How Clare Crawley and Dale Moss’ Engagement Ranks Among Bachelor Nation’s Shortest Romances
Watch: “Bachelorette” Stars Clare Crawley & Dale Moss Split
Clare Crawley‘s fairytale romance has come to an end.
After The Bachelorette star got engaged to Dale Moss in episode four of the show’s 16th season, the spark officially ran out. Two months after the proposal aired, Dale set the record straight on his relationship status in an Instagram post.
“I wanted to share with you all that Clare and I have decided to go our separate ways,” he wrote on Tuesday, Jan. 19. “We appreciate the love and support we’ve received from so many people, but this is the healthiest decision for both of us at this time. We strongly believe in leading with love and always remaining true to oneself–something our families have taught and instilled in us throughout our lives. We only hope the best things for one another.”
The news came hours after E! News exclusively revealed that the pair was taking time apart. And despite a few warning signs including a lack of social media posts and sightings, many in Bachelor Nation were hopeful this romance would last. After all, Clare made it clear early on in the season that Dale was her soulmate.
“I am so far in love with Dale,” she told Bachelorette producers prior to Dale’s proposal, which was filmed in August 2020. “We have this connection where it feels like I’ve known him forever. It’s that intangible chemistry that you just can’t make up and you can’t replace. It’s something that is so rare to feel so connected to someone when you’ve only known them for such a short period of time.”
Now the question is, where does this pair land in terms of longest–or shortest–relationships in Bachelor Nation history? The results may surprise you. Keep scrolling to find out more.
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After his mom Barb claimed their romance would never work and her son would have to “fail to succeed,” Peter and Madison lasted all of two days before announcing their mutual decision to go their separate ways.
“Believe me this was not easy for either of us to be ok with, but after a lot of honest conversations, we have agreed that this is what makes most sense for the two of us,” Peter shared. “The love and respect I have for Madi will continue to endure.”
After posting her own statement, Madison, who had previously eliminated herself from the show prior to the final rose ceremony, moved on by having a game night with Selena Gomez. As for Peter, he’s now dating Kelley Flanagan.
“I’ll be relieved to the have the status of the relationship out there, sure,” Aaron said at the time of going public with their split. “I have nothing bad to say about her and I don’t want different accounts of my story turning into rumors. Do it one time on national TV, and everybody will know it’s cut and dry, and what was said and what wasn’t said.”
But in an interview, Helene revealed Matt broke up with her at a Starbucks.
“It felt like a bomb dropped,” she recalled to People. “I said, ‘I feel very deceived by you. You’ve told me every single day that you love me, and now this is it?”‘
The former couple sat down for an ABC special, titled The Bachelor: Aaron and Helene Tell All, after the finale aired.
Arie ended his season engaged to Becca…only to realize shortly after his season premiered that he was in love with his initial runner-up, Lauren Burnham. So he decided to end things with Becca during what was supposed to be a “happy couple” visit in mid-January, with the show airing the brutal break-up in split-screen. Like Becca memorably said: “Are you f–king kidding me?”
Sound familiar?
On the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Hannah Ann revealed Peter ended their relationship at the end of January with ABC’s cameras present, meaning they were together for about two months before he decided to pursue Madison Prewett, who had initially decided to leave the show before the final rose ceremony.
Refusing to let Peter off the hook, Hannah Ann called him out for not being completely honest with her, telling the pilot, “You downplayed your feelings towards Madison to where you said, ‘She has left. You know what, my heart chooses you.’ In the middle of a proposal, you downplayed that to where I had no idea what I was saying yes to. That is called being blindsided, Peter.”
“You’re in Paris and you’re part of this incredible experience, this fantasy world, and then suddenly you come back to Nashville, and living in the same city I think we thought was going to be a great thing,” The Doctors star explained to his local newspaper in a joint interview with Sarah.
The pair, who had broken up while the season was airing, admitted keeping their romance a secret was something they struggled with, despite both living in Nashville. “You’re forced to pretend you don’t know someone, for essentially the last four months,” adding they were afraid to breach their contracts.
“We tried hard to make it work but we realized that we were both heading in different directions,” Matt and Shayne said in a joint statement in 2008. “We truly care about each other and will remain close friends.”
(Narrator: they did not remain close friends.)
Years later, Jesse admitted to E! News he felt pressure to end the show with someone.
“You want to make people at home happy, but at the end of the day, you have to really listen to what your heart is telling you, which can be very difficult to do,” he said.
Bob broke up with Estella over the phone after just one month, and she didn’t hold any punches when addressing their split in an interview.
“He’s not the person I thought he was. I don’t see any reason to ever have a conversation with him,” she told People, adding he was more interested in pursuing a music career than marriage. “The path that I’m taking is different from Bob’s. He’s a big-time star now! He’s big-time, so my life doesn’t compare to that.”
