Bachelorette spoilers providing new details on how Katie Thurston's The Bachelorette season ends have emerged -- including who makes Katie's Final 3 bachelors, which guy completely breaks her heart, whom Katie picks as her winner, and whether Katie is engaged to the man she ended up with on Season 17.
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[The Bachelorette Spoilers Warning: This report contains spoilers for Katie Thurston's The Bachelorette season -- including spoilers revealing which bachelor broke Katie's heart, who received Katie's final rose, and if she is engaged to her final pick now.]
Katie made a big series of cuts when determining her Final 4 bachelors for hometown dates.Katie ousted the following bachelors from the running for her heart: Brendan Scanzano, a 26-year-old firefighter trainee from Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Mike Planeta, a 31-year-old proud virgin and gym owner from San Diego, CA; and Andrew Spencer, a 26-year-old pro football player who splits his time between Vienna, Austria and Chicago, IL.
Andrew's exit was an emotional one, as Katie essentially chased the bachelor down and asked if he'd like an opportunity to stay on the show.
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Despite telling Katie that he'd wait for her if she ever changed her mind about their relationship, Andrew opted to leave the competition and not resume competing for The Bachelorette's heart.
Once Andrew left for good, the last four men left standing were Justin Glaze, a 26-year-old investment sales consultant from Baltimore, MD; Greg Grippo, a 27-year-old marketing sales rep from Edison, NJ; Blake Moynes, a 30-year-old wildlife manager from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Michael Allio, a 36-year-old business owner from Akron, OH.
Katie said although she didn't want to say goodbye to Andrew and it was "so hard" to watch him drive away, she had received the closure she needed and was one step closer to finding her husband.
But fans will have to wait two weeks to watch the men's hometown dates, as ABC is set to air The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All special on Monday, July 26 at 8PM ET/PT.
Katie's cast of exes will all meet in one room and hash out some of the dramatic moments from the show's seventeenth season.
But before the men get into it, footage will be shown of one of Katie's Final 4 bachelors coming to "an emotional realization about his journey to find love."
That emotional revelation leads to a "heartbreakingly honest" conversation with Katie at the New Mexico resort, ABC teased of the big scene that will kick off The Men Tell All.
The rest of The Men Tell All will feature Katie's bachelors laughing at their mistakes, gaining closure from Katie, and watching back some memorable moments -- all in front of a live studio audience, which is a departure from The Bachelorette's sixteenth season that was filmed last year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Men Tell All episode will wrap up with a sneak peek at The Bachelorette's final two episodes, airing on Monday, August 2 and Monday, August 9 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.
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Keep reading for The Bachelorette's Season 17 spoilers to find out what's going to unfold on the rest of Katie's season!
The Bachelorette season stays at the same resort through the finale
Like last year's The Bachelorette season and this year's The Bachelor season, Katie's entire The Bachelorette season was filmed at a single location. In this case, it was the Hyatt Regency Tamaya in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.During filming, cast and crew were required to quarantine before filming began and then follow coronavirus safety measures throughout their time at the resort, according to Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone.
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Tayshia Adams teased during a recent appearance on the "Going to Bed with Garcelle" podcast that the world will see something "fresh and new" with Katie's season.
"I think that people are looking for change in the franchise," Tayshia.
"And I really think that this is something that they're going to be really excited about."
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Katie's The Bachelorette season wraps up sooner than planned
The Bachelorette season reportedly wrapped production sooner than producers anticipated because Katie's journey to find love ended unexpectedly early.According to a source, The Bachelorette "went great and it wrapped a week ahead of schedule," Us Weekly reported.
Katie was reportedly a decisive Bachelorette who meant business and so production ended on April 24, which was earlier than producers had planned.
"Katie was in control and made sure the men she wanted were there and the men she wasn't interested in, she sent packing," the source told the magazine.
After taping The Bachelorette, Katie returned to Instagram on April 28 and hinted at how she had started "a healthy relationship."
"Can't start a healthy relationship without being healthy," Katie captioned a video of herself getting the coronavirus vaccine, hinting that she may have found love on The Bachelorette this year.
Reality Steve reported Katie's Final 4 bachelors wrong for months
Carbone initially reported in May that John Hersey, a 27-year-old from Santa Cruz, CA, made Katie's Final 4 bachelors along with Blake and Greg. He did not know the fourth person.Carbone corrected his mistake on June 3 and said John did not make the Final 4 after all.
And then on June 6, the spoiler blogger claimed he had finally nailed down Katie's correct Final 4.
