The Bachelor and Bachelorette have given us some fairy tale romances over the years. They've also given us some messy, shocking, even epic breakups.
More of the latter, as card-carrying members of Bachelor Nation know well.
The Bachelor Couples: Are They Still Together?
1.
Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff
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Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff just got engaged on The Bachelor season finale in March 2015. It seems like they are still together, as happy as ever and built to last ... but stay tuned.
2.
Ashley Hebert and JP Rosenbaum
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Ashley Hebert and JP Rosenbaum are married. He won her heart on The Bachelorette.
3.
Brad Womack and Emily Maynard
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Brad Womack and Emily Maynard did not last. He chose no one on his first stint on The Bachelor, making in 0-for-2.
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Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi
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Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi got engaged on The Bachelor. They broke up in epic fashion and did not last long, to the surprise of no one.
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Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici
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Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici got engaged on The Bachelor in 2013. They are set to wed in early 2014.
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Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried
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Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried got engaged on The Bachelorette in 2013. They are still a thing!
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Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney
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Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney got engaged, and married, and had a kid! After he dumped his final rose recipient Melissa Rycroft and chose Molly instead ... close enough.
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Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson
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Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson got engaged on The Bachelor, and lasted for about a year. They broke up.
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Travis Stork and Sarah Stone
Travis Stork and Sarah Stone broke up before The Bachelor finale and After the Final Rose special even aired. Now that takes decidation to not making it work.
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Emily Maynard and Jef Holm
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Emily Maynard and Jef Holm broke up really fast. She chose Jef with one F over Sean Lowe on The Bachelorette. Bad call.
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Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez
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Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez dated for a long while. They didn't last, however.
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Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice
Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice are obviously not still together. But they sure made a cute pairing on the early years of the ABC reality franchise.
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13.
Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski
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Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski's engagement was short-lived. She's better off for it.
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Jesse Csincsak and Deanna Pappas
Jesse Csincsak and Deanna Pappas got engaged after The Bachelorette chose him over Jason Mesnick. Did not take.
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Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter
Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter have been together so long, we forget that she was ever not Mrs. Ryan Sutter. They have been married for a decade and have two kids!
16.
Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas
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These two lasted about four minutes.
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Juan Pablo and Nikki Ferrell
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Juan Pablo's now-infamous non-proposal made him persona non grata for many fans, but he and winner Nikki Ferrell were together for a good six months before she finally got sick of his crap.
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Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray
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Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray split up after just six months together. Amazingly, they appeared happily together and in love just days before they called it off.
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In a dozen years on the air, The Bachelor and Bachelorette have evolved.
The bloom is off the rose, so to speak. Season after season building to a dreamy romantic conclusion, only to have the lovebirds crash and burn, will do that.
The self-parodying, melodramatic, made-for-second-screen experience has revived the show in recent years, though, keeping the ratings, and buzz, high.
Combine the fact that it's TV's ultimate guilty pleasure with the chance - albeit slim - of watching two nice people find love on a heavily edited reality show?
We can't stop watching, and we're far from alone in that department.
Still, the dating show's track record in the lasting love department is nothing to write home about. Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff notwithstanding.
The Bachelorette's Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray called it quits earlier this year, and Juan Pablo Galavis and Nikki Ferrell never stood a chance.
Couples like Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi, or Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas, were so hilariously mismatched that they shook our faith in humanity.
There are success stories too, of course. Most of them fairly recent.
The Bachelorette boasts three stars married to their final rose recipient in Season 1's Trista Rehn and recent stars Ashley Hebert and Desiree Hartsock.
Who else is still together from the franchise, and which pairs were over so fast you forgot they were even together at all (there are a bunch of those)?
Click through the gallery above to relive the memories, and for a bonus Bachelor(ette) retrospective, check out the franchise's most epic exits below:
The Bachelor & Bachelorette: 25 Most Stunning Exits
1.
DeAnna Pappas AND Jenni Croft
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The one that started it all: Brad Womack rejected Jenni Croft on his season finale, and looked poised to propose to fan favorite DeAnna Pappas ... who he ALSO rejected!
2.
Jason Mesnick
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DeAnna Pappas became The Bachelorette, and threw fans for a loop by rejecting beloved single father Jason Mesnick, who was so smitten with her, in favor of Jesse Csincsak ... who she stayed engaged to for like two weeks.
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Melissa Rycroft
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Jason Mesnick upped the ante on both Brad and DeAnna in the finale night shocker department. After getting engaged to Melissa Rycroft on his season finale, he dumped her ... on the After the Final Rose special, in favor of runner-up Molly Malaney! At least this one had a happy ending, though: Jason and Molly are happily married, and have a beautiful daughter.
