After the finale of season 21 of The Bachelorette ended with Jenn Tran’s damaged engagement, followers need to season 20 couple Charity Lawson and Dotun Olubeko because the spinoff’s reigning love story. And whereas the twosome are nonetheless going robust, they aren’t speeding down the aisle.
“We’ve taken a pause on it and I’m completely high quality asserting that. I really feel like individuals ask on a regular basis, ‘How’s wedding ceremony planning? Or the place are we at?’” Charity, 28, informed Us Weekly throughout an unique interview with Kat Izzo. “For me, I received on this house the place I simply felt this fixed strain of, like, I must test off one thing each month or each week. And it received to the purpose the place I’m like, ‘I don’t wanna do this proper now.’ I’m additionally nonetheless simply easing into life and normalcy once more. Clearly, we’re nonetheless getting married. We’re taking a second, taking a beat.”
Charity added that Dotun, 30, “is so vocal, which I like.” She famous that her fiancé is targeted on a enjoyable reception — and the cake.
“It’s the flavour and the aesthetic [that he cares about], however I’m positively gonna have extra say of the aesthetic,” she defined. “However the taste, that’s the one factor he tells individuals. He’s like, ‘Me and Charity, we discovered the flavour of the cake.’ … I’m simply glad he’s concerned and he desires to have a say. It makes it enjoyable for me and for the each of us.”
Charity and Dotun received engaged on season 20 of The Bachelorette, which aired in summer time 2023. That fall, Charity competed on Dancing With the Stars — which is thought to check some Bachelor Nation {couples}. This season, Joey Graziadei, who received engaged to Kelsey Anderson on season 28 of The Bachelor, and newly single Jenn shall be within the ballroom.
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“[I would tell them] simply have enjoyable. I want for myself that I used to be capable of have much more enjoyable than I did,” Charity informed Us. “It begins off very enjoyable, however then when you get within the nitty gritty, it turns into actually onerous. It’s so much in your physique. Kat is aware of — it was so much emotionally for me [and] terrible mentally. So simply taking good care of your self the easiest way that you may, however, like, not forgetting it’s a contest present. There’s quite a lot of strain that shall be positioned on you. And I positively felt that for myself. I want I used to be capable of simply be like, ‘No matter occurs occurs. That’s high quality. I’m right here having a possibility of a lifetime and to not take that without any consideration.’”
Kat famous that she hopes Jenn — who revealed at her current finale that she was blindsided by remaining rose decide Devin Strader when he ended their engagement — makes use of the present as motivation “to only show to herself what she’s price [and] able to.”
“As a result of should you can undergo that and proper after [the split], like, you would do something,” she stated. “[And] I like to get revenge in my very own separate manner. I’d be like, ‘Have a look at what you’re lacking!’”
Charity Lawson and Dotun Olubeko. ABC/Christopher Willard
Joey, in the meantime, can have Kelsey’s help — and if Kelsey wants any assist, she will name Dotun.
“It’s so much. Clearly, Kelsey is aware of Dotun. She will attain out,” Charity stated. “For Dotun, he was working on the time, so I feel he additionally was capable of type of preserve himself occupied. It was like we each had full-time jobs after which we made the many of the little time that we did should have date nights and attempt to match that in. So truthfully for Kelsey, like, simply looking for these moments to attach with Joey as a lot as attainable. [And] I might simply inform her to not learn an excessive amount of into it. Be a supportive accomplice.”
Kat added: “I imply, Dotun was so nice. He was texting all of us, like, even my household ’trigger she received shut with my mother. [He had us make] a video for her for the finale.”
As Joey and Jenn take the ballroom, Charity and Kat are gearing as much as launch their new podcast, “Faucet In.”