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Right here's what your favourite 'The Ultimatum' season 1 contestants are as much as, 1 yr later

Nate Ruggles and Lauren Kilos have gotten married and criticized the present.

Lauren Pounds and Nate Ruggles in the reunion episode of "The Ultimatum" season one.

Lauren Kilos and Nate Ruggles within the reunion episode of “The Ultimatum” season one.

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Nate Ruggles and Lauren Kilos got here on the present on account of one foremost disagreement — Nate wished a number of kids and Lauren didn’t need any.

Nevertheless, in episode three, Nate adopted in Hunter’s footsteps and proposed to his associate Lauren earlier than they acquired to the trial marriage stage.

The couple’s costars criticized the proposal on the time because the pair had not solved their problem surrounding kids.

Within the reunion episode, Lauren stated that that they had labored on their relationship off-camera and agreed on one baby.

The pair did finally get married in October 2022 and are nonetheless collectively.

Since leaving the method each Lauren and Nate have been crucial of the way in which the present introduced their relationship.

Lauren wrote within the caption of an Instagram publish final yr: “You already know that you’ve got discovered the one while you stroll by a dumpster hearth collectively and are available out stronger than earlier than. The pretend/edited model of us that was proven on The Ultimatum will not sit properly with everybody, and we’re slowly studying to be okay with that.”

“We left early as a result of we shortly realized how poisonous the expertise was, so we acquired punished for going in opposition to the grain. Lesson discovered! So, if anybody has an issue with us doing what was finest for our relationship, please mission your distress elsewhere, not on our pages,” she added.

Lauren added within the caption that Nate re-proposed with an precise ring six weeks after filming the present.

The couple additionally stated throughout an episode of the “Your Poor Dad” podcast final yr that Nate by no means issued truly issued an ultimatum, per the present’s format, however a producer made it appear that manner.

Nate stated: “One of many first questions I get is ‘Nathan, so inform us why you issued the ultimatum?’ and I am like, ‘Let you know why I did what? What did I do?’ I did not know. I used to be like, ‘Wait I issued…’ They’re like, ‘Yeah, you issued the ultimatum.'”

Lauren and Nate added that they had been uncomfortable with the trial marriage course of, which they stated they had been solely advised about throughout filming, and so they did not need to dwell with Colby and April Marie, who they had been more likely to be paired with.

“It was simply getting increasingly like, ‘Hey, what the hell did we get into,'” Nate stated. “Now we’re additionally principally being paired up with, every of us, the individual that we did not need to be paired up with.”