Bachelor in Paradise Winners 2023: Who Got Engaged & Ended Up Together in the Finale?
While there are no official winners on BIP, we can all agree that the unofficial Bachelor in Paradise winners are the couples who get engaged and end up together at the end of their multiple-week vacation in Mexico.
Bachelor in Paradise is a spinoff of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. The Bachelor franchise premiered on ABC in March 2002 with businessman Alex Michel as the first Bachelor. The show has since aired for more than 27 seasons and produced several spin-offs including The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor Pad, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart, and The Bachelor Winter Games.
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Bachelor in Paradise premiered in August 2014 as a reality TV dating series featuring former contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. The show starts with an uneven number of women and men from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Each week, there’s a Rose Ceremony where either the men or women give roses to the contestants they feel the strongest connection to. The contestants who don’t receive a rose are sent home.
The next week, the roles are reversed, and the gender that didn’t give out roses the previous week now chooses who to give a rose to and who to send home. Each week, more contestants from past seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette join the show to create an uneven number between the women and men and force the contestants already there to either couple up with someone new or stay in their current relationship. Contestants are also given date cards at random to choose contestants they want to spend alone time with. Many new contestants join the show with a date card.
At the end of Bachelor in Paradise, the contestants are offered an opportunity to have an overnight date with no cameras or microphones (much like Fantasy Suites on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.) After the overnight dates is the finale, where contestants either choose to break up or get engaged. Like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise also has an “After the Final Rose” special, where contestants reunite to hash out drama and update viewers on their relationship.
But back to the Bachelor in Paradise winners for 2023. So who ended up together in the Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 finale and who broke up? Read on for the Bachelor in Paradise 2023 winners and which BIP Season 9 couples got engaged and are still together now.
1. Who are the Bachelor in Paradise winners for Season 9?
Read on for the Bachelor in Paradise winners for Season 9 and which BIP 2023 couples got engaged and ended up together in the finale.
2. Kylee Russell & Aven Jones
Relationship status: Dating
Kylee Russell (The Bachelor Season 27) and Aven Jones Jones (The Bachelorette Season 19) were one of three couples who ended up together from Bachelor in Paradise Season 9, according to Reality Steve.
According to Reality Steve, Kylee and Aven left Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 in a relationship, but didn’t get engaged. Reality Steve also confirmed that Aven and Kylee were still together as of August 2023, according to Instagram Stories of them both in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Kylee is from.
Kylee is a 26-year-old Postpartum Nurse from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was a contestant on The Bachelor Season 27 with Zach Shallcross, where she went home in Week 5. Aven is a 29-year-old Sales Executive from Salem, Massachusetts. He was a contestant on The Bachelorette Season 19 with Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia, where he was Rachel’s runner-up.
3. Kat Izzo & John Henry Spurlock
Relationship status: Engaged
Kat Izzo (The Bachelor Season 27) and John Henry Spurlock (The Bachelorette Season 20) were one of three couples who ended up together from Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 and one of two couples who got engaged, according to Reality Steve.
Kat and John Henry got engaged at the Final Rose Ceremony in the Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 finale, where John Henry proposed to her. In July 2023, Reality Steve tweeted a video of Kat and John Henry at the restaurant Rudee’s on the Inlet in Virginia Beach, where John Henry is from, after Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 finished filming. “Kat and John Henry are absolutely together, and I’m pretty sure they got engaged at the end of BIP filming. Here is a video of them last Sat night July 8th at Rudee’s in Virginia Beach. Onlookers said they were holding hands and were an obvious couple,” he wrote at the time.
Kat is a 27-year-old Registered Nurse from Tampa, Florida. She was a contestant on The Bachelor Season 27 with Zach Shallcross, where she went home in Week 7. John Henry is a 31-year-old Underwater Welder from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a contestant on The Bachelorette Season 20 with Charity Lawson, where he went home in Week 2.
4. Aaron Bryant & Eliza Isichei
Relationship status: Engaged
Aaron Bryant (The Bachelorette Season 20) and Eliza Isichei (The Bachelor Season 26) were one of three couples who ended up together from Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 and one of two couples who got engaged, according to Reality Steve.
Aaron B. and Eliza got engaged at the Final Rose Ceremony in the Bachelor in Paradise Season 9 finale, where Aaron B. proposed to her. In July 2023, Reality Steve tweeted a video of Aaron B. and Eliza in the lobby of the Vidanta Resort in Vallarta Nayarit, where Bachelor in Paradise films, confirming they ended up together. “This was was taken a few days after filming ended in the Vidanta lobby & posted on an IG story that was sent to me. This is Eliza and Aaron B… Eliza has been back in Germany since filming. But clearly they ended the show together,” Reality Steve tweeted at the time.
Aaron B. is a 30-year-old Software Salesman from Katy, Texas. He was a contestant on The Bachelorette Season 20 with Charity Lawson, where he came in third place. Eliza Isichei is a 27-year-old Marketing Manager from Tampa, Florida. She was a contestant on The Bachelor Season 26 with Clayton Echard and Bachelor in Paradise Season 8. She went home in Week 6 on The Bachelor Season 26 and Week 5 on Bachelor in Paradise Season 8.
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