US Magazine reports that longtime Bachelor couple Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado have split after enduring the longest relationship in the show's history.
The couple met on Bachelor season 6, and became engaged on the November 2004 season finale. Though no wedding date was immediately set, Byron and Mary stayed together for 5 years, through thick and thin.
In 2007, they appeared at a taping of a Bachelor: After the Final Rose special, and maintained that they were still together and planned to wed the following November.
That special aired on a Tuesday night, and Mary Delgado was arrested arrested the following morning for assaulting her fiance, hitting him in the face. Alcohol was reportedly a factor in the dispute, which resulted in a cut to Byron's upper lip. Mary was released soon after, on a misdemeanor charge.
The couple remained together until recently; Byron confirmed the split to US Magazine.
Earlier this year, Bachelor host Chris Harrison told a studio audience that Byron and Mary would be setting a wedding date soon, marking one of the show's success stories. To date, no couple that met on the set of The Bachelor has walked down the aisle, though Trista and Ryan Sutter married after meeting on spin-off show The Bachelorette in 2002, and got married on-air in 2003.
If Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney wed, they will be the first couple to do so after meeting on The Bachelor.
Do you think the mechanism of a reality dating show can result in a marriage? What do you think about Jason and Molly's odds?
Comments
She reaped what she sowed. This girl is a gold digger. I know her personally. This is what happens to gold diggers. She wanted fame and fortune and a kid. She got negative press, no fortune and no kid. Serves her right.
To Delgado, you guaranteed a TV wedding contract. You said, you were going to "get paid", one way or another. Well ???
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