What occurs in between seasons of The Bachelor/Bachelorette by no means stays a secret for lengthy due to Bachelor in Paradise.
It’s uncommon for a season of the seashore spinoff to not embrace offscreen drama and season 7 isn’t any completely different. In the course of the second week of BiP, Brendan Morais got here below fireplace for his relationship with Pieper James.
Bachelor Nation met Brendan throughout season 16 of The Bachelorette, which aired within the fall of 2020. He finally broke up with Tayshia Adams after the day portion of their fantasy suite date included taking a look at engagement rings.
“It freaked him out a little bit bit. He does desire a spouse and he desires children, however the entire course of took him without warning, and he didn’t understand how shortly he was being requested to get down on one knee. It simply wasn’t one thing he was prepared for in the long run. It was so much for him to absorb. Marriage is one thing he doesn’t take evenly,” a supply instructed Us in December 2020, noting that he’s been married earlier than. “He was being tremendous trustworthy to Tayshia about how he wasn’t prepared for marriage and the way he was nonetheless damaged over his final marriage — that’s not one thing he would lie about. He was actually younger when he first acquired married. His divorce was one thing he took very significantly.”
Pieper, for her half, appeared on Matt James’ season of The Bachelor in early 2021. She was eradicated earlier than hometown dates.
The ABC stars subsequently linked through the spring of 2021. That June, Us Weekly completely confirmed their relationship wasn’t strictly platonic.
“They each are tremendous into one another and are attending to know one another and are simply having enjoyable happening dates,” a supply mentioned on the time.
That very same month, Brendan left to movie Bachelor in Paradise — and primarily based on the trailer, Pieper seems to reach in a crimson swimsuit in a while within the season.
In the course of the August 23 episode, Demi Burnett questioned Brendan’s relationship with Pieper after he instructed her he needed to maintain his choices open following their date.
“Pieper and I, we’ve frolicked. We spent a while collectively, we’ve communicated, we’ve loved one another’s firm and that’s that,” he mentioned on the present. “There’s no relationship.”
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