After two seasons of The Bachelorette and his own season of The Bachelor, Nick Viall has found love with Natalie Joy.
The couple were first linked by fans in 2019, but speculation about their relationship didn’t start heating up until 2020. Shortly after the pair first went public, Viall admitted in February 2021 that they met after Joy slid into his Instagram DMs.
“It was very romantic,” he joked during an episode of his podcast. “We kind of kept hanging out, and she finally got to a point where she was like, ‘I want to date,’ and I was kind of like, ‘I don’t know.’ … She just was like, ‘OK, this is what I want. It’s fine, no big deal, but I’m gonna go do my thing,’ and she did, and I was like, ‘What?!’ … She went and showed me exactly what I’d be missing.”
A source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time that the pair’s relationship is “very real,” adding, “They’re pretty much inseparable. You can say she practically lives with him because she’s at his house that much.”
Viall and Joy announced their engagement via social media in January 2023, followed by another milestone that summer: Joy’s pregnancy. Their daughter, River Rose, was born in February 2024.
Keep scrolling to see the full timeline of Viall and Joy’s romance: