Big Brother couple Memphis Garrett and Christmas Abbott got caught up in a wild physical fight with two angry patrons outside of their Florida bar recently.
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The fight occurred in January outside of Memphis' bar in Fort Lauderdale called No Man's Land.
Sources told TMZ conflicting stories about what sparked the violence.
According to one source, a man and a woman walked inside the bar and ordered drinks, only for Memphis to tell them that they were closed. When the couple refused to leave, things reportedly got heated between Memphis and the patrons.
However, another insider -- who was inside the bar at the time -- claimed all the fighting started and ended outside of the bar.
Memphis and Christmas' attorney, Brian Karpf, told the website that Memphis was attacked by the man and then Christmas jumped in to support her man.
Karpf explained that Christmas -- who was awaiting surgery for a neck injury -- attempted to pull Memphis away but then got hit by the woman. A bartender apparently tried to break up the "vicious beatdown," as TMZ put it.
Christmas reportedly said that, after the couple continued to throw things at the windows and wouldn't leave the establishment, she called the police and filed a report.
But Christmas' attorney said she decided not to press charges, as long as the couple won't return to the bar in the future.
Christmas and Memphis got engaged in June 2021 and tied the knot in May 2022 at the State Railroad Museum in Savannah, GA, E! News reported.
Christmas called her big day "magical" at the time, adding on social media, "I can't believe I got to marry my best friend. #Final2Forever."
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Christmas also dubbed Memphis her "forever man," and gushed in another post that her wedding was "as perfect as [Memphis]."
Meanwhile, Memphis agreed the wedding was "perfect" and posted on his own Instagram account, "The world watched us meet, become best friends, fall in love and now be married!!!!! Forever has begun!... The tears were rolling!!!"
"This woman has changed my life forever. She has shown me just how good life can actually be. I love you @christmasabbott," Memphis captioned a wedding photo.
Memphis and Christmas were both in relationships with other people when they competed on Big Brother: All-Stars, the show's 22nd season that wrapped in October 2020, so neither person acted on the romantic feelings they may have had for each other during the game.
But after the show, they began dating and then Memphis proposed marriage to Christmas on the beach during a romantic getaway to Little Palm Island Resort & Spa in June 2021.
"We can continue to build our relationship and grow together," Memphis told E! News. "We have so much fun together and we complement each other. When you find something like that, you don't ever want to let that go. She is my forever girl."
And Christmas said she believes that God created Memphis "just for me."
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"I knew that everything that had happened in my life prepared me to meet him, so when I did, I would know he's my person without a doubt. He is my best friend and my HOME and I get to spend forever with him."
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Christmas revealed that she initially wanted to get married in a local courthouse but Memphis suggested they should have a more elaborate, grand event for their nuptials.
"He wanted to have our family and friends celebrate our love and feel the love of that experience," Christmas explained.
"We chatted about a few ideas and then he planned it all! What he created was breathtaking. It's what he does and he is excellent at it. Marrying him is the best blessing, the wedding is a bonus!"
Memphis previously told Us Weekly in December 2020 that he knew around Week 6 there "was something about" Christmas that he wouldn't be able to ignore. That same month, Christmas and Memphis went Instagram official.
"I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her a few weeks into the All Star season of Big Brother," Memphis told E! News.
"Since the first time I saw her years back, I always knew she was supposed to be a part of my life, I just didn't know in what capacity. Once I spent a few weeks with her, I knew exactly."
Dating speculation began to swirl when Christmas and Memphis were photographed hanging out at a Florida bar together in November 2020 and the image circulated on social media.
Both individuals are parents, as Christmas shares her four-year-old son Loyal with ex Benjamin Bunn and Memphis shares his eight-year-old son River with his ex-wife Ashley.
Christmas shared last year how she and Memphis bonded over being single parents on Big Brother.
"We have such a unique and fascinating story of how we fell in love and came together," Christmas told E! News at the time.
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She added, "We accept each other as we are and love one another for who we are at our core. He's my home."
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Christmas and Memphis finished Big Brother: All-Stars in fourth and fifth place, respectively, and both of them ultimately voted for Cody Calafiore to win the game over runner-up Enzo Palumbo.
Prior to All-Stars, Christmas competed on Big Brother's nineteenth season and placed third. Memphis first appeared on Big Brother's tenth season all the way back in 2008.
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