Greater than 5 years after Andi Dorfman handed out roses on The Bachelorette, she has accepted a proposal from Blaine Hart.
The lawyer first appeared on season 18 of The Bachelor, which aired in 2014. After she (infamously) dumped Juan Pablo Galavis in the course of the fantasy suite dates, Dorfman was named the season 10 Bachelorette. Throughout her season, she picked Josh Murray over runner-up Nick Viall.
5 months after the finale aired, Dorfman emotionally confirmed the top of their engagement in an interview with Chris Harrison in February 2015. She later accused the previous baseball participant of being emotionally abusive in her first guide, It’s Not Okay. (Murray denied the allegations on the time.)
Whereas Dorfman continued to element her romantic ventures, writing a follow-up guide, Single State of Thoughts, about courting in New York Metropolis, she stored the names of her suitors below wraps. In fall 2021, she started to tease that she was in a critical relationship.
“I’ve at all times, clearly, been form of coy with relationships having carried out the present and had that publicity and it simply being an enormous deal form of blowing up in my face, so I’ve been fairly coy about it,” Dorfman completely informed Us Weekly in February 2022, two months after she revealed Hart’s identification. “I simply met somebody that I needed everybody to find out about. It sounds cliché, however [I wanted to] shout from the rooftops. I used to be like, ‘I would like everybody to know the way glad I’m in love and I feel the response is nice as a result of I didn’t know what the response could be.’ Clearly, I haven’t brazenly talked about relationships and everybody’s been like, ‘Oh, I like seeing you so glad,’ and so I feel that’s positively made me form of need to even go deeper and share extra of it as a result of I understand persons are truly glad for me to seek out love.”
Dorfman and Hart initially met 15 years prior through a mutual pal. They reconnected in Italy throughout summer season 2021.
“I feel now we have an excellent chemistry, connection,” the industrial actual property skilled gushed to Us in February 2022. “She’s very good, additionally very humorous, retains me laughing … The record is lengthy, however the humor is on the prime.”
One month later, he proposed on the seaside in Los Angeles.
“I don’t even bear in mind what he mentioned, I simply bear in mind hugging him and crying. I didn’t even bear in mind seeing the ring at first,” she gushed to Folks in March 2022, noting that he acquired her mother and father’ permission earlier than he acquired down on one knee. “After which after, the perfect half was, he informed me as a substitute of dinner we have been going to remain the night time at Lodge Bel-Air. So we drove dwelling to pack a bag and once I opened the door to our dwelling, each of our households and my closest buddies have been there to shock me. That’s once I actually began bawling. My nephew and niece have been there and got here operating as much as us. It was lovely. And seems, Blaine had been planning with our households and my buddies for a month to get all of it organized and I had completely no clue!”
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