Are Grant & Litia Still Together From The Bachelor? Where They Stand Now After Filming Ended
Jason Pham
Warning: The Bachelor Season 29 spoilers ahead. She’s been the frontrunner from the start, but are Grant and Litia still together from The Bachelor Season 29? Bachelor Nation fans may be shocked by how Grant’s season ended… and what happened next.
Litia Garr, a 31-year-old Venture Capitalist from Star Valley, Wyoming, was one of 25 contestants on The Bachelor Season 29 with Grant Ellis. Litia was the runner-up and not the winner of Grant’s Bachelor season, according to Reality Steve. His winner was Juliana Pasquarosa, a 28-year-old Client Service Associate from Newton, Massachusetts. According to Reality Steve, Grant gave his final rose to Juliana and proposed to her at the Final Rose Ceremony in The Bachelor Season 29 finale, and the two got engaged.
Grant’s ending may shock a majority of viewers—including Bachelor Nation alums like Charity Lawson and Joe Amabile—who saw Litia as his stronger connection. “In comparison to everyone else, I feel like the conversation, substance, the depth of it, it goes beyond surface level, and that is what I’m looking for as a viewer watching this,” Charity, the Season 20 Bachelorette, said in an interview on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast in March 2025. “Like, ‘OK, how can I distinguish between who potentially is going to possibly be or become the fiancé, the wife later down the road?’ I feel like their conversations of what is shown at least is telling us like, ‘OK, this is like solid material, like this is a strong relationship.’”
With the push for Grant and Litia to be together, Bachelor Nation fans are understandably hopeful for them to get back together now that filming is over. It’s happened before with Season 22 Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr. and runner-up Lauren Burnham, and Season 13 Bachelor Jason Mesnick and runner-up Molly Mesnick.
Are Grant and Litia back together from The Bachelor Season 29?
As of writing, Grant and Litia are not back together from The Bachelor season 29, and Grant is still engaged to Juliana. It also doesn’t look like Litia will be the next Bachelorette either. News broke in February 2025 that The Bachelorette was canceled for its usual time slot in 2025 following Season 21 with Jenn Tran.
According to Bachelor Nation alums Ashley Iaconetti and Ben Higgins, who host the “Almost Famous” podcast, the frontrunner to be the next Bachelorette was Maria Georgas, the fourth-place finalist on The Bachelor Season 28 with Joey Graziadei, who turned the role down, which led ABC to cancel the series for this year.
Ashley I. and Ben also reported that two contestants from Grant’s Bachelor season were also considered to be the next Bachelorette, though they didn’t list any names. It’s speculated by fans that Litia was one of those contestants based on how popular she was.
Fans also speculated before The Bachelor Season 29 finale that Litia’s popularity and connection with Grant may have led to behind-the-scenes issues between Grant and his winner, Juliana. In an interview with Us Weekly in January 2025, host Jesse Palmer addressed a moment in The Bachelor Season 29 trailer that suggested that Grant didn’t know who he would choose between his runner-up and winner until the last minute.
“It’s real,” Jesse said of the moment. “And I don’t know if you could tell from watching that from my reaction, [but] I was surprised. That was something that I haven’t encountered yet as the host in the last four years on any of the franchises. Normally, I think, our leads have a little bit more clarity — a lot more clarity — heading into the final day. And I really think that’s how conflicted Grant really was.”
He continued, “They’re phenomenal every year for whoever our lead is [and] making that decision on the final day is always a very, very difficult decision, but I can appreciate some of why Grant was so conflicted. I’ll just say that. But absolutely without giving away too much, that was authentic and it’s real and it’s not an edit.”
Grant, for his part, seemed to deny that he didn’t know who his winner would be until seconds before the Final Rose Ceremony in an interview with Us Weekly in March 2025 in which he claimed that he knew who he wanted to choose by Hometown Dates. “I, honestly, was 100 percent sure because that’s what I came there for. I knew I was going to make things work,” Grant said. “[It] definitely wasn’t [down to] one hour,” he said, explaining that the moment of indecision seen in the trailer was due to “external factors” and not necessarily wavering feelings for his winner. “I’ve always been a really decisive person in terms of my career and everything in that field. … In high school, I was a star athlete and had to decide what college I went to, what major,” he said.
After Grant’s interview, there was a popular fan theory that Grant wanted to choose Litia, who is Mormon, but decided against it due to their differences in religion and culture. “It’s clear he really like Litia but the Mormon/religion thing is stopping him from going all in. We’ll see how it plays out,” a user wrote on Reddit. Fans also speculated that the narrative that Grant was so close to choosing Litia may have affected his current relationship with Juliana.
It’s not uncommon for Bachelor or Bachelorette winners to feel hurt after learning how close a lead’s decision was between them and someone else. In an interview with People in 2017, Lauren Bushnell, who won The Bachelor Season 20 with Ben Higgins, opened up about the “hurt” she felt watching the finale and seeing her now-ex-fiance Ben profess his love for his runner-up before Lauren and Ben’s engagement. “I don’t think I’ve ever talked about how hurtful that was,” Lauren said. “I always try to be really strong because I wanted to move forward from it. But because I wanted to move forward from it, I don’t think I ever really opened up about how hard that was just in terms of, like, I wanted to make that decision to get engaged one time in my life and I felt like I wasn’t told everything that had happened.”
Lauren also confessed that what happened in the finale continued to affect her and Ben’s relationship for months to come. The two later split in May 2017. “When The Bachelor aired, reliving that months later wasn’t ideal either,” she said. “I was still like, ‘We’re going to move forward from this,’ but then the press, that’s what everybody wanted to talk about. I’ve never shared with anyone, except for Ben, how hurtful that situation was and how hard it is to continually talk about it over and over again when you’re trying to start a life with someone.”
She continued, “Looking back, I wish I could be like, ‘That’s why it didn’t work out,’ but I think it was just a very abnormal situation and one that unfortunately. I mean we tried.”
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