Carbone reported at the time that Greg, Blake, Justin and Andrew S. had finished as Katie's Final 4 bachelors.
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He also posted images of Katie's four alleged hometown-date recipients in an Instagram post on June 6 and followed it with a tweet.
Carbone captioned the men's photos, "(SPOILER) Katie's final 4."
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As it turned out, Katie did in fact give her only four roses to Blake, Justin, Greg and Michael A.
Katie got her heart broken during The Bachelorette
Katie has revealed that she experienced a broken heart during The Bachelorette season.Katie has described her season as a "wild ride" and "roller coaster" with a big drop at one point, and during a June 30 appearance on Nick Viall's The Viall Files podcast, Katie confessed that she totally and completely got crushed while filming the show.
"Have you ever had your heart broken?" asked Nick, who hosted a group date earlier in the season.
"Oh, a thousand times. Okay, that's a little dramatic, but yeah, of course I've had my heart broken," Katie admitted. "On the season I had my heart broken! Spoiler alert!"
Nick was surprised by the news and therefore questioned, "So just to confirm, you felt legitimate heartbreak on this season? Your heart was broken?"
"You woke up the next day... and for a half a second you feel okay," he continued, "until you realize how f-cking sh-tty your existence is and your body swells up with anxiety... and you're just like, 'F-ck, my heart is broken!"
"Oh my God!" Katie replied.
"Am I wrong? If you've had your heart broken, you know exactly what I mean," Nick said.
"I get it, that's very intense and accurate -- but yes," Katie confirmed.
"That happened?" Nick asked.
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Nick predicted either Greg left the season -- despite his promise to stay and stick it out until the end -- or single dad Michael A. suddenly decided to return home to his son James, but Katie remain tight-lipped and commended Nick for trying to get the spoiler out of her.
"Look, I got great guys. So you can only imagine sending these great guys home was very tough," Katie said.
Katie may actually have had her heart broken twice!
According to Reality Steve, both Michael A. and Greg had unexpected, unplanned exits from Katie's The Bachelorette season.Back on May 13, Carbone reported that he didn't know the details of Michael A's departure from the show.
"I don't know any of the exact details regarding his departure, I just know either Katie sends him home to be with his son or he wants to leave because of it," the spoiler blogger wrote at the time.
Carbone predicted in May that Michael left the show before hometowns.
"So half of that is right," Carbone revealed in a July 19 blog posting. "Michael does self-eliminate, but not until next week."
The spoiler blogger admitted he had Andrew S. and Michael A.'s finishing order switched.
"When I reported that back in May on Michael A., the one thing I knew was that his family never met Katie. So I made the assumption he didn't finish Top 4 since, well, Top 4 get hometowns," Carbone explained of the error.
"I made the wrong assumption there on his placement. He finishes 4th, BUT, his family doesn't meet Katie."
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Michael A. quits The Bachelorette before his hometown date
Like Carbone said, Michael, who lost his late wife to cancer, quit the competition prior to bringing Katie home to meet his beloved child, parents and in-laws.RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' COUPLES NOW: WHO DID 'THE BACHELOR' STARS AND THEIR BACHELORETTE PICKS ACTUALLY END UP MARRYING? (PHOTOS)
The Bachelorette viewers will reportedly watch Michael A. leave the show -- and probably devastate Katie -- at the beginning of The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All broadcast airing on Monday, July 26.
"At the beginning of next week's episode, we'll see Michael self eliminate because of his son, and Katie never meets his family. Then the episode will transition into the Men Tell All," Carbone reported.
The Men Tell All, hosted by former The Bachelorette stars Kaitlyn Bristowe and Tayshia Adams, filmed on Thursday, July 15 and Michael was reportedly in attendance.
Fans can therefore expect Michael A. to explain his surprising and sudden choice to leave Katie and go home as a single man.
Katie's season takes some twists during the Final 3 hometown and Fantasy Suite dates
Greg, Justin and Blake all presumably received hometown dates following Michael A.'s exit.Carbone is unsure, however, of whether Katie eliminated one of her three remaining bachelors after hometown dates at a Rose Ceremony or brought Justin, Greg and Blake to Fantasy Suites since three men typically enjoy overnight dates with The Bachelorette star every season.
The spoiler blogger does not know which bachelor finished the season in third place, but he has revealed a major detail about the demise of Katie and Greg's romance!
Katie and Greg reportedly had a blowout fight during Katie's week of Fantasy Suite dates.
