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WHERE ARE THEY NOW: All the winning 'Bachelor' couples
Megan Willett,Claudia Willen  Â
- ABC's hit reality show "The Bachelor" is going on its 25th season.
- While many of the men left the show paired up with a winner, most of the couples have broken up.
- Here's a look at where all the couples on "The Bachelor" ended up.
It's been 18 years since ABC's "The Bachelor" first premiered on television.
The popular reality show has faced its fair share of criticism for the way it portrays relationships since its debut. Most recently, "The Bachelor" came under fire for its lack of diversity, finally casting a Black lead for the first time after 24 seasons on air.
Despite its flaws, the show has become one of ABC's best-performing reality series and has birthed multiple spin-offs, such as "The Bachelorette" and "Bachelor in Paradise." And though there's been plenty of seasons, the majority of the men aren't with the winner they ended up with at the end of their seasons.
Here's where the winning "Bachelor" couples ended up.
Anjelica Oswald contributed to an earlier version of this story.
Season 1: Alex Michel picked Amanda Marsh, but didn't propose.
Michel selected Marsh at the end of the show's first season, but didn't propose.
The two dated for a nearly a year before Marsh broke up with him after reportedly learning he was keeping in touch with runner-up Trista Rehn.
She told TV's "Inside Edition" that Rehn warned her that Michel tried to "keep the door open" with her in case his relationship with Marsh didn't pan out.
Michel is reportedly married with children and continues to work in the business world.
"The Bachelor" was Michel's first and last time on reality television.
After his season wrapped, he became a spokesperson for Match.com and partnered with Princess Cruises. Ultimately, the Stanford Business School graduate worked for various companies like Microsoft and Generation Consulting, according to his LinkedIn.
He resides in Washington D.C. and is married with children, Marsh told Us Weekly in July 2020.
Marsh is married and works as a registered nurse.
Marsh went on to marry her childhood friend Jay Caldwell and had a daughter named Chloe with him.
They later divorced, and Marsh got engaged to an advertising executive named Chris Evans. In April, they celebrated their fourth anniversary.
She works as a nurse practitioner and lives in Kansas City.
Season 2: Helene Eksterowicz and Aaron Buerge's engagement ended five weeks after the finale.
Buerge proposed to Eksterowicz at the end of season two of "The Bachelor." However, their engagement didn't last long.
According to Eksterowicz, Buerge broke up with her at a Starbucks near her apartment five weeks after show ended, telling her that he wasn't "emotionally invested" in their relationship anymore.
"It felt like a bomb dropped," she said, as reported by People. "I said, 'I feel very deceived by you. You've told me every single day that you love me, and now this is it?' "
Buerge got married in 2009 and has three children.
Buerge married a woman named Angye McIntosh in 2009, and they have three children.
Two years later, the banker and restaurant owner declared personal bankruptcy, stating that the bank holding his loan had collapsed, and the new note holder required payment sooner than expect, according to People.
Buerge and his family now live in Missouri.
Eksterowicz works as a school psychologist in New Jersey and is married with a child.
Season 3: Andrew Firestone proposed to Jen Schefft, but the two broke up a few months later.
Although Firestone got down on one knee and popped the question to Schefft on the third season of "The Bachelor," the couple called it quits months later.
They released the following statement, according to Today: "This is a decision we made together through long and thoughtful discussion. It is totally amicable and, though we care for each other deeply, we have come to realize that our future goals are different."
Firestone later married actress Ivana Bozilovic and shares three children with her.
Years after his split from Schefft, Firestone married Bozilovic. They now share three children — two sons and a daughter.
Firestone, who now lives in Santa Barbara, California, co-founded StonePark Capital, a hospitality development company.
Schefft went on to star on ABC's "The Bachelorette."
Schefft went on to star on the third season of ABC's "The Bachelorette," but she didn't end up with any of the show's contestants.
After the season wrapped, she wrote a book called "Better Single Than Sorry."
She eventually married a businessman named Joe Waterman in 2009 and had two daughters with him.
The former reality star recently began working in public relations and marketing for a medical spa.
Season 4: Bob Guiney gave a promise ring to Estella Gardinier, but the two separated soon after the finale aired.
