Former Bachelor Jake Pavelka is engaged!
The season 14 Bachelor48, is about to wed his girlfriend of two years, Aimeehe revealed to Folks in an interview printed on Saturday, February 14.
Jake and Aimee matched on courting app Bumble in January 2024. Jake popped the query to Aimee at their residence in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 2025, he mentioned.
“We went and had an excellent dinner and laughed and had champagne,” Jake informed Folks. “Then we took an Uber again to our house. I had rose petals on the bottom and a desk arrange with candles. We walked within the house and he or she was like, ‘What’s occurring right here? Did any individual break into our house?’ She was a desk attempting to determine how a candle bought lit.”
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“When she rotated, I used to be down on one knee with a extremely fairly ring, and I requested her to marry me,” Jake mentioned. “She sort of gasped after which muttered sure. It was candy and intimate. I positively made the precise selection retaining it personal. It was a extremely particular second.”
Jake admitted to having some frayed nerves earlier than he proposed to Aimee.
“We dwell in a high-rise in Dallas, so on the best way to dinner, I walked Aimee to the elevator after which I mentioned, ‘Oh, my gosh, I forgot one thing. I bought to run again to the house actual fast,’” the previous actuality star mentioned. “I frantically ripped a bag of rose petals open, I pulled the desk away from the wall and set a battery-operated candle on there. I sprinkled the roses in all places and adorned actual fast, bought again to the elevator and he or she was like, ‘What did you neglect?’ I used to be like, ‘I wanted to get a drink of water.’ I couldn’t even consider a superb lie.”
The previous pilot beforehand gushed about assembly Aimee on Bumble in an October 2024 interview on the “Ben and Ashley I Nearly Well-known” podcast.
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“We matched in, like, the quarter-hour I turned it on,” he mentioned of swiping proper after a flight from his Dallas residence base to Santa Barbara, California. “I mentioned, ‘I’m not in search of a long-distance relationship’ and he or she mentioned one thing sort of enjoyable, like, ‘Properly, you couldn’t deal with it anyway.’ I used to be like, ‘Oh, OK.’ That is in all probability the woman. She’s so great.”
Jake first appeared on screens throughout Jillian Harris’ season of The Bachelorette in 2009. He was the star of The Bachelor season 14 the next yr. Jake proposed to Vienna Girardi within the season finale, which aired in March 2010, nonetheless, the couple went their separate methods by June that very same yr.
The exes had a tense showdown throughout a July 2010 episode of The Bachelorette as then-host Chris Harrison sat down with the pair to debate what went mistaken.
“Once we had been at residence (it was) lonely,” Girardi mentioned on the time. “I simply wished him to be round me and discuss to me and kiss me like a traditional relationship. My impression was that you just had been a pilot and we’d return to Dallas and dwell a traditional life. Hastily, you had been in LA and also you had been pursuing an performing profession.”