The Bachelorette alum Katie Thurston and her new boyfriend John Hersey recently reunited with Katie's Season 17 frontrunner, single dad Michael Allio.
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Katie, 30, joked on her Instagram Stories in a Thursday post that she was "on a group date," according to Us Weekly, and uploaded a photo of her meal at Sunset Monalisa in Mexico.
Katie, John and Michael were also reportedly joined by Season 15 The Bachelorette alum Luke Stone as well as other members of Bachelor Nation.
"This feels like a nightmare," Katie teased alongside footage of her goofing around in a hotel room with John and Michael after a fun night out.
Meanwhile, John reportedly shared a selfie of the trio, who were all smiling big while on the vacation.
Last week, Michael posted a selfie while he was getting a tan in Loreto, Baja California Sur, and he captioned the image, "Off the grid." Based on his hashtags, he was apparently enjoying the relaxation and attending a destination wedding.
It's unclear if Katie and John attended the same wedding, but Katie revealed on January 4 that she and John were spending her entire "birthday week" in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Katie has since posted photos of herself posing in a bikini, sipping on an espresso martini, and sitting on John's lap "getting that vitamin sea and vitamin D."
While John only lasted two weeks on The Bachelorette season in early 2021, Michael made it all the way to hometown dates and Katie seemed to care about him immensely.
However, Michael -- who made fans swoon as a widower who said it would be a blessing and unique opportunity to fall in love twice -- decided to quit the competition and leave Katie prematurely because his four-year-old son James had been missing him terribly while they filmed in New Mexico.
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RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWMichael has been raising James on his own, with the help of his beloved parents and in-laws, ever since his college sweetheart and late wife Laura Ritter-Allio died from breast cancer in January 2019.
Katie ultimately selected Blake Moynes as her Season 17 winner and the couple got engaged, but Michael admitted on The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All special he still had feelings for Katie and would date her again in a heartbeat. He also proceeded to leave her flirty comments on Instagram.
Katie and Blake openly gushed about their love after the show, but they announced their breakup in late October 2021 after six months of dating. Katie suggested Blake was unable to make her happy and they fought too much.
Katie and John went Instagram official with their relationship on November 23, only three short weeks after Katie and Blake announced they had decided to end their engagement.
Katie subsequently faced backlash for moving on from Blake too quickly with a "rebound," and many The Bachelorette fans were upset with Katie for not warning Blake about her new relationship before telling the world about it.
Blake admitted in a November 2021 appearance on the "Talking It Out with Bachelor Nation" podcast that he had been "flabbergasted," shocked and "speechless" to learn about Katie's romance with John.
Blake also believed Katie must have been emotionally cheating on him with John in order to have moved on so quickly from their relationship, but John firmly denied that was the case in a lengthy Reddit statement.
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The former bank marketing manager from Washington added, "We're not holding back for anybody... We're in the honeymoon phase right now. He was my best friend before, so I think that's what makes it, honestly, the best."
John wrote on Instagram in December how he's "in awe of" and "extremely grateful" for the circumstances that brought Katie to him.
"Thank goodness you dumped me on national television, or else we could have never gotten to where we are now," John joked at the time.
Michael, for his part, recently sparked dating speculation with Dancing with the Stars alum and talk show co-host Amanda Kloots.
The pair met up at a restaurant in December, but it appears nothing romantic ever came of the night out. While Amanda, 39, reportedly said she and Michael had an "immediate" connection as single parents, it appears they are not dating.
Amanda shares a two-year-old son, Elvis, with her late husband, Nick Cordero, who died in July 2020, according to Us.
"We are both from Ohio, have little boys and [have] been through a very hard time in life," Amanda recently told the magazine. "We have each other's back."
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