Guiney decided on a promise ring over a proposal to get to know Gardinier a little better. And good thing she did, their relationship ended shortly after the show.
Guiney has been married twice and continues to appear on television.
Guiney married actress Rebecca Budig in 2004, however they divorced in 2010. He later married Jessica Canyon in 2016 and had a son with her.
After "The Bachelor," he appeared as the television host of "GSN Live" and "Date My House."
Gardinier works as a fitness instructor at CORE40 Studios and is the founder of a wellness program called Project Love You.
The former reality star is a real estate broker, fitness trainer, and founder of Project Love You, a "non-profit committed to educate, empower, and inspire at-risk youth through Integrative Nutrition & Wellness," according to her LinkedIn.
She resides in California.
Season 5: Jessica Bowlin and Jesse Palmer didn't get engaged at the end of the show, but they continued to date.
The former NFL Giants quarterback and Bowlin's romance didn't last long in the real world.
Less than a month after the finale aired, TV's "Extra" reported that Bowlin and Palmer broke up.
Palmer became a football analyst for ABC and ESPN.
He's made multiple appearances on "The Chew," "Rachael Ray," and "Good Morning America." Palmer even appeared on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
And in 2019, he proposed to his girlfriend Emely Fardo, a Brazilian model.
Bowlin is an attorney with two children.
Now an attorney, Bowlin graduated from East Carolina University and Chapman University Law School, passing the State Bar of California in 2007.
In 2013, she married Omar Rawi and now has two children with him.
Season 6: Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado called off their engagement five years after meeting on "The Bachelor."
Five years after getting engaged on the season six finale, the professional bass fisherman and the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleader decided to part ways.
Velvick retired from professional fishing in 2016 and is married with a child.
Velvick has continued to fish professionally, participating in more than 150 tournaments in his career before retiring in 2016, according to Gazette Review. He's also appeared on numerous fishing-related television shows.
In 2015, he married Belinda Juarez. They share a daughter.
Delgado is married and works in real estate.
After multiple run-ins with the law, Delgado married James Kordomenos in Cuba in 2015.
Now, she works as a real estate broker in Tampa, Florida.
Season 7: Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice had an on-again, off-again relationship before breaking up in 2010.
At the end of season seven, the actor chose Brice as the winner, but didn't propose. Instead, they continued to date for five years, breaking up and getting back together before they ultimately decided to call it quits in 2010.
O'Connell has continued acting since his season of "The Bachelor" and got married in 2018.
His most recent film was "Staged Killer" (2019), which starred "Selling Sunset" star Chrishell Stause.
After "The Bachelor," O'Connell married Anna Sophia Berglund, an actress and Playboy model, in 2018.
Brice is now married with kids and works in business.
Brice is now married to Brandt Calver and has three sons. She's also the vice president of business development at a company called Cliovana, according to her Instagram.
Season 8: Travis Stork and Sarah Stone broke up after the season finale aired.
The couple didn't get engaged at the end of season eight but continued to see each other. They broke up a week after the finale aired, according to Us Weekly.
Stork continued to make television appearances after "The Bachelor" and recently welcomed his first child with his wife.
Stork was a medical expert on "Dr. Phil" before becoming a co-host on the talk show "The Doctors."
He married pediatrician Charlotte Brown in 2012 but the pair divorced in 2015. He later tied the knot with Parris Bell in 2019, and they had a son.
Stone co-hosts a podcast and shares three daughters with her husband.
Stone married a man named Brock Smith and shares three daughters with him. They live in Nashville, Tennessee.
She's also a co-host of the "Say It Southern" podcast.
Season 9: Prince Lorenzo Borghese and Jennifer Wilson never got engaged, but the two dated before breaking up several months after the show ended.
The businessman and the teacher dated after the show but broke up in 2007.
Borghese has appeared in various onscreen projects.
He's been featured on a reality spoof called "America's Next Top Dog: The Princess," wrote a book called "The Princess of Nowhere," and appeared on the U.K.'s 10th season of "Big Brother."
Borghese hasn't gotten married since appearing on "The Bachelor."
Wilson is married and lives in South Florida.
According to PopSugar, Wilson got married to an accountant named Lee Gerschutz and resides in Florida.
Season 10: Andrew Baldwin was engaged to Tessa Horst for a few months before calling it off.
