Bachelor Nation Stars Who Found Best Friends on the Shows

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Bachelor Nation Stars Who Found Best Friends on the Shows

More than they bargained for! Andi Dorfman, Sean Lowe, Hannah Brown and Colton Underwood had mixed success when it comes to finding love within the Bachelor franchise, but one thing they all have in common is they met lifelong friends while appearing on the reality shows. The First Time author, for one, explained his bond with ex Becca Kufrin and her fiancé, Garrett Yrigoyen, in July 2019. “She just moved to San Diego with Garrett recently,” he told Us Weekly exclusively at the time. “I’m having some people over next week, and I invited her and Garrett over. I’m very close with both of them. They’re awesome people.” Underwood noted that the Bachelor process connects contestants on another level. “I just think it’s like a dynamic after the show that not a lot of people realize,” he said. “You just go through something unique and then, you know, Garrett and I got along great. So it’s just a friendship!” JoJo Fletcher, for her part, stayed pals with Becca Tilley — to the point that the former Bachelorette asked her bestie to be a bridesmaid in her wedding to Jordan Rodgers. “She was just in town to wedding dress shop,” Tilley revealed exclusively to Us in September 2019. [jwplayer 7VF9vPbU-zhNYySv2] The Cash Pad star then detailed her experience. “I had that moment,” she recalled. “I don’t get teary-eyed. That’s just not my personality, but I think when you try on a dress and it feels the most you, you know that’s the one.” Meanwhile, Jade Roper and Carly Waddell were pals long before they fell in love with Tanner Tolbert and Evan Bass, respectively. So, they leaned on each other when they ended up pregnant with their second children at the same time. “I called her and we had just done a podcast and we were together and I think I peed, like, four times a day,” the singer told Us exclusively in May 2019. “And I was like, ‘Why am I peeing so much since you’re not? And you’re the pregnant one.’ [Jade] was like, ‘I don’t know. I think the universe is telling you you’re pregnant.’ And I was like, ‘No way. I’m not pregnant.’” Waddell informed Roper as soon as she confirmed the news. “Then I called her and I was like, ‘Jade, I’m pregnant,’ and she was like, ‘No s--t,’” she recounted. Scroll to revisit some of the best Bachelor Nation friendships. [podcast_block]

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Andrew Spencer and Greg Grippo

The former football player confirmed via his Instagram Story in January 2022 that he and Grippo would be moving in together. “Stay tuned Feb 1st city near you,” Spencer wrote in his social media upload.

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Aaron Clancy and James Bonsall

After meeting on season 17 of The Bachelorette and a season-long bromance during season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise, Bonsall asked his best bud to leave the beach with him. Following the software salesman’s sweet invite during the October 2021 finale, Clancy quickly broke things off with Tia Booth before the friends left the beach together. They’ve since become roommates in San Diego.

“A lot has led to this point, it may not have ended how I intended, but better than I could’ve hoped with a brother for life,” Clancy captioned a tribute post via Instagram in October 2021. “Dudes as solid as the base of the great pyramid. We got each other’s six on some gang s—t. I love you all, this is only the beginning ❤️😉.”

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Andrew Spencer, Greg Grippo and Justin Glaze

The trio met while competing on Katie Thurston’s season of The Bachelorette in 2021. Although the men were part of the Washington native’s final five men — with Glaze ending as the runner-up — their friendship never wavered. The group of men reunited in New York City in August 2021 and joked about their bond. “Andrew and I met Greg Thee Stallion this weekend  ,” Glaze captioned a series of photos from the outing.

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Peter Weber and Dustin Kendrick

The pair first met while competing on Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette in 2019. Although neither received her final rose, the duo remained close and quarantined together amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. In 2021, they moved in together in New York City and launched a podcast, "Bachelors in the City."

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Hannah Ann Sluss and Madison Prewett

Sluss and Prewett met while competing for Peter Weber’s heart on season 24 of The Bachelor, which aired in 2020. After Sluss ended her engagement to Weber and Prewett broke up with him for good, the duo reunited post-show during an April 2020 Instagram Live session. At the time, they revealed how they bonded over their families while filming The Bachelor.

In July 2020, the pair reunited again for a date night in Los Angeles and baked several desserts together later in the evening.

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Andi Dorfman and Kelly Travis

Dorfman and Travis met during Juan Pablo Galavis’ season of The Bachelor in 2014. The Single State of Mind author cleared up rumors that the two are no longer friends in February 2020 via her Instagram Story, maintaining that they communicate often even if they don’t often share the status of their relationship on social media.

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Tanner Tolbert and Jared Haibon

Tolbert and Haibon appeared on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s season of The Bachelorette in 2015. They stayed in touch after the show as their wives, Roper and Ashley Iaconetti, respectively, also became pals.

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Becca Tilley and JoJo Fletcher

Tilley returned to The Bachelor for a second chance when Ben Higgins took the lead in 2016. She did not find love, but she did make a friend for life in Fletcher.

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Rachel Lindsay and Whitney Fransway

Lindsay counts Fransway, Astrid Loch, Kristina Schulman and Alexis Waters among the besties she met during Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor in 2017.

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Jade Roper and Carly Waddell

Chris Soules sent Roper and Waddell home before the final rose in 2015, but the women later launched a podcast and a jewelry line together.

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Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Sean Lowe

From best friends to Bachelors! Neither Luyendyk Jr. nor Lowe got engaged to Emily Maynard on The Bachelorette in 2012, but they supported each other as they fell for their future wives Lauren Burnham and Catherine Giudici, respectively, on The Bachelor.

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Hannah Brown and Demi Burnett

Brown and Burnett became fast friends during Underwood’s season of The Bachelor in 2019.

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Wells Adams and Ben Higgins

Adams and Higgins didn’t even appear on the same season of The Bachelorette, but that didn’t stop them from becoming close.

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Colton Underwood and Garrett Yrigoyen

There were no hard feelings between Underwood and Yrigoyen after the latter won Kufrin’s heart on The Bachelorette in 2018.