Warning: The Bachelor Season 29 spoilers forward. After months of ups and downs, Grant’s Bachelor finale is nearly right here. However in what may very well be essentially the most stunning twist but (cue Chris Harrison), followers are satisfied that Grant continues to be single and has damaged up along with his winner earlier than his season even completed airing.

Grant Ellis, a 31-year-old Day Dealer from Newark, New Jersey from Newark, New Jersey, is the lead of The Bachelor Season 29. He was initially a contestant on The Bachelorette Season 21 with Jenn Tran, the place he was despatched residence in Week 7. Grant was introduced as the following Bachelor on Good Morning America in August 2024, which made him the second Black Bachelor and sixth Black lead in Bachelor Nation historical past. 

In an interview with Bustle forward of his Bachelor season’s premiere, Grant teased that the feelings that got here with him relationship a number of girls all through his season was a “theme” on Season 29, however not essentially for his winner. “One theme of the season is that the ladies knew how nice they had been. Everyone in the home acquired alongside. Everybody was sensible, witty, and delightful. They knew relationship a number of folks wasn’t regular, and it will be a tough choice for me,” he stated. “Reassurance comes with time, and it’s important to show that to any individual by way of affection and displaying them that you simply’re interested by them. So I don’t assume it’ll be a problem, however whether it is, it is going to heal over time.”

Was Grant’s interview a touch for what was to return in his relationship? Learn on for why Bachelor Nation followers are satisfied that Grant continues to be single from The Bachelor Season 29 and was dumped by his winner after filming ended.

Is Grant nonetheless single from The Bachelor Season 29?

Whereas followers gained’t know whether or not Grant continues to be single till The Bachelor Season 29 finale airs on March 24, 2025, followers are satisfied that his winner broke up with him after his somber look throughout “The Girls Inform All” particular. “Grant did NOT look comfortable,” a person wrote on Reddit after the episode. “I don’t know that I’d think about this a spoiler as a result of I’m not spoiled on the ending however I’ve to say, Grant didn’t look comfortable on the WTA when Jesse was speaking concerning the ending of the season/Grant’s ‘journey”‘ Y’all assume he has an excellent poker face or that his decide and him have already ended issues?”

One other person wrote, “Omg, he regarded depressing! Both he was purposefully attempting to look depressing and I can’t think about why or he actually was. And he didn’t look wholesome both, darkish circles underneath the eyes, washed out. Makes me truly not need to watch the way it seems whether it is actually going to be heartbreaking.”

Yet another person commented, “I feel Grant isn’t comfortable that they’re modifying it to make it seem like he was extra torn than he was. He was interviewed not too long ago and he stated it wasn’t like that. I feel he was extra fearful about breaking the guts of the one he was not choosing.”

The third person could also be appropriate. Based on Actuality Steve, Grant’s winner is Juliana Pasquarosa, a 28-year-old Consumer Service Affiliate from Newton, Massachusetts. His runner-up was Litia Garr, a 31-year-old Enterprise Capitalist from Star Valley, Wyoming. Per Actuality Steve, Grant gave his remaining rose and proposed to Juliana on the Last Rose Ceremony in The Bachelor Season 29 finale and the 2 acquired engaged.

Followers grew to become satisfied that there was drama between Grant and Juliana after Grant gave an interview to Us Weekly in March 2025 that he knew who he wished to choose as his winner by Hometown Dates, which went in opposition to how The Bachelor and host Jesse Palmer have been teasing his finale, with Jesse claiming throughout “The Girls Inform All” that no lead has been as torn in a finale as Grant.

“I, truthfully, was 100% certain as a result of that’s what I got here there for. I knew I used to be going to make issues work,” Grant advised Us Weekly. He additionally referred to as out The Bachelor‘s modifying within the promo for his finale, which made it look like he didn’t make his choice for who he wished to provide his remaining rose to till the final minute. “[It] undoubtedly wasn’t [down to] one hour,” he stated, explaining that the second of indecision seen within the trailer was as a result of “exterior components” and never essentially wavering emotions for his winner. “I’ve all the time been a very decisive individual when it comes to my profession and every part in that discipline. … In highschool, I used to be a star athlete and needed to resolve what faculty I went to, what main,” he stated.

Grant’s interview got here after Jesse advised Us Weekly in January 2025 that Grant didn’t know who he wished to decide on as his winner till proper earlier than the Last Rose Ceremony occurred. “It’s actual,” Jesse stated of his second of indecision within the trailer. “And I don’t know in case you may inform from watching that from my response, [but] I used to be stunned. That was one thing that I haven’t encountered but because the host within the final 4 years on any of the franchises. Usually, I feel, our leads have just a little bit extra readability — much more readability — heading into the ultimate day. And I actually assume that’s how conflicted Grant actually was.”

He continued, “They’re phenomenal yearly for whoever our lead is [and] making that call on the ultimate day is all the time a really, very troublesome choice, however I can admire a few of why Grant was so conflicted. I’ll simply say that. However completely with out making a gift of an excessive amount of, that was genuine and it’s actual and it’s not an edit.”

Ever since Grant’s interview, followers have been satisfied that Grant wished to decide on Litia, who’s Mormon, however determined in opposition to it as a result of their variations in faith and tradition. “It’s clear he actually like Litia however the Mormon/faith factor is stopping him from going all in. We’ll see the way it performs out,” a person wrote on Reddit. Followers additionally speculate that the narrative that Grant was so shut to selecting Litia could have affected his present relationship with Juliana.

It’s not unusual for Bachelor or Bachelorette winners to really feel damage after studying how shut a lead’s choice was between them and another person. In an interview with Folks in 2017, Lauren Bushnell, who gained The Bachelor Season 20 with Ben Higgins, opened up concerning the “damage” she felt watching the finale and seeing her now-ex-fiance Ben profess his love for his runner-up earlier than Lauren and Ben’s engagement. “I don’t assume I’ve ever talked about how hurtful that was,” Lauren stated. “I all the time attempt to be actually robust as a result of I wished to maneuver ahead from it. However as a result of I wished to maneuver ahead from it, I don’t assume I ever actually opened up about how exhausting that was simply when it comes to, like, I wished to make that call to get engaged one time in my life and I felt like I wasn’t advised every part that had occurred.”

Lauren additionally confessed that what occurred within the finale continued to have an effect on her and Ben’s relationship for months to return. The 2 later break up in Could 2017. “When The Bachelor aired, reliving that months later wasn’t very best both,” she stated. “I used to be nonetheless like, ‘We’re going to maneuver ahead from this,’ however then the press, that’s what all people wished to speak about. I’ve by no means shared with anybody, apart from Ben, how hurtful that state of affairs was and the way exhausting it’s to repeatedly speak about it time and again once you’re attempting to begin a life with somebody.”

She continued, “Trying again, I want I may very well be like, ‘That’s why it didn’t work out,’ however I feel it was only a very irregular state of affairs and one which sadly. I imply we tried.”

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