In his interview with the mag, Bob admitted the split was his fault, saying, “I’ve been pulled in so many directions, and the one that I don’t think got enough of my time was our relationship. For that, I feel awful.”
It all made sense when Lorenzo admitted to reporters shortly after his finale aired, “I decided about two hours before the final Rose Ceremony and it was obviously a very difficult decision because I had strong feelings for both Jen and Sadie…I felt a little stronger with Jen just because I thought we had more chemistry. I was trying to find faults with both of them and it was almost impossible but I knew I had to make a decision and it was just that I felt a little closer to Jen and that’s why I went with what I was feeling at the time.”
The beginning of an epic love story it was not. (If only his season, set in Rome, was as interesting as the off-screen drama.)
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“Whitney Bischoff and Chris Soules have mutually and amicably decided to end their engagement,” the couple said in a statement. “They part with nothing but respect and admiration for one another and will continue to be supportive friends. They wish to thank everyone who has supported them through this journey.”
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After becoming one of the most loathed men in America when he decided not to be with either of his final two women in season 11, Brad ended his second tenure as the Bachelor four years later on one knee, proposing to the fan-favorite single mom.
But their engagement ended after just three rocky months, with Emily revealing in her 2016 book I Said Yes that Brad even tried to break up with her in an e-mail he sent to producers ahead of the After the Final Rose taping. “Sorry but things didn’t work out with Emily and I. It wasn’t the fairy tale I thought it would be,” she claimed he wrote.
And their split wasn’t entirely shocking, as they couple released a statement after their finale aired, admitting to People magazine, “Though we are madly in love, it has been a bumpy couple of months for us and our priority right now is to focus on our relationship.”
Watching their season play out proved difficult for Emily, who told the publication, “He had a tendency to say the same thing to a couple girls. So I felt less and less special. I get that it’s a show. But it’s still hard. You’re not sure what’s real and what’s reality TV.”
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“What guy in America would ever want to be intimate with someone who undermines him, emasculates and doesn’t respect him?” Jake asked, claiming Vienna sold stories about him to tabloids.
Vienna then accused her former fiance of being “a famewhore,” claiming he ignored her when the cameras were no longer around. “When we were at home [it was] lonely,” she said.
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After proposing to Vanessa at the end of his time as the lead, the couple announced just five months later that they were breaking up, though they tried to make it work by splitting time between Los Angeles, where Nick lived, and Montreal, Vanessa’s hometown.
“It’s with a great amount of heartbreak for the both us as we have decided to end our engagement,” they told E! News in a statement at the time. “We gave this relationship our all and we are saddened that we did not get the fairytale ending we hoped for. We will continue to be there for each other no matter what. This hasn’t been an easy decision, however, as we part ways, we do so with lots of love and admiration for each other.”
Just one day after making a joint appearance during a live premiere special for Chris Soules’ season of The Bachelor, Andi and Josh announced the end of their engagement after just five months. Fans were shocked and even Chris Harrison was shocked.
But the shock completely wore off by 2016 after Andi released her tell-all book, It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After, alleging that Josh was jealous, controlling, and called her a lot of names. On Bachelor in Paradise‘s third season, he shot down the allegations and recently compared her to the devil earlier this year.
“When the fantasy wore off and the reality set in, we both realized we weren’t ready to be engaged,” Andy, whose season was subtitled Officer and a Gentleman, told In Touch Weekly. “We’re taking things much slower.”
Six months later, they called it quits for good.
“I wasn’t bored any minute of the time we spent together,” she wrote, using an example of her former fiance stealing a pair of surfboards from a dock as an example. “The better part of my nature thought it was rude and disrespectful, but another part of me, the former Emily who had a thing for bad boys, thought it was amusing.”
After six months of drama (Facebook status updates, cryptic tweets, cheating allegations, etc.), Emily and one-F Jef were dunzo.
At the time, Emily confirmed the split, saying in a statement, “It was a very difficult and heartbreaking decision.”
Turns out, Alex never proposed because he still had feelings for Trista, with Amanda eventually discovering this and breaking up with Alex after less than a year of dating.
Amanda told Inside Edition she was “disappointed because I invested a lot of time in trying to make this relationship work.”
As for Alex, he said, “We shared so much of our personal, romantic lives with America and everyone was so supportive and seemed to think I’d picked the right one and everything. But there came a time we had to be private.”
“This is a decision we made together through long and thoughtful discussion,” the couple said in a statement at the time. “It is totally amicable and, though we care for each other deeply, we have come to realize that our future goals are different.”
Jen eventually went on to become the star of The Bachelorette‘s third season, and, in a refreshing surprise, rejected both proposals by season’s end.
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Though they reconciled and said they were “taking it slow,” Ben and Courtney split for good nine months later.