The U.S. Naval Officer doctor and the social worker called of their engagement, but continued to date before permanently breaking up.
Baldwin started a non-profit and competes in athletic competitions.
According to Gazette Review, Baldwin has competed in the All-Navy triathlon team five times, appeared on the premiere of "Top Chef," and does frequent charity work.
He also founded a non-profit called Got Your Back Network that helps families that lost a loved one in active service.
Baldwin reportedly remains single.
Horst is married and founded the Infant Growth Group.
Following her appearance on "The Bachelor," Horst got married to a man named Tom Pickard and had a son with him, according to Us Weekly. She also founded the Infant Growth Group and lives in San Francisco.
Season 11: Brad Womack was the first "Bachelor" to leave two women in tears when he didn't choose either Deanna Pappas or Jenni Croft.
Instead of proposing to one of the show's final contestants, Womack rejected both of them and left the show as a single man.
Womack returned as "The Bachelor" on season 15.
The winemaker didn't find love the second time around either. He proposed to contestant Emily Maynard at the end of season 15, however they broke up after a few months.
Womack has no social media accounts and hasn't appeared on television since the show.
Pappas became "The Bachelorette" on show's fourth season.
Though she didn't find love on the show, she later married Stephen Stagliano, the twin brother of another "Bachelorette" cast member named Michael Stagliano. They have two children together.
Season 12: Matt Grant became engaged to Shayne Lamas, but the two parted ways five months later.
The English financier chose the actress at the end of the season, however they broke up after the show.
Grant continues to work in finance and is married.
Grant continued to work in banking after the show wrapped. He also married Rebecca Moring in 2017.
Lamas is married with two children.
After winning "The Bachelor," Lamas later married Nik Richie, the founder of gossip website TheDirty.com. Lamas and Richie appeared on VH1's "Couple's Therapy."
They have two children together: a daughter who Lamas gave birth to and a son, born via surrogate thanks to her stepmother.
Season 13: Jason Mesnick proposed to Melissa Rycroft, but later broke up with her.
The single father left season 13 engaged to Rycroft, but later changed his mind, breaking up with her on national television during the "After the Final Rose" segment.
After dumping Rycroft, he rekindled with runner-up Molly Malaney.
Mesnick and Malaney are still married and have two children together.
They tied the knot in 2010 during an ABC "Bachelor" special and are still together. They have two children.
Rycroft competed on "Dancing With the Stars" and is married with three children.
The former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" and hosted "Bachelor Pad."
She also married insurance agent Tye Strickland in 2009. The couple now has three children together.
Season 14: Jake Pavelk proposed to Vienna Girardi before a messy breakup.
Months after the finale, the couple officially ended their engagement.
Pavelka still flies planes and has made appearances on other reality television shows.
Pavelka is still a pilot.
After "The Bachelor," he went on to star in more reality series, from ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and "Bachelor Pad" to VH1's "Famous Food." He's also guest-starred on "The Bold and the Beautiful."
Girardi is currently dating a man named Jay Husagic.
Girardi got engaged to race car driver Todd Allen in 2016, but they ultimately called it off. According to her Instagram, she's in a relationship with a man named Jay Husagic.
In 2017, she opened up the loss of her twins 18 weeks into her pregnancy.
Season 15: Womack returned to "The Bachelor" and chose Emily Maynard, but they didn't end up getting married.
After failing to find a partner on season 11, Womack returned as the star of season 15. He ended up choosing the children's hospital event planner and single mother, but they ultimately broke up.
Maynard published a book and is now married with children.
The former "Bachelor" contestant married Tyler Johnson, an automotive management consultant, in 2014. She's also a mother to four children.
Maynard also wrote a book called "I Said Yes: My Story of Heartbreak, Redemption, and True Love," which was released in 2016.
Season 16: Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson broke up on the show, got back together, and became engaged before ultimately calling off their wedding.
The winemaker and the model broke up less than a year after Flajnik popped the question.
Flajnik has a brand of wine called Fernet Francisco and lives in San Francisco.
Since "The Bachelor," Flajnik founded Fernet Francisco and Ion Wines. He's dated, but hasn't married anyone since the show.
Robertson wrote a memoir, "I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends," about her time on the show.
