Love after heartbreak! Katie Thurston and Blake Moynes took their relationship public through the Monday, August 9, season 17 finale of The Bachelorette after getting engaged on the present.
The couple reunited on stage through the pre-taped After the Last Rose particular, hosted by Kaitlyn Bristowe and Tayshia Adams.
Blake, 30, entered the race for Katie’s coronary heart late after beforehand competing on season 16. The pair hit it off instantly, connecting over their parallel personalities and sex-positive stances.
“I simply had this loopy, bizarre instinct and feeling that we’d hit if off as a result of we’re so related,” Blake detailed throughout After the Last Rose. “It was simply wild the way it all type of spiraled uncontrolled in one of the best ways.”
The previous financial institution advertising supervisor, 30, revealed solely to Us Weekly in June that she had interacted with the wildlife supervisor previous to filming.
“I undoubtedly knew who he was, which additionally Tayshia’s ex-boyfriend! In order that’s bizarre,” Katie defined on the time. “We had chatted earlier than, however often what occurs is, like, the fellows will attain out to the ladies as soon as they’re eradicated and be like, ‘Good luck, you probably did nice.’ Like, very generic, ? And so to see him, I used to be like, ‘Why is he right here?’ Like, ‘What’s occurring?’”
Regardless of her growing reference to Blake, Greg Grippo caught Katie’s eye first, and lots of followers thought it was sport over for the lead. Nonetheless, Kaitlyn, 36, promised in June that Katie saved “her choices open” all through filming.
Katie and Greg’s relationship hit an insurmountable roadblock through the August 2 episode when he was not happy together with her response to his declaration of affection. The 2 obtained into an unpleasant combat as she tried to reassure him that he had at all times been her “No. 1” contestant, however he needed extra from her, so he left.
The Washington native threatened to stop the present too after Greg’s exit. Nonetheless, she confirmed to Us in June that she discovered a approach to stick with it amid the drama.
“At that second, I used to be at my lowest and actually needed to go away,” she recalled. “And if it wasn’t for the superb ladies who’ve been Bachelorettes earlier than serving to me navigate that, I most likely would have. And so, I’m so grateful for all of them.”
Katie in the end moved on from Greg, 28, and targeted on her last two: Blake and Justin Glaze. Though the Canada native doubted whether or not she might get previous her heartbreak over Greg, he proposed through the finale, and she or he accepted, providing him her last rose.
“I feel everybody can agree that that is precisely who I used to be speculated to be with,” Katie famous throughout After the Last Rose. “He fought to be right here for me and selected to remain even after I’m telling him to his face that I thought-about leaving. That he was assured sufficient to carry each of us until the top, I’m simply so fortunate. I like him a lot.”
Scroll by means of the gallery beneath for every little thing we realized about Katie and Blake’s romance throughout After the Last Rose:
