Former ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette’ Stars Who Found Lasting Love After the Show: Peter Kraus and More

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Former ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette’ Stars Who Found Lasting Love After the Show: Peter Kraus and More

Some Bachelor and Bachelorette stars had more luck in the love department outside the reality dating series, finding their forever without the prying eyes of cameras. Ali Fedotowsky and Peter Kraus are among the alums who found The One after appearing on the show. “I went on the show for a good time. I didn’t go on for love,” Fedotowsky told Luxury Handbag Shopping exclusively in 2019. "Nobody goes on the show for love and then they’re just surprised when they actually do fall in love." While she and Roberto Martinez were briefly engaged, the pair split and Fedotowsky moved on with now-husband Kevin Manno, with whom she shares two kids. Kraus, meanwhile, moved on with Hana Ostapchuk after appearing on Rachel Lindsay’s season of The Bachelorette. Kraus and Ostapchuk tied the knot in December 2025, and they’re expecting their first baby together. Scroll to discover which Bachelor Nation alums found love after reality TV heartbreak:

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Former ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette’ Stars Who Found Lasting Love After the Show: Peter Kraus and More

Some Bachelor and Bachelorette stars had more luck in the love department outside the reality dating series, finding their forever without the prying eyes of cameras. Ali Fedotowsky and Peter Kraus are among the alums who found The One after appearing on the show. “I went on the show for a good time. I didn’t go on for love,” Fedotowsky told Luxury Handbag Shopping exclusively in 2019. "Nobody goes on the show for love and then they’re just surprised when they actually do fall in love." While she and Roberto Martinez were briefly engaged, the pair split and Fedotowsky moved on with now-husband Kevin Manno, with whom she shares two kids. Kraus, meanwhile, moved on with Hana Ostapchuk after appearing on Rachel Lindsay’s season of The Bachelorette. Kraus and Ostapchuk tied the knot in December 2025, and they’re expecting their first baby together. Scroll to discover which Bachelor Nation alums found love after reality TV heartbreak:

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Peter Kraus

Peter Kraus appeared on The Bachelorette season 13 in 2017, where he vied for Rachel Lindsay’s heart. Years after ending the season as runner-up, Kraus met Hana Ostapchuk on the dating app Raya in 2024. The pair got engaged in July 2025 and announced that September that they’re expecting baby No. 1. In December 2025, Kraus and Ostapchuk tied the knot in her parents’ backyard in Florida.

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Gabby Windey

The Bachelorette season 19 co-lead split from her final rose recipient, Erich Schwer, shortly after the season came to an end. In August 2023, Windey revealed she was dating a woman, whom she later revealed as writer and comedian Robby Hoffman. In March 2025, the couple announced they secretly tied the knot in Las Vegas two months prior.

“Husband and wife!! 1/11/2025 🥂💍,” Windey captioned Instagram pics from their intimate Sin City ceremony.

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Jesse Palmer

Palmer split from season 5 winner Jessica Bowlin just months after filming wrapped in 2004 . He moved on with Emely Fardo, proposing in July 2019. The couple quietly tied the knot in June 2020, but they didn’t confirm the marriage until October 2021. Their daughter, Ella, was born in January 2024.

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Vanessa Grimaldi

The season 21 Bachelor winner split from Nick Viall in August 2017, five months after the finale aired. The Canada native moved on with businessman Joshua Wolfe in 2019. The pair wed in August 2021 after getting engaged one year prior. Their son, Winston Franco, was born in September 2022.

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Michelle Young

The season 18 Bachelorette left the show engaged to Nayte Olukoya during her December 2021 finale. By June 2022, they called it quits. Young has since moved on with Jack Leius, whom she went public with in October 2023. A year later, the pair got engaged. Young and Leius tied the knot in June 2025.

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Seinne Fleming

After competing on Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season of the dating series in 2018, Fleming found love with Doug Filmore. The former TV personality and the real estate agent got engaged in August 2021. 

“I knew he was the one from the moment I met him, because I’d never felt the way I felt for him with anyone else," Fleming exclusively told Luxury Handbag Shopping after the romantic proposal. “He has become my best friend and is truly the most kind and loving person I’ve ever known.”

Fleming and Filmore got married in December 2022.

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Haley and Emily Ferguson

The twins both vied for Ben Higgins’ heart during season 20 of The Bachelor in 2016. They later starred on their own spinoff, The Twins: Happily Ever After? and appeared on seasons 3 and 4 of Bachelor in Paradise. Emily got engaged to NHL player William Karlsson in December 2020. Five months later, Haley announced that she and Finland hockey star Oula Palve were also getting married. 

Emily and Karlsson got married in July 2022. Their son Beckham was born in May 2023 and in November 2024, the couple announced that they were gearing up for baby No. 2.