“After meeting over a year ago, we have decided to end our romantic relationship,” the pair said in a joint statement. “The ups and downs weighed heavily on us both, and ultimately we started to grow apart because of the distance, time apart, and our need to focus on our respective careers.”
After their breakup, Courtney was immediately linked to Ben’s friend and eventual Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr.
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“It’s our responsibility to tell you we’re not together anymore,” he said, before going on to reveal how DeAnna broke up with him: “‘I love you, but I’m not in love with you,.’ She’s a great person but she wasn’t willing to try anymore…That’s a lot to swallow no matter who you are when you’re in love and you put yourself out there.”
DeAnna still managed to find love through the Bachelor franchise, as she married Stephen Stagliano, the twin brother of alum Michael Stagliano, in 2011, and the couple has welcomed two children.
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Despite JP not proposing or even saying “I love you” to his final pick, the season 18 couple actually lasted almost a year, which included a stint on VH1’s Couples Therapy. Alas, the distance and other factors proved to be too much to overcome.
“It didn’t end because we didn’t love each other or [over] a lack of communication,” Nikki told Chris Harrison during the season 19 premiere special. “It just ended because of a difference of lifestyle. There was a point we said we love each other, like in a normal relationship.”
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The couple lasted for just under one year before calling it quits, with Jillian later admitting she was “devastated.”
“Our relationship began with great expectations for a happy ending, but unfortunately things didn’t work out as we had hoped,” the pair said in a statement issued to Extra at the time. “What we experienced together was incredible and we are both sad to see it end. We thank you for your support.”
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“We feel fortunate for the time we had together, and will remain friends with much love and respect for one another,” a joint statement at the time read. “We wish nothing but the best for each other, and ask for your support and understanding at this time.”
Still arguably one of the most popular Bachelors of all-time, Ben took the breakup especially hard, struggling to move on and breaking down during The Bachelor Winter Games. “To be honest, I’m still emotionally dealing with the loss of that relationship,” he said on the show, which aired in January 2018, adding the public’s interest in the split was something he struggled with.
“When something so real to you then seems so small to everybody else–and not just friends and family, millions of people–it breaks you every day, and that’s what sucks, because as much as I’ve moved on–and I have–it still hurts, even though we’re months past it.”
Since then, Ben has entered his first serious relationship, officially proposing to girlfriend, Jessica Clarke, in March 2020. Lauren, meanwhile, married country singer Chris Lane in October 2019.
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“It’s not necessarily a bad thing if a couple decides to go different ways. It could be the best thing for them,” she said on Love Buzz in 2017. “[About] The Bachelor and Bachelorette, people are always like, ‘Oh, your relationship from The Bachelor didn’t work out–it was a failed relationship.’ And I said, ‘Actually, I think it was the most successful relationship of my life because I learned so much about myself.'”
She added, “We actually ended up splitting ways because we weren’t right for each other. You’re not right for someone, and you split ways–isn’t that a success? Yeah, I believe it is. What the real failure is, and the real sad thing, would be to stay with someone you’re not meant for, you’re not right for, and be miserable.”
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“It’s been a crazy few months to say the least, Cass and I have been doing a lot of self-reflecting,” he shared on Instagram. “Sometimes people are just meant to be friends – and that’s okay. We both have grown immensely and been through so much together – so this isn’t the end of our story, it’s the start of a whole new chapter for us.”
“They are trying to keep it low-key because they are still working things out,” the insider said, “but the relationship is definitely done.”
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After proposing to Becca Kufrin at the end of his season, a conflicted Arie realized he had made a mistake and was in love with his runner-up. So he did what anyone else would do: He blindsided Becca, breaking up with her in a raw, unedited scene before asking Lauren for another chance, proposing during the After the Final Rose special.
“I have made some bad decisions, but the best decision was running back to you. I can’t imagine a life without you. You have shown me a love that is patient, a love that is kind, and I truly believe you are my soul mate,” Arie told Lauren during his televised proposal. “I’m ready to face this life with you and all that comes with it. Good and bad. I love you so much.”
But the drama was all worth it, as the couple officially became Mr. and Mrs. Luyendyk in January 2019 and welcomed their first child, a daughter named Alessi, in May 2019.
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“My journey with Bryan has been surreal, in the sense that I never, coming onto the show, thought I would meet a Bryan,” the Dallas attorney-turned-host previously told E! News. “When I met him I just thought ‘Oh, he’s cute.’ We had this banter. But then just hearing, ‘Oh, I’m 37 and I have a career,’ and I’m like, ‘Wait, no, guys like you aren’t supposed to come on this season.’ So, it’s just been a really beautiful surprise.”
The couple currently lives in Miami and both host their own successful podcasts, in addition to Rachel’s ESPN Radio gig and correspondent work and Bryan’s career as a chiropractor.
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