{"id":263801,"date":"2018-12-18T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/bachelor-in-paradises-astrid-loch-officially-moves-to-canada-for-kevin-wendt\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:36:15","slug":"bachelor-in-paradises-astrid-loch-officially-moves-to-canada-for-kevin-wendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/bachelor-in-paradises-astrid-loch-officially-moves-to-canada-for-kevin-wendt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor in Paradise&#8217;s Astrid Loch Officially Moves to Canada for Kevin Wendt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181118\/rs_600x600-181218163307-600-astrid-loch-kevin-wendt.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.171324422843\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.311057108141\">\n<p><strong>Astrid Loch<\/strong>, will you accept this <s>rose\u00a0<\/s>\u00a0house key?<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Bachelor in Paradise<\/em> star announced\u00a0on Tuesday that she was officially\u00a0packing her bags and moving across the border to Canada to be with her boyfriend, <strong>Kevin Wendt<\/strong>. Pretty cute, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Loch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bri5QhCH-X7\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted a photo on Instagram<\/a> that showed her closing a storage box (also called a POD) and opening a new chapter in her life with her firefighter beau. &#8220;This summer I took a chance, quit my job, and packed up my apartment,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;6 months later this PODS storage box and I are getting shipped to Canada. Hope you&#8217;re ready for me and all my stuff\u00a0@kevin.c.wendt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another picture in her Instagram Story showed Loch making a face with what looked like a chair or desk in the back seat. She captioned it, &#8220;Current situation&#8230; @kevin.c.wendt told me I needed to downsize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.938775510204\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.0816326530612\">\n<p>Loch has apparently been spending an abundant amount of time in Toronto.\u00a0They both share lots of cute photos on Instagram of the two of them together doing various couple-y things, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bq_BUktBFSn\/\" target=\"_blank\">buying a Christmas tree<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BplBv61H-Ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">attending hockey games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.211129296236\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.404255319149\">\n<p>Moving in together seemed like the next logical step, especially after their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/983604\/bachelor-in-paradise-s-kevin-wendt-and-astrid-loch-just-took-a-big-step-in-their-relationship\" target=\"_blank\">families met for the first time<\/a> in November at an event in Toronto. Their rep confirmed at the event that Loch would be relocating in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>The couple first connected on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/958707\/the-shadiest-bachelor-nation-comments-about-bachelor-in-paradise-season-5\" target=\"_blank\">Season 5 of\u00a0<em>Bachelor in Paradise<\/em><\/a>, which was a season filled with makeups, breakups and lots of drinks. At one point in the show, there were teasers that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/966454\/are-bachelor-in-paradise-s-kevin-and-astrid-breaking-up\" target=\"_blank\">could be heading for a split<\/a>, but they proved fans wrong and emerged as one of the strongest couples in\u00a0<em>Paradise\u00a0<\/em>and Bachelor Nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Wendt became a hero of sorts during the most recent season of\u00a0<em>Paradise<\/em>\u00a0because he spoke openly and at length about going to therapy and his personal struggles with anxiety. &#8220;We all have issues we battle with daily,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevin_c_wendt\/status\/1034251997489389568\" target=\"_blank\">he tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 27. Fans praised him for not fearing any taboos associated with talking about mental health and called him courageous, &#8220;a sweetheart&#8221; and &#8220;one of the new normal guys on the show.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loch vied for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nick_viall\">Nick Viall<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s heart on his season of\u00a0<em>The Bachelor<\/em>\u00a0and Wendt rose to more Bachelor Nation fame during his appearance on\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Bachelor Winter Games<\/em>. He and\u00a0<strong>Ashley Iaconetti<\/strong>\u00a0were an item on the show, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/920225\/the-bachelor-winter-games-winners-ashley-iaconetti-and-kevin-wendt-split\" target=\"_blank\">then split<\/a>\u00a0in March.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Congratulations on the big step, Astrid and Kevin!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997836\/bachelor-in-paradise-s-astrid-loch-officially-moves-to-canada-for-kevin-wendt?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrid Loch, will you accept this rose\u00a0\u00a0house key? The\u00a0Bachelor in Paradise star announced\u00a0on Tuesday that she was officially\u00a0packing her bags and moving across the border to Canada to be with her boyfriend, Kevin Wendt. Pretty cute, eh? Loch posted a photo on Instagram that showed her closing a storage box (also called a POD) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:55:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}