A final rose do-over? Bachelorette fans have been rooting for Becca Kufrin and Blake Horstmann to reunite ever since her split from Garrett Yrigoyen — and they are giving Bachelor Nation a taste of what they want!
Horstmann was the runner-up on Kufrin’s season 14 of The Bachelorette, which aired in 2018. After she broke up with him, the Minnesota native accepted a proposal from Yrigoyen.
“I was right there with you. I was. I never want you to doubt yourself,” she told an emotional Horstmann during the finale. “I know what it feels like to feel this way, and I know the feeling where you question everything, and how could you be wrong, and you weren’t wrong. You weren’t.”
Years later, the DJ admitted on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast that it took him a beat to get over Kufrin.
“The closure, if you will, for me, was After the Final Rose,” he recalled in March 2021. “But it wasn’t necessarily when I saw Becca or I talked to Becca. It was when I saw Garrett and Becca together on that couch. It was like a door closed for me. I was like, ‘OK, like, they’re happy, they’re together still, you know, it’s over for me and closing the door and I’m gonna move on.’ And so that was kind of the moment for me. Not when I talked to Becca, but it was when I saw them all happy on that couch. That’s what changed for me.”
Kufrin and Yrigoyen split during the summer of 2020 after more than two years together.
“After many conversations, we came to this decision. It wasn’t something that we just arrived at one night. It wasn’t based solely off of one Instagram post or somebody else’s opinions or comments,” she said on her “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast in September 2020, referring to the former couple’s disagreements over police support amid the Black Lives Matter movement. “There’s much more to it. To any relationship, there’s a lot of layers, and it’s not for me to divulge details.”
Horstmann, for his part, appeared on season 6 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2019.
“It’s easy to fall from the peak than it is in the middle,” he told Us about going from fan-favorite to “villain” on the Mexico spinoff. “I think I was an easy target, you know, and I did I make mistakes? Yeah, to a degree, but I was always honest with those women and everything, and I think, you know, people saw a chance to kind of take advantage of me in that whole situation. It was hard to watch and it hurt.”
In addition to sending each other birthday love following her split from Yrigoyen, Kufrin and Horstmann made waves on social media in May 2021 when she jokingly gave him a rose during a night out with Bachelor alums.
“That’s what I wanted you to do just once when we were actually filming!” he said before she handed him the flower.
As speculation about their relationship continues, scroll through for everything Kufrin and Horstmann have said about their post-show relationship:
“Me and Becca are friends,” he wrote during an Instagram Q&A in November 2020. “Let the woman be single for a while she don’t need no damn man to be happy. She is living her best life.”
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"I think the show bonds you in such a weird way that we were able to … get through the really hard breakup part to be like, 'You know, we both have our separate experiences from the show,’” Kufrin said on the “Off the Vine” podcast in December 2020. “But I have such a soft spot in my heart for Blake … Him and I were like the same person. He was just the male version of Becca. Our interests, everything, were so similar that for a while it freaked me out. But now I feel like we kind of handle things and process things the same way that we just kind of get each other in that weird way."
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“I slid into Blake’s DMs,” Kufrin joked on Horstmann’s “Behind the Rose” podcast about how they reconnected when she was on tour with Ben Higgins for The Bachelor — Live on Stage.
“I think I was on tour when you were coming. I think I had reached out [at that] point, and I was like, ‘Hey I know you’re coming,’” she recalled.
Horstmann added, “You know the one DM I remember. When we first started talking, I posted, ‘cornhole or bags?' … That’s when we started talking again.”
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“Blake and I are very similar in the way that we process things and handle things,” Kufrin told Horstmann on his podcast. “You form really weird, strong bonds with people on the show. That didn’t just go away overnight. It wasn’t like we ended things or I ended things, and it was like, ‘OK, f—k him, bye!’ … So it’s not like a light switch where you turn it on and off, and you’re like, ‘I don’t care about that person.’ Everything happens for a reason, but I still try to have empathy and care and remember I really felt that way about a person for a reason and remember the good reasons of ‘why.'”
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“HBD @balockaye.h!” she captioned a throwback in April 2021 via Instagram. “To celebrate, I’d like to share an embarrassing photo of when we were babies. At this moment I’m virtually shoving your face in a cake.”
He reposted the pic and added, “Look at us babies.”
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During an interview on the "Reality Life With Kate Casey" podcast, Horstmann said the pair spoke a bit in the last six months but then she went on Bachelor in Paradise. He noted that her ties to Bachelor Nation could also stand in the way if they did reunite romantically.
"I would be willing to talk, of course. But we'll see how Paradise works out because she's going to Paradise. And I don't know, that show can change you and those producers get a hold of you," he said at the time. "The show doesn't like me, the show doesn't want to see us together. She has, like, the ABC podcast. That's kind of her thing. She is very much involved in that show. We'll see."
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"Blake and I have always been friends. We've always been supportive of one another," the publicist said on an episode of the "Click Bait" podcast after Horstmann's comments about their relationship raised eyebrows. "In terms of the 'talking,' yeah, we've been in touch very sporadically, but nothing that I would say would warrant ... a potential relationship."
Kufrin also addressed her former flame's claims that producers were somehow involved in their friendship, adding, "At the end of the day, like, we're two grown adults that make our own decisions. If we're not together, then ... it's because we chose not to be together. It can't be put on anyone else."
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