Jennifer Saro (27) is looking for her dream man as the successor to Sharon Battiste (31) as the new “Bachelorette” (July 12, 8:15 p.m., RTL or via RTL). Will she find the right partner among single men? So it was with their predecessors in love.
She was the first “Bachelorette”: In 2004, the then 27-year-old model Monica Ivancan (45) looked for her personal “Mr. Right” among 25 candidates. Ivancan’s choice ultimately fell on police officer Mark Quinkenstein. However, their liaison ended three weeks after the end of shooting and thus even before the show was broadcast. Later, the rose lady drew media attention again through her love life: between 2005 and 2009 she was in a relationship with comedian Oliver Pocher (45). After two failed relationships in the public eye, Ivancan has now found her private happiness: she has been with the financial entrepreneur Christian Meier since 2012, the wedding of the two followed in June 2015. Since then she has had the double name Meier-Ivancan. The couple have two children. Daughter Rosa was born in May 2013 and son Anton was born in April 2016.
For a few years, Anna Hofbauer (34) and the winner of the second “Bachelorette” season Marvin Albrecht were proof that couples can be happy together beyond the end of the dome shows. Ten years after its predecessor Ivancan, the second “Bachelorette” fell in love with the Düsseldorfer in Portugal in 2014 and gave him the last rose. After almost three years of relationship, the musical actress announced the separation in February 2017. Both candidates have now found a new love. In the fall of 2017 there were sparks between Hofbauer and the ex-“Verbotene Liebe” actor Marc Barthel (33). The couple lives together in Berlin. Their first son Leo was born in 2019, and the two married in December 2020. In 2022 their second child was born. Marvin Albrecht has been in a relationship with model Simone Voss since 2018.
In 2015, teacher Alisa Persch (34) chose fitness trainer Patrick Cuninka as a “Bachelorette” from 20 men. But the love didn’t last long. In March 2016, they announced their separation on their Instagram channels. The following year, Persch took a social media break and withdrew from the public eye. In mid-August 2020, the former “Bachelorette” surprisingly announced her engagement on Instagram. Showing herself with her partner and a ring on her finger, she wrote “Yes!
After Jessica Haller – born Paszka (33) did not work with love in 2014 on “The Bachelor”, she tried her luck in 2017 as “Bachelorette”. In Marbella, Spain, she met 20 men and ultimately chose Electric Callboy singer David Friedrich (33) in the final – and thus against second-placed Johannes Haller (35). But the relationship between the “Bachelorette” couple only lasted a few months. In September 2017, Friedrich announced the separation from Paszka on Instagram. The influencer is now in a relationship with her almost chosen Johannes Haller – and is now even married. After secretly photographed kissing photos of the two in Ibiza, the couple confirmed their relationship in early October 2020. In mid-December 2020, Paszka announced her pregnancy. A few weeks later, she also posted her engagement ring. On May 6, 2021, the two announced the birth of their daughter. In December 2021 the wedding bells rang.
Also in 2018, a former “Bachelor” candidate was allowed to look for love on TV as “Bachelorette”: Nadine Klein (37) failed earlier in the same year when Daniel Völz (38) sent her home in the fifth episode. For this she awarded the roses herself in the fifth season of “Bachelorette”. Your last received personal trainer Alexander Hindersmann (34). They announced their split in November 2018. In May 2019, Klein made it public on Instagram that there was a new man by her side. Like Klein, her boyfriend Tim is also from Berlin. In September 2021, the couple said yes. The two mostly keep their love out of the public eye. Alexander Hindersmann is now in a relationship with sports presenter Laura Papendick (34), the two recently became parents.
Influencer and former “GNTM” candidate Gerda Lewis (30) became the sixth “Bachelorette”. In 2019 she was looking for her dream man in RTL format, project engineer Keno Rüst received the last rose of the model. Almost six weeks after the final broadcast in September, the “Bachelorette” and the East Frisian went their separate ways again. At the turn of the year 2020, she announced her relationship with Melvin Pelzer with a kissing photo. After moving in together a short time later, the couple announced their split in July. Although Lewis admitted that ex-boyfriend Rüst played a role in the separation, there was no love comeback between the “Bachelorette” couple. On Valentine’s Day 2022, Rüst showed himself with a new partner at his side.
Like Paszka and Klein, Melissa Damilia (27) brought dating show experience with her in 2020, but not as a former “Bachelor” candidate. Damilia was part of the RTLzwei dome show “Love Island” in 2019. But it wasn’t supposed to work out with love and so she went in search of love as “Bachelorette”. She celebrated her happy ending with winner Leander Sacher (25). In March 2022, she announced her separation from the entrepreneur. “I’m a happy single,” she announced in an interview with RTL.
After participating in “Bachelor” Daniel Völz 2018 and the failed relationship with David Friedrich 2021, Maxime Herbord was looking for love in 2021 as “Bachelorette”. Her choice among the 20 single men ultimately fell on the Austrian Raphael Fasching (25). But the relationship was not under a lucky star – after the final, Herbord spoke about getting to know each other again. In October 2021, Fasching announced via Instagram that he and the “Bachelorette” would go their separate ways in the future. In the meantime, the ex-“Bachelorette” has found her love happiness elsewhere. There were sparks between ex-“Bachelorette” winner Leander Sacher and Herbord. In December 2022, she confirmed her love for Sacher on Instagram.
In June 2022, Sharon Battiste (30) was looking for her dream man as “Bachelorette”. Winner Jan Hoffmann, who also got the first kiss of the season, is still at the side of the ex-“Let’s Dance” candidate. Since the finale, the couple has been happy with each other and also regularly shares this happiness on social media. What she particularly appreciates about her partner is that he is “always there for me – my biggest supporter on good days and my support on bad days,” Battiste explained in an interview with spot on news in early July. Family planning with Hoffmann does not exclude the ex-“Bachelorette”. “Anything imaginable, but we still have time, now let’s move in together.”