In 2014, Robertson's book, "I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends," came out. It detailed her relationship with Flajnik, which he "wasn't happy" about.
She's currently engaged to Humberto Preciado and has a son with him.
Season 17: Entrepreneur Sean Lowe proposed to graphic designer Catherine Giudici and married her in 2014.
The couple tied the knot at the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara in 2014. The wedding aired live on ABC so that fans could tune in.
Lowe and Giudici are still together and have three kids.
Giudici and Lowe are one of the few "Bachelor" couples that lasted and remain together today.
After the show wrapped, they continued to appear on a bunch of reality shows, including "Dancing With the Stars" and "Celebrity Wife Swap."
In 2015, Lowe released a memoir called "For the Right Reasons: America's Favorite Bachelor on Faith, Love, Marriage, and Why Nice Guys Finish First."
He now works in real estate while Giudici is in charge of LoweCo, their greeting card company. They also released a line of Wayfair furniture together.
Lowe and Giudici share three children: Samuel, Isaiah, and Mia.
Season 18: Juan Pablo Galavis didn't propose to Nikki Ferrell, but they dated for a long time before ending their relationship in 2014.
The two dated after the show, even appearing on "Couples Therapy," before ending their relationship in 2014.
Galavis is a sports and music consultant and recently divorced TV host Osmariel Villalobos.
Since his time on "The Bachelor," Galavis has mostly stayed away from the franchise. However, he did have a heated exchange with upcoming "Bachelorette" Clare Crawley ahead of her season.
According to Galavis' Instagram, he's a "sports and music consultant." He continues to raise his daughter Camila, whom he shares with ex Carla RodrÃguez.
Galavis married television host Osmariel Villalobos in 2017, however they divorced two years later.
Ferrell got married to sales executive Tyler Vanloo in 2016 and works as a pediatric nurse.
Ferrell, who now works as a pediatric nurse, found her happily ever after with Tyler Vanloo. They tied the knot in 2016.
Season 19: Iowa farmer Chris Soules got engaged to fertility nurse Whitney Bischoff.
The couple ended their engagement just two months after the proposal aired on television.
Soules is still a farmer and was recently linked to "Bachelor" contestant Victoria Fuller.
After his season of "The Bachelor" wrapped, Soules continues to farm. He did appear on reality television again, with a brief stint on "Dancing With the Stars."
In 2017, Soules was arrested and charged with fleeing the scene of a fatal accident, a felony, after rear-ending a tractor, calling the police, and leaving the scene before they arrived. The man driving the tractor, Kenny Mosher, died. Soules accepted a suspended prison sentence to serve two years on probation in 2019, E! News reported.
Today, he still lives in Iowa and was recently rumored to be dating Victoria Fuller, who appeared on season 24 of "The Bachelor." She later confirmed they'd since broken up.
Bischoff married Ricky Angel, a regional sales manager, and lives in Chicago.
In 2017, Bischoff married the sales manager at a ceremony on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She still works as a fertility nurse and lives in Chicago.
The couple welcomed their first child, Hayes, in 2019.
Season 20: Business analyst Ben Higgins proposed to flight attendant Lauren Bushnell.
The couple broke up a year and a half after their engagement.
Higgins co-founded Generous International and is engaged.
After "The Bachelor," Higgins co-founded Generous Coffee, a for-purpose business that donates profits to social causes around the globe.
He also hosts a podcast called "Almost Famous" with fellow "Bachelor" alum Ashley Iaconetti. Higgins is also set to release a book called "Alone in Plain Sight" in 2021.
Higgins is currently engaged to Jessica Clarke, who works at Valet Energy in Nashville.
Bushnell is married to Chris Lane and lives in Nashville.
She married the country singer in Nashville, Tennessee in 2019. She's also an influencer with 1.4 million Instagram followers.
Season 21: Nick Viall proposed to special education teacher Vanessa Grimaldi, but they broke up months after the show aired.
After being the runner-up on season 10 and 11 of "The Bachelorette," Viall starred on season 21 of "The Bachelor" and proposed to Grimaldi.
Five months after the series aired, Grimaldi and Viall ended their engagement.
Viall competed on "Dancing With the Stars" and started a podcast called "The Viall Files."
Viall appeared on television several times following her time as "The Bachelor."
