The Bachelorette alum Nayte Olukoya has finally hard launched his relationship and revealed his girlfriend, Allyssa Malony, after keeping their romance under wraps.
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Nayte uploaded a carousel of sweet photos with Allyssa on February 14, including pictures of them hugging and a sexy image of Allyssa rocking a red bikini on the beach.
Nayte also shared the lyrics to the song "Sweet" by Teezo Touchdown, writing, "Honestly, you're too good for me. Honestly, we'll last about a week. Honestly, my life is sour. But when I'm with you everything's sweeeeeeeeeeeet."
Nayte concluded his post, "She's for sure going to hate half these pics. But me, I like 'em :)"
The Bachelorette alum also posted a photo with Allyssa all dressed up via Instagram Stories, and he shared, "When I found out that she's 30% Nigerian, I knew it was a wrap!"
Congratulatory messages poured in from Bachelor Nation on Nayte's post.
Rodney Mathews commented, "MY PEOPLE!!! LOVE YALL!!! YESSIR!!! WE MADE IT!!!"
Susie Evans wrote, "Screaming crying throwing up."
Genevieve Parisi exclaimed, "Here she isssss!!"
Andrew Spencer commented, "She seems very lovely!"
And Jason Tartick wrote, "Congrats my man."
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"I don't do hookup culture. I've never been into that stuff, and I almost never reply to DMs. If I go to a bar and there's a woman all over me, I'm like, 'I'm going home by myself,'" Nayte said.
"It just doesn't interest me... I'm the type of person, like, 'Let's meet out and about.'"
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Nayte said he met his girlfriend organically at a bar and she didn't recognize him from The Bachelorette's eighteenth season.
Nayte confirmed that he was the one who hit on her and he "pretty much" knew this woman was for him at first sight.
"I'm a face guy. I'm a face guy, through and through," Nayte shared, adding how his girlfriend has a "great" face.
"[I had] immediate eye contact for sure, and then we just kind of got to talking. We talked for a while, like, after the bar -- because obviously we didn't go home together, because I don't do that."
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Nayte recalled, "I let her know about my relationship, about my breakup, about my experience on the show. She would ask questions, I'd answer them, and I'd just be as honest as I could. It never bothered her and it never bothered me."
Nayte admitted he and his girlfriend have "been together for a while" but he'd been keeping the relationship private and off social media after his last highly-publicized romance and split with Michelle.
Nayte also gushed at the time about how his girlfriend is "very cool" and they were spending almost every night together.
"She definitely gets jealous at times... but she's never been overbearing or crazy. She's been really cool about this whole thing," Nayte noted.
Nayte ultimately said his girlfriend "may" be The One -- "but who knows."
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Nayte and Michelle got engaged on The Bachelorette's Season 18 finale, which aired in December 2021, but they never moved in together or even moved to the same state.
Nayte, who was living in Texas at the time, and Michelle -- who had strong ties to Minnesota -- ultimately called off their engagement and announced their split in June 2022.
"I think I just knew it wasn't going to last... [Our relationship] started off rocky and ended rocky," Nayte shared on the "Bachelor Rush Hour With Dave Neal" podcast.
He revealed, "I was the one who broke up [with her]," referring to the phone conversation that ended their engagement close to Michelle's birthday]. "She definitely did not want to break up."
Nayte explained how he had felt pressure to be perfect since Michelle was a famous face and they were the new hot couple in Bachelor Nation at the time. Nayte also said there were trust issues on his part, citing an incident when Michelle had allegedly suspiciously deleted a DM conversation with a famous male country singer.
The Bachelorette 18 winner also shared last year how he wanted "more of a partner and less of a coach" in his next relationship.
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Nayte insisted he had never cheated on Michelle, but Michelle was admittedly blindsided by his choice to call it quits on their relationship.
Michelle, however, has also moved on from her broken engagement to Nayte. She went Instagram official with new boyfriend Jack Leius in October 2023, and they're now living together in Minnesota. Michelle has said she feels happy and at "home" with Jack.
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