90 Day Fiance couple Mike Youngquist and Natalie Mordovtseva have been announced as new cast members on 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s upcoming sixth season.
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90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s sixth season premiering Sunday, April 25 at 8PM ET/PT on TLC will feature Mike and Natalie trying to settle into married life in Sequim, Washington, although Natalie fears Mike isn't committed and his disapproving mother is trying to turn Mike against her, Entertainment Tonight reported.
TLC announced earlier this week two additional 90 Day Fiance eighth-season couples -- Brandon Gibbs and Julia Trubkina as well as Jovi Dufren and Yara Zaya -- will also be starring on Season 6 of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, and ET confirmed the news.
Married couple Brandon, a 27-year-old pest-control technician who helps to run his parents' farm in Dinwiddie, VA, and Julia, a 26-year-old go-go club dancer from Krasnodar City, Russia, were announced as Happily Ever After? cast members in a commercial that aired during Sunday night's finale broadcast of 90 Day Fiance's eighth season.
In the 90 Day Fiance promo, Brandon and Julia were shown putting their luggage into a car.
"We have to leave," Brandon says in the footage.
The promo also showed Jovi, a 29-year-old from New Orleans, LA, rocking his new baby girl, Mylah, in the New Orleans apartment he shares with his new wife Yara, a 25-year-old from Ukraine.
The 90 Day Fiance commercial confirmed Yara and Jovi's participation given the @fraudedmedia Instagram account had reported in late March the couple would be starring on 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s next season.
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Last month, TLC announced a partial Season 6 cast of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? and noted three additional couples would be announced "soon."
At the time, TLC revealed 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s sixth season will definitely star three returning Season 5 couples this spring: Angela Deem and Michael Ilesanmi, Kalani Faagata and Asuelu Pulaa, and Elizabeth Potthast and Andrei Castravet.
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOWIn addition, the network had also previously identified Tiffany Franco and Ronald Smith as Season 6 cast members. Tiffany and Ronald first appeared on Season 1 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way.
Neither TLC or Entertainment Tonight has made any mention of Season 2 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way couple Melyza Zeta and Tim Clarkson starring on Happily Ever After? this year.
However, Melyza reportedly took to her Instagram Story on March 28 and spilled announced she and her fiance were expecting to star on the show's upcoming sixth season.
"Thrilled to be back," Melyza, 28, captioned a photo of her filming in Medellin, Colombia that has since expired or been deleted.
Melyza also added a 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? sticker to her post.
In the 90 Day Fiance promo that aired Sunday night on TLC, Angela teased that she planned to do "something drastic," Tiffany admitted she may want a divorce from her blissfully-unaware husband Ronald, and Elizabeth was shown fighting with her sister on a boat over her family's poor treatment of her husband Andrei.
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Beginning Sunday, April 25 at 11PM ET/PT, TLC will also air new episodes of 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk, the companion show which features 90 Day Fiance alums offering commentary on each week's Happily Ever After? episode as they watch it in bed.
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Mike from Sequim, Washington and Natalie from Kyiv, Ukraine, met through a mutual friend and initially on Season 7 of 90 Day Fiance.
90 Day Fiance's eighth season premiered with Natalie flying to the U.S. on her K-1 visa and adjusting to life in America despite her jealousy and trust issues.
Mike and Natalie often challenged each other and had to overcome many differences -- including their diets, cultures, lifestyles, and religions.
The show featured Mike coming down with a case of cold feet and canceling his wedding to Natalie on the morning of their big day. Natalie had an emotional breakdown and insisted she was "done" with her fiance forever.
However, Mike apologized for his decision-making and promised Natalie that he was just experiencing nerves and still loved her, and so Natalie accepted his apology and chose to forgive him.
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"Past the 90 days, I want you to stay and I don't want you to go anywhere... I don't want you to go home," Mike said.
With only one day left on Natalie's K-1 visa, the couple had to decide whether to get married the next day or allow Natalie to leave America and fly back to the Ukraine when coronavirus was rapidly spreading.
"I don't see any solution except getting married. That's it," Natalie said, before telling Mike, "If you don't want to marry me tomorrow, I have to leave tomorrow."
Natalie said if Mike wanted to be with her, he only had one choice to make -- but he wouldn't give her an answer and she was "so frustrated."
Mike was trying to process everything as Natalie felt "abandoned" by her fiance.
"We've got our issues, lots of things. Everything is rushed. It's not like it's a magical fairy tale," Mike complained.
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In the end, Mike chose to go through with the wedding in April 2020 even though he didn't feel ready for it.
"I wasn't sure if I was 100 percent ready to marry [Natalie]. I was just kind of having doubts, but at the end of the day, love is a strange thing," Mike told the cameras on 90 Day Fiance's Season 8 finale.
"Sometimes it [doesn't] make sense, and sometimes it does. The past few days have been difficult for me and Natalie, but we're out of time. Time is here. I'm looking at her in a beautiful dress and I'm nervous and I'm scared."
Mike and Natalie exchanged vows by the pond in Mike's backyard and both said, "I do."
Natalie said she felt grateful to Mike for choosing to give their relationship a real chance, and she felt blessed to have more time to work on their romance in the United States.
Part 1 of 90 Day Fiance's eighth-season Tell-All special airs Sunday, April 11 on TLC, with Part 2 airing the following week.
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