Chris Harrison has dubbed Dean Unglert and Caelynn Miller-Keyes a Bachelor success story, but their relationship got off to a rocky start.
Unglert returned to Bachelor in Paradise for season 6 during the summer of 2019 after he found himself in the middle of a messy love triangle on season 5. During his second stint on the beach, he met Miller-Keyes, who was the one wrapped up in that summer’s drama.
“A long time ago, when we first started dating, there were things where I was, like, disappointed about or just upset to hear, you know what I mean, about Caelynn’s dating history,” Unglert admitted to the former Miss North Carolina on his “Help! I Suck at Dating” podcast in November 2020. “And I was like, ‘Well, dude, if you were to flip it around and put me in the same position that I’m putting her in, I would look 20 times worse.’ So I’m not gonna sit here and be a hypocrite and be upset about something that she might or might not have done while I have done the same thing, if not worse, 10 times over.”
During season 6 of BiP, fans learned Miller-Keyes hooked up with Blake Horstmann at Stagecoach before filming began. She called him out on the show, revealing he slept with her and their costar Kristina Schulman at the music festival. Horstmann subsequently tried to clear his name by sharing his texts with Miller-Keyes.
Unglert publicly defended Miller-Keyes when the show was airing.
“I don’t think that you should ever really hold your significant other accountable for the things that they did before they knew the person that they’re dating,” he said on the podcast. “You could spend time thinking about it and dwelling on it, but you’re just gonna make yourself angry for literally no reason at all because it’s like, what are you supposed to do about someone doing things before they ever possibly knew you?”
Miller-Keyes agreed, “It’s like, ‘That was before me, I don’t care, I don’t need to know’ kind of thing.”
After a messy summer, Unglert and Miller-Keyes left the beach together. It hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing for the pair, however.
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Unglert and Miller-Keyes hit it off when he joined during week 2 of Bachelor in Paradise season 6.
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A few episodes in to BiP, Unglert left the beach, leaving Miller-Keyes heartbroken on her birthday.
“Our lifestyles are not going to be compatible coming out of this. And I don’t want to give you something that isn’t going to make you happy,” he told her on the show. “I just think that you deserve someone better than me, to be perfectly honest.”
The Bachelorette season 13 alum returned during week 5 to ask Miller-Keyes to leave the beach with him. While she went on a date with Connor Saeli after Unglert’s exit, the former pageant queen picked Unglert.
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Unglert and Miller-Keyes proved skeptics wrong as she embraced his lifestyle of living in a van.
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A month after Miller-Keyes told Us Weekly that marriage could be in their future, Unglert told Us in December 2019 that he never wants to tie the knot.
“She does joke around about us getting married all the time, and I always say, ‘Sorry, it’s not going to happen,’” he told Us. “I don’t know, I’m super unconventional and she obviously is a little more conventional. We joke around about it. Just try to keep expectations to a minimum, you know? Like I said on the show, underpromise, overdeliver.”
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Not long after Unglert’s quotes about marriage made headlines, he was spotted wearing a band. The couple’s friends Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon told Us at the time that they didn’t even know whether the pair had secretly wed.
“Dean had the reputation of being the F boy and not wanting to be in a committed relationship. And maybe some of that was a little bit true, which Dean has expressed many, many times,” Haibon told Us in April 2020. “He cares about Caelynn so much. And I think the ring is symbolic … Saying, ‘Hey, you know, I know I have a pass, but I’m here for you. I want to be with you. And that’s why I’m wearing the ring because I want to show you that. I only want to be with you. I don’t even want I don’t want to just say I want to show you.’”
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Unglert and Miller-Keyes celebrated one year — and the anniversary of him dumping her on her birthday — in June 2020. Later that month, they finally revealed the truth behind their decision to wear jewelry on their respective ring fingers.
“I’m committed to Caelynn and only Caelynn. And that’s why I’ve been wearing it for the past six or so months,” he said on an episode of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! “It’s our way of telling the world or the people that we’re around that we’re committed to each other. I think it’s one of those comforting thing where you can wake up in the morning and see your partner wearing that ring and be like, ‘OK, yes, they know that I’m committed to them and vice versa.”
Miller-Keyes added, “He started wearing a hair tie around his ring finger, just to fight women off. … And I liked the idea. And then we just talked about getting rings. It’s just nice to know that we’re in a strong, committed relationship without necessarily having to get the government involved, as Dean likes to say.”
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“It’s always kind of tricky coming out of the show right away because you're agreeing to date someone that you don't really know that well. And so for the first month or two or three, even we're like still learning a lot about each other and still figuring out if it's actually going to be a relationship that works,” Unglert told Us in August 2020. “But once you kind of get past that initial, like, difficult hump, everything got really, really good for us. And I mean obviously, with quarantine and everything, it's been challenging as well. Like everyone has their own challenges with quarantine. … It's a nice test to see that the relationship is as real as you thought it was.”
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The reality stars took their relationship to another level when they moved into their brand new Las Vegas house in April 2021.
“We are officially homeowners!!! 🏠,” Miller-Keyes wrote at the time, sharing photos of the couple embracing in their kitchen.
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