This Fall's Hottest Accessory Is a 'Bachelorette' Boyfriend

Rose Minutaglio
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Photo credit: Hearst Owned

From ELLE

Teeny-tiny bags are in, everything is coming up millennial purple, and cinched suiting is flooding the New York Fashion Week runways. But the hottest new accessory—one supermodels and singers alike can't get enough of—is a former The Bachelorette contestant on your arm.

Gigi Hadid kicked off the reality-star-romance trend back in early August, when she was spotted with general contractor Tyler Cameron aka Tyler C. from Hannah Brown's season. They’ve since been on several dates, including a vacation upstate with friends and a more somber outing to the funeral of Hadid's grandmother. Though Hadid has yet to call Cameron her boyfriend, it must be getting pretty serious: She introduced him to pal Serena Williams, plus Bella just officially followed him on Instagram.

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Photo credit: Raymond Hall - Getty Images
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Demi Lovato could be following suit. The singer has enraptured people with her flirty back-and-forths via Instagram with The Bachelorette fan-favorite "Big Mike" Mike Johnson, also from Brown's season.

When Lovato uploaded a totally unedited photo of herself in a leopard-print bikini on Thursday, eagle-eyed followers noticed Johnson was quick to comment: “Look at me like that again 😏," he wrote, "love yaself🙌🏽"

Lovato responded with a kissy and tongue-sticking-out emoji, catapulting fans into a compete shipping-tizzy. "we ship! we ship! we ship!" commented on fan on the snap.

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This is my biggest fear. A photo of me in a bikini unedited. And guess what, it’s CELLULIT!!!! I’m just literally sooooo tired of being ashamed of my body, editing it (yes the other bikini pics were edited - and I hate that I did that but it’s the truth) so that others think I’m THEIR idea of what beautiful is, but it’s just not me. This is what I got. I want this new chapter in my life to be about being authentic to who I am rather than trying to meet someone else’s standards. So here’s me, unashamed, unafraid and proud to own a body that has fought through so much and will continue to amaze me when I hopefully give birth one day. It’s such a great feeling to be back in tv/film while not stressing myself with a strenuous workout schedule before 14 hour days, or depriving myself from a real birthday cake rather than opting for watermelon & whip cream with candles because I was terrified of REAL cake and was miserable on some crazy diet shit. Anyway, here’s me, RAW, REAL! And I love me. And you should love you too! Now back to the studio.. I’m working on an anthem.. 🙏🏼🙌🏼🤷🏻♀️ also. Just so everyone’s clear.. I’m not stoked on my appearance BUT I am appreciative of it and sometimes that’s the best I can do. I hope to inspire someone to appreciate their body today too. 💗 #nationalcelulliteday #celluLIT 🔥🔥🔥

A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) on Sep 5, 2019 at 5:30pm PDT

And, if Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams are any indication, dating someone from Bachelor Nation can actually work out in the end. The Modern Family star got engaged to Adams, who appeared on JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette, back in July. Their relationship started after they exchanged flirty tweets back in 2016.

"I'm so glad that he did The Bachelorette because it’s almost like relationship boot camp," Hyland told ET. "It makes you open up faster, makes you more vulnerable to where you get to the really heavy shit. Whereas normally that would take you, like, six months to get into. And then once you get to that point you’re like, 'Oh fuck. This isn’t working anymore and it’s a waste of six months.' So my advice [is] trust the process. Isn’t that what they say on The Bachelor?"

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Photo credit: Kevin Mazur/Fox - Getty Images

Other celebs have been romantically linked to contestants from the ABC franchise, including gold medalist Aly Raisman, who dated Colton Underwood. After they broke up, he went on Becca Kufrin's season, and eventually became the bachelor himself.

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Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS - Getty Images

In 2017, Lauren Bushnell and bachelor Ben Higgins called off their engagement. She started dating country singer Chris Lane—and the two are now engaged.

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I can’t stop smiling 😭 I feel so incredibly blessed that every misstep, mistake and heartache has led me to you. I couldn’t be happier to call you mine, forever. The journey was well worth it. Thank you Christopher Eric Lane for softening my heart and making it whole. Never going to stop telling you how much I love you and I will hold onto you forever and ever! Lauren Lane has a nice ring to it 💍 PS he wrote me a song 😭 I linked in my bio for y’all. I can’t stop listening or looking down at my hand 😍 thanks @people for covering 💕

A post shared by Lauren Bushnell (@laurenbushnell) on Jun 18, 2019 at 10:08am PDT

Apparently dating The Bachelor and The Bachelorette contestants was also a big thing back in 2013. That year, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel dated "free spirit" Lucy Aragon from Juan Pablo Galavis' season, and bachelor Ben Flajnik was linked to Kris Jenner. Everything old is new again!

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