Haley and Palve, meanwhile, tied the knot in June 2022. Their first baby, Lovi Lavigne, was born in April 2024.

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Lauren Bushnell

The season 20 Bachelor winner ended her engagement to Higgins in May 2017 after getting engaged during the show’s finale in March 2016. The Oregon native found love with musician Chris Lane one year later and tied the knot in Nashville in October 2019. They welcomed their first child, son Dutton, in June 2021. Their second child, Baker, was born in October 2022.

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Ben Higgins

The former Bachelor, who was previously engaged to Bushnell from 2016 to 2017, slid into Jessica Clark’s DMs in late 2018. The pair became Instagram official in February 2019. Higgins proposed to the Tennessee native one year later in March 2020 at her parents’ home in Franklin. They got married in November 2021 and announced in August 2024 that they were gearing up to welcome baby No. 1.

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Wells Adams

The season 12 Bachelorette contestant started dating Sarah Hyland in 2017. The pair got engaged two years later and were supposed to tie the knot in August 2020 but had to postpone amid the coronavirus pandemic. Two years later, the pair finally exchanged their vows.

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John Graham

Nearly one year after Becca Kufrin’s Bachelorette season aired in late 2018, Graham went public with his relationship with Brittni Nowell in February 2019. The pair announced their engagement in November 2020.

“It’s official! I love you @bee_nowell for making me a better person with my friends and family, helping me feel & articulate my emotions, and always putting our relationship first,” he wrote via Instagram. “I’m blessed to have won at life by finding you ❤️.”

The engineer continued, “I proposed along the Sonoma coast. I was so nervous when I got down on one knee. I’m pretty sure I blacked out in the moment, but then she pulled me up and wouldn’t let go of me. Don’t ever let me go!”

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Ali Fedotowsky

The season 6 Bachelorette ended her engagement to Roberto Martinez in November 2011. She moved on with Kevin Manno, whom she wed in March 2017. Daughter Molly and son Riley arrived in July 2016 and May 2018, respectively.

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Bob Guiney

Guiney and his final pick from season 4 of The Bachelor, Estella Gardinier, didn’t last. He also split from wife Rebecca Budig in 2010 after six years of marriage. The TV personality exchanged vows with Jessica Canyon in November 2016. The couple’s son, Grayson, was born in December 2018.

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Jillian Harris

The Love It or List It Vancouver star broke up with fiancé Ed Swiderski in July 2010 after leaving season 5 of The Bachelorette engaged. The reality star announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Justin Pasutto in December 2016. The pair welcomed son Leo in August 2016 and daughter Annie in September 2018. She and Pasutto tied the knot in 2025.

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Andrew Firestone

Firestone popped the question to Jen Schefft during season 3 of The Bachelor, but he ended up marrying Ivana Bozilovic in 2008. The duo’s kids, Brooks, Anja and Shane, arrived in March 2009, April 2011 and January 2014, respectively. In September 2025, Firestone shared via Instagram that he and Bozilovic split after 17 years of marriage. Shortly after uploading the post, it was deleted. 

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Jen Schefft

Schefft, for her part, never got engaged to her Bachelorette season 3 pick, Jerry Ferris. Instead, she tied the knot with Joe Waterman in 2009. The couple welcomed daughters Mae in November 2010 and Charlotte in August 2012.

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Charlie O’Connell

O’Connell ended his on-off relationship with his Bachelor season 7 final rose recipient, Sarah Brice, in 2010. The actor married Anna Sophia Berglund in May 2018.

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Emily Maynard

Maynard’s engagements to Brad Womack and Jef Holm did not work out. However, she tied the knot with Tyler Johnson in June 2014. The couple have since welcomed five kids —Jennings, Gibson, Gatlin, Nola and Jones. Johnson is also stepfather to Maynard’s eldest child, daughter Ricki, whom she welcomed with her late fiancé, Hendrick.

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Travis Stork

Stork split from season 8 Bachelor winner Sarah Stone before things turned serious and later broke up with wife Charlotte Brown in 2015 after three years of marriage. He wed longtime girlfriend Parris Bell in August 2019.

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Matt Grant

The season 12 Bachelor ended his engagement to Shayne Lamas in 2008. The Brit married Rebecca Moring in December 2018.

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Meredith Phillips

Phillips tied the knot with Michael Broady in 2011 after calling it quits with fiancé Ian Mckee one year after meeting on season 2 of The Bachelorette.

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Byron Velvick

The season 6 Bachelor called off his engagement to Mary Delgado in December 2009. He wed Belinda Velvick in March 2015. The couple are parents of daughter Kamber.

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Aaron Buerge

Buerge ended things with fiancée Helene Eksterowicz shortly after the season 2 Bachelor finale aired. He married Angye McIntosh in August 2009 and welcomed daughter Aven the following October.