Are The Ultimatum’s Vanessa & Dave Still Together After Nick Drama? The Huge Update
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On is the latest in a string of Netflix reality TV dating shows to premiere a new season. But it’s not one that’s meant to help people find their perfect partner. Instead, it’s one that’s meant to help people figure out if they already have the perfect partner—and if they can keep them. To do that, the show focuses on couples in which one partner is ready to get married, but the other one isn’t ready for that commitment yet.
Enter drama. How? Easy, the show has the couples break up and proceed to date other people—chosen from the other couples also in the experiment—until they are ultimately matched up for a “trial marriage” for three weeks. After those three weeks, everyone goes back to their official partner for an additional three weeks, so they can compare the experience. Then, it’s decision time. Will the couples get married, break up, or do they want to try dating the person from their “trial marriage”?
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If the show sounds even more dramatic than Love is Blind and Too Hot to Handle, it’s because, at times, it is. Season 3 has proven to be right up there in the drama department, with the first four episodes released on Netflix giving us two couples who already decided the competition wasn’t for them: Chanel and Micah and Vanessa and Dave.
But why did Vanessa and Dave leave The Ultimatum? And, are Vanessa and Dave from The Ultimatum Season 3 still together? Here’s everything we know.
Are Vanessa and Dave still together from The Ultimatum Season 3?
The answer to the question is yes, as the show’s reunion episode confirmed. Even though the two left the show early, all contestants who featured in the season are invited to the reunion, and Vanessa and Dave appeared to set the record straight on why they left the show early, with Vanessa explaining she felt “uncomfortable” due to some conversations she had with Nick and lies he allegedly told, along with the unresolved “trauma” he had in his life.
“The first day living with you, it was like I rode 15 rollercoasters with you and I don’t know anyone that would’ve wanted to stay in that,” Vanessa said and added that she left the experiment without giving Nick a heads up because she didn’t owe him anything. She’d previously said on social media, “I know I just had to do what was best for my mental health,” and added, “You’re only seeing 1%.”
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During the reunion, both Vanessa and Dave also spoke about how their time on the experiment, as brief as it was, helped them see that they were actually on the same page. “It did help us progress in many different ways,” Vanessa said. Dave, for his part, said, “It was very enlightening for both of us to see that we were aligned… I am still 100% wanting to marry Vanessa and that is the clear next step.”
Not just that, the two added that they went ring shopping recently, and a proposal is coming “soon.”
