Bachelor Nation took over the NFL with a dual meet.
Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert attended the Kansas City Chiefs game on Friday, Nov. 29 to watch them defeat the Las Vegas Raiders 19-17 — with friends from Bachelor Nation. The Bachelor in Paradise the couple was joined by a former Bachelorette Michelle Young and her boyfriend Jack Lewis.
“A Chiefs win, a heartwarming Hallmark Channel holiday movie and time with friends,” Roper, 37, captioned an Instagram post on Monday, Dec. 2. “It doesn’t get any better than that!”
She included a selfie taken by Young, 31, that included both couples. Tolbert, 37, also posted a photo of the foursome on social media, which Young shared on her own Instagram story.
Momodu Mansaray/Getty Images Michelle Young couldn’t resist a good pun when it came time to get off to a rocky start in her new relationship with Jack Leys. “Hit the jackpot with you,” the former Bachelorette, 30, wrote via Instagram on Friday, Oct. 27, sharing gorgeous photos of the pair dressed up in full. In the photos, Young stunned in (…)
A day later, Roper and Tolbert also attended Hallmark’s premiere Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Storywhich premiered on November 30, Saturday.
“We had a lot of Hallmark moments,” Young wrote in a recap of her weekend, which included videos of her and Leys, along with Roper and Tolbert, at the game.
Young first teased her relationship with Leyus in October 2023, more than a year after she and her ex-fiancé Naite Olukoya called off their engagement in June 2022
The former Bachelorette star was actually at a Chiefs game when she first posted a photo of Leius kisses her cheek. (How far have they come!)
Young their relationship got off to a rocky start in October 2023, showing her new man’s face for the first time, but waited a few months before sharing details about how they first met.
“She has a good friend, and her friend has a younger brother that I know, and her friend’s younger brother posted Michelle on his (Instagram) story, and so I just hit him a few times,” Leyus said during an episode of podcast “Almost Famous” last January. “Like, ‘Hey man, when are you going to introduce me to Michelle?’
Michelle Young wasn’t sure she’d find a partner back home in Minnesota, but that was before a mutual friend introduced her to boyfriend Jack Leys. “We went through devastating breakups (and) we were in the same stage of our breakup where we were going from ‘I’m not ready to meet someone’ (to) ‘I’m ready to meet someone’ (…)
He was “really serious” about getting to know her, but Young wasn’t privy to what was going on behind the scenes.
“I was with my little brother and my friend and we were just talking,” she said during the same podcast episode. “I said, ‘I have no idea how I’m supposed to meet my man in Minnesota. Like, (he’s) definitely not in Minnesota right now. I need to start traveling more because they’re not in the apps!’”
The idea of Lay was brought up – and Young was intrigued.
“I think we spent the next four days together,” he recalls. “And we dated until Sunday.”
