JESSE PALMER, JULIANA, GRANT ELLIS
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Bachelor Season 29 finale.
Grant Ellis is engaged! The 31-year-old day trader and former basketball player—who was introduced to Bachelor Nation on Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette—got down on one knee during the three-hour finale of The Bachelor. But are he and his fiancée still together today?
Going into the finale, Grant had two women left: Juliana Pasquarosa, 28, a client service associate from Newton, Massachusetts, and Litia Garr, 31, a venture capitalist from Salt Lake City, Utah. Both had formed strong connections with him from early on, with Grant even telling Litia he loved her during Fantasy Suites—though he later seemed to second-guess saying that.
“Maybe I should have waited a little longer. To look somebody in the eyes and say that and then see them light up, and then know in the back of your mind that I have other people I feel that for, I don’t know,” he admitted in a confessional. “How do I maneuver through this? Because I do love her, but I also am falling hard, if not very close to in love with someone else.” During Juliana’s date earlier in the episode, Grant said he was “falling in love,” but didn’t take his words as far as he did with Litia.
The finale took place in the Dominican Republic and kicked off with Grant introducing Litia and Juliana to his parents, Robert and Renee. During her visit, Litia told Renee she knew she loved Grant the moment she saw him interacting with her family. Renee told Litia that she “would make a great daughter-in-law.” Juliana’s visit, however, was met with a bit more caution. She admitted to Renee that she was still unsure whether she truly loved Grant, which seemed to make his mother nervous.
After both one-on-one dates, Juliana and Litia each told Grant that they loved him—and he reciprocated their feelings. Unfortunately for Grant, reaching a point where he felt confident choosing just one woman proved harder than he expected. “I’m hoping today, I get engaged, but I love two women — and I can only choose one,” Grant said ahead of his big decision. “I went to bed last night thinking I knew what I wanted. But I woke, and I realized I still don’t.”
Who Won The Bachelor Season 29?
JULIANA, GRANT ELLIS
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In The Bachelor Season 29 finale, Grant proposed to Juliana and she accepted.
“Through this whole journey, you’ve been someone who has inspired me,” Grant said before popping the question. “I truly believe that you are somebody who is my best friend and I’m so grateful for our journey. … I’ll be there for you as your man, as your friend, as your partner. Juliana, will you marry me?”
Juliana answered “A million times yes!”
Before proposing to Juliana, Grant had an emotional goodbye with Litia, telling her that he wasn’t the one for her. “I love you very much. I want to give you everything you deserve, but I’m not your person,” he said. “I’m sorry that it got to this point. My emotional connection is farther somewhere else.”
Are Grant Ellis and Juliana Pasquarosa Still Together?
GRANT ELLIS, JULIANA
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Yes, Grant and Juliana are still together following their engagement on The Bachelor Season 29 finale. The couple says they’re enjoying life in engagement bliss, and Grant is planning to relocate to Boston to be with his fiancée.
“I think that we are taking it one day at a time,” Grant recently told People. “Right now, we are learning each other and we’re falling more in love with each other every day.”
While marriage is the end goal, Juliana said there’s “no rush” as they focus on building a life together. “I just feel like we want to live life together for a minute,” she explained. “A wedding is a big thing, and there’s so many people we have to meet. I want them all to have an opportunity to see [Grant], see us, and just have it make sense to everybody.”
Grant continued, “We’re going to live it up. There’s going to be wine, there’s going to be family, and it’s going to be a celebration of life. When the time is right, we’re going to handle it and we’re going to talk about it, and we’re going to have a really fun wedding.”
For now, they’re focused on soaking it all in as Grant gets ready to move from Texas to Boston to be with her. “I love the dynamic that her town has and that her family has, and I want to be close to that,” he said, revealing that he will still keep a home base in Texas. “I’m going to have my house in Houston, but I’m also going to come over there and we’re going to make it work.”
JESSE PALMER, JULIANA, GRANT ELLIS
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The next step for the couple is apartment hunting. “We’ll take a peek at some apartments and see what our vibe is like and where we want to be,” added Juliana, who shared her excitement for Grant to join her once she gets “back on track” with work.
Before going public with their relationship, the couple prioritized helping their families “mesh.” “They’ve talked over the phone, over FaceTime,” she said. “We kind of did that right away when we got home because we wanted them to feel connected too.”
Most importantly, after the intense finale, the happy couple is confident they’ve found the right partner in each other.
“I feel so seen and heard and valued when I’m talking to you or around you, and I think those are the types of qualities that are so important in a relationship, and especially in a marriage,” Juliana said about Grant. “You always meet me with such compassion and love, and you really are my hype man.”
“I was looking for somebody with compassion and somebody with character, and I found that,” Grant added. “I have no doubt in my mind that she’s an amazing person, that she’s going to make an amazing wife, and I’m excited. I think we understand each other to our core.”
The Bachelor Season 29 is streaming on Hulu.
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