Greg seems to be the guy who broke Katie's heart
ABC has aired a preview multiple times of Katie threatening to quit The Bachelorette.In the preview, Katie is shown crying, storming away from cameras, and yelling at a producer to book her a flight home because she's "done" with the process.
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"Now, it's impossible to get specifics on something like this because I wasn't there and didn't hear it first hand... So to the best of my ability, here's what I can tell you what happened: During an off day on overnight dates, Greg goes to Katie's room to talk to her," Carbone wrote in a July 14 blog posting.
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Without knowing specifics, Carbone believes Greg had received some type of validation or reassurance from Katie that she was going to pick him in the end.
Due to the fact Greg was allegedly convinced about being Katie's winner, Carbone reported, "He couldn't understand why she was still involved with other men -- something the editing has alluded to all season which is that Greg is having a hard time with the process."
If Carbone is correct in saying there were other "men" still around, Katie must have brought all three of her Final 3 bachelors to Fantasy Suites after hometowns.
Carbone said Greg's frustration hit "a boiling point" when he allegedly sought Katie out in her hotel room to talk about the situation.
"Everything I'm hearing is that Greg's exit from the show will not be pretty. It's a meltdown apparently," Carbone revealed.
"When [Brendan Morais] eliminated himself towards the end of Tayshia's [The Bachelorette] season, he politely told Tayshia how he was feeling, felt he wasn't ready, and while it was a tough conversation to have, it was cordial. Greg and Katie's conversation is the opposite."
Carbone described the fight as a lot of push and pull and back and forth from both individuals.
"[Greg] talks to her, leaves, then she goes to talk to him, then one storms off, and it just keeps going. I've been told the two of them kept going back and forth at each other 'for hours,'" Carbone wrote in his blog.
Greg and Katie's fight results in Greg leaving the show
"They have a blowout fight during the overnight dates which essentially causes him to leave the show," Carbone reported, adding that Greg's ouster "upsets Katie a lot."ADVERTISEMENT
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"Maybe she really was set to pick him but saw this side and realized better," Carbone wrote, making it unclear as to whether Katie dumped Greg after the fight or he chose to leave the show on his own accord.
Sources have told Carbone that Greg will come out of this fight looking pretty bad to fans.
While Carbone isn't sure whether Greg put an ultimatum on the table, Greg reportedly couldn't comprehend why Katie would want to spend the night with one or two other men if she was allegedly sold on choosing him.
"Greg is having a real hard time understanding why she'd want to be with anyone else, and it escalates from there," Carbone elaborated.
"So much so I've been told 'it's the worst fight we've ever seen on this show.'"
Both Katie and Greg were reportedly crying and "raising their voices" at each other.
"It's a giant sh-t show. Hell, I don't care if Katie did tell him she was gonna pick him and gave him every assurance in the world. It's not gonna justify him reacting like this," Carbone wrote.
Up to this point, Greg has received a favorable edit on The Bachelorette's seventeenth season. Greg has come across sweet, shy, reserved and nervous, and he's said on numerous occasions that he's smitten with Katie and falling in love with her.
"They edited it this way on purpose to 'surprise' you for what's ahead -- basically a 180 from the Greg we've seen up to this point," Carbone claimed.
"So that's 'what happens' with Greg and what causes him to ultimately leave the show at that point. Should make for a hell of an After the Final Rose."
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"So it's definitely not a traditional ending as Katie says, and once Greg leaves after this blowup, I'm sure there's some weirdness on how Katie continues on because clearly she was into him and I'm sure she wasn't expecting this blowout to happen," Carbone concluded.
"Stay tuned," he added. "Should be good."
So did Katie pick Justin, Blake or neither -- and did she get engaged?
According to Carbone, Katie left the show happy and in a relationship.And not only did Katie enter a relationship, but she reportedly got engaged!
"I guess the biggest 'spoiler' I have for you is this: Katie is engaged. However, I don't know to who," Carbone wrote on May 13.
However, Carbone had yet to learn the identity of Katie's The Bachelorette winner at the time.
"I know you may ask, 'How can you know she's engaged but not know who to?'" Carbone continued. "Trust me, it's possible. I'm just not gonna give up sources on that, so yeah, it's possible to know one and not the other."
But the spoiler blogger had no doubts that Katie accepted a marriage proposal at the end of her journey to find love on The Bachelorette's seventeenth season.
"Katie definitely got engaged at the end of this," Carbone insisted in his blog.
"And unless she breaks up before the finale, which I guess anything can happen, but she's happy and engaged as we speak, so I'd expect that to last."
