‘Bachelor’ Leads Who Dated Their Seasons Contestants Publish-Break up

Circling again for extra roses? Not each Bachelor or Bachelorette star finds love with their closing choose — and a few leads select to present their former contestants a second likelihood as soon as they’re again in the marketplace.

Whereas the ABC collection has managed to assist discover a number of women and men discover their fortunately ever after — together with Sean Lowe and season 17 winner Catherine Giudici, who’re married with three kids — a few of the present’s leads don’t keep engaged to their prime suitor.

In actual fact, many stars of the present, together with season 16’s Clare Crawley and Dale Moss, have fizzled out on multiple event after attempting to make issues work. A number of of the relationship collection’ leads, nevertheless, have chosen to return to their season’s contestants to seek for a possible perpetually love — together with Jason Mesnick.

The season 13 lead proposed to Melissa Rycroft throughout the present’s 2009 finale, however issues didn’t final between the pair. Mesnick known as issues off throughout the After the Last Rose particular, turning his consideration on runner-up Molly Malaney.

“Melissa is a superb lady, however there wasn’t any chemistry,” he instructed Us Weekly on the time. “So I broke up along with her after Christmas, a few month after we wrapped. Clearly, I didn’t need all of it on TV, however I needed to take the possibility if it meant getting [Molly] again. I’d reasonably have picked up the cellphone, belief me!”

The account govt isn’t the one franchise star to circle again to one in every of his TV exes and pursue a romance outdoors the present — Arie Luyendyk Jr. discovered love along with his runner-up, Lauren Burnham, after breaking off his engagement to Becca Kufrin.

One month after season 17 Bachelorette Katie Thurston and fiancé Blake Moynes confirmed their break up, Us reported that the Washington native was relationship one other man from her season: John Hersey.

“Web rumors lead me to this man turning into a pricey expensive pal,” Thurston wrote alongside pics with Hersey in September 2021 after relocating to San Diego and sparking a powerful bond with the bartender. The next month, she and Moynes revealed they known as it quits after six months collectively.

“It’s with mutual love and respect that now we have determined to go our separate methods,” the duo stated in a joint assertion in October 2021. “We’re so grateful for the moments we shared collectively and your complete journey that has unfolded this 12 months, however we in the end have concluded that we aren’t appropriate as life companions, and it’s the most caring alternative for each of us to maneuver ahead independently.”

Thurston revealed her new love through her Instagram Story in November 2021 as a part of her “12 Days of Messy” problem through which she in contrast her former contestants to Taylor Swift songs. She unveiled Hersey as “Start Once more,” hinting that he was her recent begin.

Scroll all the way down to see which Bachelor Nation leads dated one in every of their seasons’ contestants after the present: