‘Bachelor’ Stars Who Ended Up With Somebody They Met Earlier than the Present

Melissa Rycroft, Nikki Ferrell and extra Bachelor stars ended up marrying somebody they knew earlier than their try to seek out love on TV.

Rycroft, for her half, dated Tye Strickland earlier than she left to movie season 13 of The Bachelor in 2008.

“Tye tried to name me, like, proper as I obtained again within the nation from filming, he was calling,” Rycroft recalled on Us Weekly’s “Right here for the Proper Causes” podcast in August 2020, noting he wished her again. “I didn’t consider [him]. I imply, I used to be like, ‘No matter.’ And never solely that, I’m engaged and I’m comfortable and you’re a device bag.”

Whereas the previous Dallas Cowboys cheerleader obtained engaged to Jason Mesnick throughout the finale, which aired in 2009, he broke off their engagement to reunite with runner-up Molly Malaney. Following the break up, Rycroft reconnected with Strickland.

“After which I simply began speaking to him once more as a pal. And three, 4 weeks after that, we formally obtained again collectively beneath the stipulation that I mentioned, ‘This time, it’s for good,’ you already know,” she defined. “He was a tough relationship to recover from, which is why I even went on the present and I had simply gone by all the things with Jason and I used to be, like, I don’t know if [I was] emotionally ready to actually get right into a relationship once more, but it surely was with Tye, it was the man that I had wished to be with earlier than all of this occurred. And I feel having the present air, we weren’t actually allowed to see one another, you already know, so we simply obtained to speak and give attention to our friendship. And I feel that’s what made the connection the second time round that a lot stronger.”

Rycroft and Strickland wed in December 2009 and went on to welcome three children: Ava, Beckett and Cayson. (Mesnick and Malaney, in the meantime, wed in 2010 and share daughter Riley.)

“2008 for me was unusual. I left filmed a actuality present I obtained engaged. I obtained dumped after which come 2009, I obtained in a brand new relationship. I’m engaged,” Rycroft concluded. “And by the tip of 2009, I used to be married.”

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