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"I just need certain confirmations before running with the winner this season," he explained. "While I've been able to correct wrong reveals in the past, it's not fun having to do that."
Carbone continued, "So I'd rather have it right from the get go rather than reveal something I'm not totally 100 percent on and have to go back and correct."
Blake Moynes reportedly is Katie's The Bachelorette winner
Katie selected Blake in the end, Carbone reported, and Blake proposed marriage.Carbone revealed the alleged winner of Katie's season and whom she got engaged to on June 23.
Carbone wrote in his blog, "I don't know how the Final 4 shakes out just yet in terms of who goes home when... [but] Katie is engaged to Blake Moynes."
"Maybe some people will be surprised by this, and maybe some won't," the spoiler blogger added, "but I was able to get it confirmed."
Carbone, however, would not provide a percentage to describe how sure he was of his report.
"That never does me any good," Carbone explained. "Sure, I expect there to be doubt like every season. All I can say is it's been about a 7 week process since filming ended to get this info, and I'm very confident in what I've been told."
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Carbone insisted he has received "actual proof" that Katie did not get engaged to Justin or Greg.
"All signs pointed to Blake due to process of elimination, but I still didn't feel comfortable reporting Blake because nobody had actually told me 'Katie is engaged to Blake.' I also hadn't been told that she DIDN'T pick him either," Carbone shared.
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Carbone therefore confirmed Katie is with Blake and they're engaged.
Only time will reveal what happened between Katie and Justin
Other than Katie accepting a marriage proposal from Blake, Carbone is unsure about the timing of the engagement and what transpired in the days or moments beforehand.Justin's placement in Katie's finishing order is therefore the missing piece of Reality Steve's puzzle.
Justin could have quit or been eliminated by Katie right after hometowns or in the middle of Fantasy Suite Week, either before or after Greg's departure.
It's also possible Justin made it to Katie's Final 2 bachelors and was dumped at the Final Rose Ceremony when it's likely Katie and Blake got engaged.
So are Katie and Blake still together now?
Katie previously told Us Weekly that she believes "everything happens for a reason" when teasing how her season ended, and she confirmed she is "happy" now.Considering it's not rare or abnormal for a Bachelor or Bachelorette couple to break up shortly after filming the finale -- like in Arie Luyendyk Jr. or Hannah Brown's case with their winners -- fans are probably wondering if Katie is currently happy single or in a relationship.
While Carbone previously just assumed Blake and Katie stayed together after getting engaged on The Bachelorette, he gave fans the confirmation they were waiting for in late June.
"I just know that Katie got engaged to Blake at the end of filming and they're still together," Carbone wrote June 23 on Instagram.
At this point, The Bachelorette viewers can therefore expect Katie and Blake to appear on The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose together as a happily-engaged couple.
Blake felt he and Katie could end up engaged from the start
When Blake asked to join Katie's The Bachelorette season, he made it very clear that he was ready to get engaged if his relationship with Katie lasted all the way to the end of the show.ADVERTISEMENT
"He really felt passionately you guys would be an amazing match," Tayshia told Katie during The Bachelorette's June 29 episode, before Katie met Blake face to face for the first time.
"I think he's an amazing guy and I truly feel like he is someone that has good intentions... I know you're not here for somebody that's not going to get down on a knee at the end of this, and I really feel like he can be that person for you."
Tayshia insisted Blake was genuine and would accept Katie for who she is.
When Katie and Blake met, Blake apologized for throwing "a wrench" into her plans but said he was "intrigued" by her openness, boldness, confidence and playfulness on Matt James' season of The Bachelor.
Katie -- who revealed Blake had sent her a DM on Instagram prior to filming The Bachelorette -- called Blake "very handsome" and seemed giddy, but she worried about being his third Bachelorette after both Tayshia and Clare Crawley.
Blake said he completely understood that and wished he could have met Katie under different circumstances.
"This is the last place I want to do this," Blake insisted.
"The risk of me looking like a complete idiot is high, but the reward is so much greater than that risk. You are beautiful, but everything else you bring to the table, you check boxes that no one else has."
Blake added, "It just comes down to the fact that I would 'what if?' and regret forever if I didn't do this."
Katie admitted there could "maybe" be something between them but she feared letting down her original bachelors.
"I promise you that if it came down to the end and we connected in a way that I think that we might, we would be engaged at the end of this," Blake assured Katie. "I didn't come here to disappoint, and I wouldn't do that to you. That's just not me."
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After careful consideration, Katie allowed Blake to join her cast of men, and clearly the wildlife activist lived up to his word!
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