The cast of "The Ultimatum" raised a glass at the season one reunion.of The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On: Season 1. Cr. Adam Rose/Netflix © 2022
Hunter Parr was the first contestant to propose to his partner Alexis Maloney in episode three of "The Ultimatum" season one.
Alexis had given Hunter the ultimatum, but he wasn't sure if he was ready to get married until the end of the first week of filming the reality series.
During the reunion, the pair were still together and they made it down the aisle last year.
In June 2022, People reported that the couple got married at Wayfarers Chapel and Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes, California.
Alexis told People at the time: "Personally, I am so happy that we didn't go through the rest of the show. You could see that I came in wanting to marry Hunter from day one. It was really a struggle for me when I wasn't able to connect with anyone else, but it reconfirmed the love that I had for Hunter. I want to be with him. And I'm very happy that we got engaged, and we got to then live our life."
She added: "Ultimately, I wanted Hunter to be 100% sure and make sure that I was the one he really wanted. And it was so reassuring to see that after a week of going on dates, he [knew] he [wanted] to be with me."
According to their social media, the married couple are still together and recently moved to a new home.
Fans were shocked when Madlyn Ballatori and Colby Kissinger not only agreed to get engaged but also agreed to marry at the end of "The Ultimatum" process.
In the series, the pair's relationship was rocky, and just before the proposal day, the couple got into an argument over Colby kissing a woman from outside the experiment during the process.
Fans were even more shocked when Madlyn was pregnant when she arrived at the reunion.
After the process, Madlyn explained on "The Viall Files" podcast that she was asked by producers to discuss "positive" and "negative things" about Colby, and she wished she'd praised him more.
Madlyn said she didn't "speak as kindly and openly as about Colby as I feel like he did about me."
"It was awesome going back and just seeing how he just speaks his love and adoration for me all the time. And, like, that's something that I think I was embarrassed to do," she added.
Madlyn also addressed the scandal from episode eight on the podcast, saying that she understood why Colby kissed another woman but was mad he did not tell her earlier.
The couple are still married and are actually expecting their second baby, after their first child Josephine Riley was born last year.
In "The Ultimatum" episode nine, Randall Griffin decided to propose to his longtime girlfriend Shanique Imari, and she said yes. However, in the reunion episode, they revealed that they had broken up six months after the proposal. They got back together before the reunion but were no longer engaged.
However, Randall told Women's Health last year that the couple were planning to move in together after the show came out.
"We move in, in May. We just got the keys," Randall said.
Shanique added: "It's been a fun process just kind of putting our minds together and our tastes and our likes and dislikes and just working through it."
Nate Ruggles and Lauren Pounds came on the show due to one main disagreement — Nate wanted multiple children and Lauren did not want any.
However, in episode three, Nate followed in Hunter's footsteps and proposed to his partner Lauren before they got to the trial marriage stage.
The couple's costars criticized the proposal at the time since the pair had not solved their issue surrounding children.
In the reunion episode, Lauren said that they had worked on their relationship off-camera and agreed on one child.
The pair did eventually get married in October 2022 and are still together.
Since leaving the process both Lauren and Nate have been critical of the way the show presented their relationship.
Lauren wrote in the caption of an Instagram post last year: "You know that you've found the one when you walk through a dumpster fire together and come out stronger than before. The fake/edited version of us that was shown on The Ultimatum won't sit well with everyone, and we're slowly learning to be okay with that."
"We left early because we quickly realized how toxic the experience was, so we got punished for going against the grain. Lesson learned! So, if anyone has a problem with us doing what was best for our relationship, please project your misery elsewhere, not on our pages," she added.
Lauren added in the caption that Nate re-proposed with an actual ring six weeks after filming the show.
The couple also said during an episode of the "Your Poor Dad" podcast last year that Nate never issued actually issued an ultimatum, per the show's format, but a producer made it seem that way.
Nate said: "One of the first questions I get is 'Nathan, so tell us why you issued the ultimatum?' and I'm like, 'Tell you why I did what? What did I do?' I didn't know. I was like, 'Wait I issued...' They're like, 'Yeah, you issued the ultimatum.'"
Lauren and Nate added that they were uncomfortable with the trial marriage process, which they said they were only told about during filming, and they didn't want to live with Colby and April Marie, who they were likely to be paired with.
"It was just getting more and more like, 'Hey, what the hell did we get into,'" Nate said. "Now we're also basically being paired up with, each of us, the person that we didn't want to be paired up with."
April Marie Melohn had a difficult time on "The Ultimatum" season one.
She was the one to give the ultimatum to her partner, Jake Cunnigham, because she wanted to be a mother. However, at the end of the show, Jake still didn't want to marry April and they broke up.
By the time the reunion was filmed, April was in another serious relationship, which she talked about more on her Instagram page. She had been dating realtor Cody Cooper for months and the couple is still going strong.
In fact, in February, April revealed that they were expecting their first baby.
Despite Jake leaving with Rae Williams, it was revealed in the reunion episode that their relationship did not lead anywhere.
Since the series, Jake has not posted about any new relationships on Instagram and TikTok, which could mean he's still single.
However, apart from Instagram story posts, Jake has not regularly shared posts on the platform since last year August.
Rae and her first partner Zay Wilson broke up before the end of the show. However, during the reunion, Zay and Rae said they tried dating again after the show had finished filming but it didn't work out.
Rae also came out as bisexual in the reunion, and revealed that she was dating a woman.
It is unclear whether Rae is still dating the same person, but she recently made it clear on TikTok that she likes to keep her relationships private.
After leaving "The Ultimatum" single, Zay went on to appear on another dating show, "The Perfect Match."
Rae claimed in a "Perfect Match" recap YouTube video, published by Zachary Reality, that Zay was approached for the new reality series right after filming "The Ultimatum."
This series brought together cast members from different Netflix dating shows to see if they could find their perfect match.
Unfortunately, Zay was unable to match with a partner and left the show single. He still appears to be single after the show aired on Netflix earlier this year.
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