4.
Reid Rosenthal
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Reid Rosenthal left The Bachelorette during the final three, then returned to propose to Jillian Harris on the finale after a change of heart ... only by then she had chosen Ed Swiderski.
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5.
Ed Swiderski
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Ed too left The Bachelorette, only to return and WIN Jillian Harris' season. His cheating ways soon caught up with him, though. She decided to List It, Not Love It ... see what we did there?!
6.
Rozlyn Papa
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In Season 14, starring Jake Pavelka, Rozlyn Papa got the boot at a rose ceremony ... after getting a rose! Say what? Yes, she allegedly had a fling with one of The Bachelor staff members.
7.
Ali Fedotowsky
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Ali Fedotowsky also left Jake's season by her own accord, after being told she'd lose her job if she did not do so. Many later felt this was BS as she signed on to star as The Bachelorette right after.
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Kasey Kahl
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Though he vowed to guard and protect her heart, Kasey Kahl got straight up ditched on a glacier by Ali in a hilarious one-on-one date denial for the ages.
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Justin Rego
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Justin Rego, a.k.a. Rated R, sure made things entertaining vying for Ali's heart ... until she busted him for having a girlfriend back home.
10.
Bentley Williams
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Who could forget Bentley, probably the biggest douchebag in the history of a franchise filled with douchebags. He got the boot from Ashley Hebert, who he was disappointed to see as the Bachelorette (he preferred Emily Maynard) and openly said was a girl he would hook up with but would never date, as she wasn't even that hot. She eventually got wind of his shadiness, and not a moment too soon.
11.
Ben Flajnik
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Ben Flajnik's stunned, bitter reaction to being rejected by Ashley Hebert after he got down on one knee was the most memorable moment of her season. He became The Bachelor; she wed winner J.P. Rosenbaum.
12.
Casey Shteamer
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Casey Shteamer got the boot from Ben Flajnik when he felt she was there for the wrong reasons, and his lack of sugar-coating her departure led to some memorable waterworks displays.
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13.
Kalon McMahon
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Kalon McMahon was straight up destroyed by an irate Emily Maynard after referring to her daughter Ricki as "baggage."
14.
Sean Lowe
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It's water under the bridge now for a happily married Sean Lowe (who wed Bachelor winner Catherine Giudici after his season), but his final three dismissal by Emily Maynard - who split from Jef Holm soon after - was a stunner.
15.
Tierra LiCausi
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Sean had to pull the plug on Tierra LiCausi, one of the franchise's all-time loose cannons.
16.
AshLee Frazier
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The one blemish on Sean Lowe's near-perfect record? At least according to a bitter AshLee Frazier, he made promises he did not keep.
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17.
Brooks Forester
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Frontrunner Brooks Forester dumped Desiree Hartsock on The Bachelorette's penultimate episode. Somewhat incredibly, a then-clear second choice Chris Siegfried ended up being The One.
18.
Sharleen Joynt
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Seen here with fellow cast member Andi Dorfman, Sharleen peaced out of this Joynt after deciding Juan Pablo Galavis wasn't "forever partner" material.
19.
Andi Dorfman
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Andi Dorfman gave Juan Pablo the business before signing on to be The Bachelorette.
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Clare Crawley
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Clare Crawley also took Juan Pablo to task after not receiving his final rose ... she certainly had the final word(s).
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21.
Eric Hill
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Eric Hill's exit from The Bachelorette was all the more shocking considering that he left on less than stellar terms with Andi Dorfman, only to tragically pass away weeks later.
22.
Nick Viall
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Nick Viall thought he had Andi Dorfman's heart all to himself. He was shocked to learn before he got to the final rose ceremony that she was cutting him loose, and didn't take it well to say the least.
23.
Arie Luyendyk Jr.
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Arie Luyendyk Jr. was eliminated by Emily Maynard on the finale of her season, but what was even more surprising was that he was reportedly told he was The Bachelor in 2015 before producers went with Chris Soules at the last minute.
24.
Britt Nilsson
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Britt Nilsson made a great first impression on Chris Soules, and was a major contender until she self-destructed late in the season ... only to be somehow named co-Bachelorette just a few weeks later. That was even more shocking.
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25.
Kaitlyn Bristowe
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Both Jade Roper and Kaitlyn Bristowe could ride unlikely, emotional eliminations by Chris Soules into a gig as The Bachelorette. Kaitlyn surprisingly got the heave-ho after an overnight date in Bali, leaving Becca Tilley and Whitney Bischoff to fight for the final rose.
The End.
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