to Folks in March 2022, noting that he acquired her dad and mom’ permission earlier than he acquired down on one knee. “After which after, one of the best half was, he informed me as a substitute of dinner we had been going to remain the evening at Lodge Bel-Air. So we drove house to pack a bag and once I opened the door to our house, each of our households and my closest pals had been there to shock me. That’s once I actually began bawling. My nephew and niece had been there and got here operating as much as us. It was cute. And seems, Blaine had been planning with our households and my pals for a month to get all of it organized and I had completely no clue!”

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