90 Day Fiance star Ed "Big Ed" Brown is reportedly engaged to girlfriend Liz Woods, who briefly split from him following the conclusion of filming of Season 1 of 90 Day: The Single Life.
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Ed, 56, and Liz had previously sparked engagement rumors when Liz was spotted wearing a big diamond ring on her left hand during a joint nightclub appearance in Santa Barbara, CA, earlier this month, according to TMZ.
The website also reported on September 8 that Ed introduced Liz to people at the club as his "beautiful fiancee" and said they're set to marry.
Ed and Liz apparently worked things out and decided to take their relationship to the next level after a brief split earlier this year.
Back in May, Ed admitted to Us that he and Liz were "in a rough spot" and were "working through [things]."
"A relationship is hard, and she got out of her last relationship recently. I think she was only single for about two weeks before her and I started dating. So I think for Liz, it was a lot too fast," Ed shared at the time.
Ed acknowledged he "absolutely" saw red flags with Liz but "really was" in love with her.
"And I still am," he noted.
90 Day: The Single Life's Season 1 finale had ended with the couple together and Ed telling the cameras he had already "picked out" an engagement ring for Liz and planned to propose "when it felt right."
However, when 90 Day: The Single Life's Season 1 Tell-All reunion was released on discovery+ in May, Ed and Liz were completely estranged and Ed said he wasn't sure if Liz had moved on from their relationship.
"I don't know... if she's in another relationship or what. I treated Liz very well. I did the best I could, but she was taught to fight -- not to love and be affectionate," Ed told the cameras, adding that it was "just too soon" and the split was too fresh to reunite with her in-person.
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Liz ultimately showed up to the Tell-All late, and when host Shaun Robinson asked Ed and Liz -- who sat far apart from each other on the stage -- what was going on between them, Ed admitted, "We broke up."
"We broke up a month ago today," Liz added.
Shaun noted The Single Life's first season had ended with Ed asking Liz to moving into his home and the couple planning to begin living together.
"Ed loves to rush our relationship," Liz revealed as her explanation for the breakup.
"When we finally became a couple, the next week I was meeting his daughter and then the next week I was meeting his sister and his brother. I was thrown in multiple situations I was not prepared for."
Liz admitted she thought Ed was going to be "The One" for her but he really disappointed her.
Ed owned up to moving the relationship way too fast, adding in tears, "Our relationship didn't have a chance, so everything she said is true."
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"The minute she said, 'I see you as boyfriend material,' I stopped listening," Ed said.
"I didn't listen to one word she said, and I was like, 'I'm going to make her my girlfriend. I'm going to make her world amazing. I'm going to do everything I can to give her what I thought she deserved and she never had.' And then I f-cked it up. I f-cked it up."
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Liz told Shaun that she felt pressure to "cave in" and move at Ed's fast pace or else she was going to lose him.
"He would tell me all the time that it wouldn't work out between us [if I didn't give him more of my time]," Liz alleged. "And it scared me, but I would listen and so I caved. I didn't want to lose him and I still lost him."
Liz later scolded Ed for hurting her and breaking his promises by leaving her, and she said, "You shut me out."
Liz went on to claim Ed had blocked her after their split and then traveled to Las Vegas, where he allegedly "ranted about [his] sugarbabies."
"I didn't expect to be dumped and then [Ed] be out in Vegas living 'the life,'" Liz explained, adding that it only took Ed two days after their breakup to begin partying again with other women.
Ed said he was "trying to fill an emptiness" but promised Liz he had not hooked up with another woman.
Regardless, Liz called Ed "an assh-le" and said their time together was "gone." She also accused Ed of sending her a text message in which he had allegedly bragged about his plan to go on dates until he comes across Mrs. Right.
"That killed me when I read those words!" Liz said, before Ed apologized and confessed, "I am a d-ck!"
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"So you really weren't with anybody? I mean you would have had a right," Ed asked Liz, who replied no.
"I was scared if you ever gave me another chance again, like, you would disown me for it," Liz said.
"I have to learn to trust you," Ed said.
"I love you," Liz said.
"I love you too," Ed replied.
After filming the Tell-All, Ed told Us that he "definitely" wanted to make his relationship with Liz work.
"We have a lot to work on. We talked about getting counseling, we've talked a lot about going to church. Yeah, so I'm very optimistic and I want to give this a chance and see it through," Ed shared. "I do [feel like Liz is in it as well]."
Ed, a professional photographer from San Diego, CA, thought he had found the love of his life in Rosemarie "Rose" Vega, a 23-year-old single mom from the Philippines, but the pair split up on 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days' fourth season.
During an April episode of 90 Day: The Single Life, Ed asked Liz -- a restaurant employee whom Ed had been crushing on and previously took out on a couple of dates -- to be his girlfriend.
After Ed said he and Liz "made love all night" in a hotel room, Liz agreed to be Ed's official girlfriend as long as he wouldn't rush things. Liz also acknowledged she wasn't ready to meet Ed's adult daughter Tiffany yet.
"Liz lights up my world and I'm realizing that she's whom I want to be with forever... I never thought I would find love again. I just hope I don't blow it!" Ed said on the show at the time.
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