He competed on season 24 of "Dancing With the Stars" and made appearances in television movies and shows such as "A Christmas Cruise," "General Hospital," and "The Coop."
Viall also launched a podcast called "The Viall Files," on which he discusses relationships. He's also the CEO and founder of a company called Natural Habits Essential Oils.
Grimaldi works as a special education teacher and is engaged.
Grimaldi lives in Montreal and works as a special education teacher.
She founded a company called No Better You, which specializes in building sensory rooms for schools with special education programs, and started her own lifestyle YouTube channel.
In August 2020, she got engaged to Canadian businessman Josh Wolfe, whom she'd been dating for a year and a half.
Season 22: Arie Luyendyk Jr. proposed to Becca Kufrin at the end of the season, but ended up dumping her on camera so he could be with the runner-up Lauren Burnham.
At the end of season 22, Luyendyk got down on one knee and proposed to Kufrin.
Around two months later, he ended the engagement with Kufrin so that he could have another chance with Burnham.
He later proposed to Burnham on the "After the Final Rose" episode.
Luyendyk works in real estate and is still married to Burnham. They have a daughter together.
According to Luyendyk's Instagram, he continues to work as a race car driver and also has a career in real estate.
He married Burnham in Hawaii in 2019, less than a year after the "After the Final Rose" episode. They share a daughter named Alessi together.
Becca starred on season 14 of "The Bachelorette."
She got engaged to contestant Garrett Yrigoyen at the end of the show, but they eventually called off their two-year engagement in 2020.
Kufrin co-hosts "Bachelor Live" and a podcast called "Bachelor Happy Hour." She also created a clothing brand called B the Label.
And according to her Instagram page, she recently moved to Los Angeles.
Season 23: Colton Underwood's winner, Cassie Randolph, eliminated herself, but he won her back.
Underwood was down to his final three contestants when Randolph left him because she wasn't ready to get engaged.
The former professional football player was so torn up about her leaving that he jumped a fence after their date in Portugal and said he was "done" with the show.
Upon returning, he dumped the other two contestants and attempted to win Randolph back. The two eventually reconciled and dated after the show.
Underwood published a memoir about his experience on "The Bachelor" and is now single.
The season 23 "Bachelor" moved to Los Angeles after the show.
In March 2020, Underwood released his memoir, "The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV," around the same time he was diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Randolph, who he'd been dating since the show wrapped, helped him through the illness before they split up in May 2020. He later got a matching tattoo with her, leaving fans wondering if they would rekindle.
Months later, he was rumored to be dating actress Lucy Hale after they were spotted on a hike together. However, he later denied that he was romantically involved with the "Pretty Little Liars' star and said he was single.
And while he and Randolph appeared to amicably end their relationship back in May, the speech-language pathologist accused Underwood of "harassing and stalking" her, according to Today. In September, Randolph was granted a temporary restraining order against Underwood.
Underwood has remained quiet about the allegations and has since been quiet on social media.
Randolph lives in Los Angeles and works as a speech-language pathologist.
Randolph continues to work as a speech-language pathologist in California.
Following her split from Underwood, she said that she'd had "an awful few months" trying to recover.
And while the news that she got a temporary restraining order against Underwood made headlines, Randolph appears to be spending time with friends and family in California, based on social media.
Season 24: Peter Weber proposed to Hannah Ann Sluss at the end of the season, but called off their engagement.
Even though the pilot got down on one knee to propose to Sluss, he broke up with her shortly after. Fans were shocked to see the split on the "After the Final Rose" episode of season 24.
Weber and Madison Prewett, the runner-up that left after she learned that Weber had been intimate with other contestants, admitted that they still had feelings for each other.
However, they announced that they'd decided to go their "separate ways" after the show.
Peter Weber is in a relationship with Kelley Flanagan, a contestant on his season of "The Bachelor."
After the season wrapped, Weber announced that he was dating Flanagan, a lawyer in Chicago that he met before she joined the season 24 cast.
The couple has been together throughout the pandemic and frequently shares videos of their travels together.
Hannah Ann Sluss is single and moved to Los Angeles.
Sluss moved to Los Angeles after the show and continues to model. She's also an influencer and has 1.3 million followers on Instagram.
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