{"id":290154,"date":"2020-03-28T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1135506"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:42:00","slug":"the-bachelors-ben-higgins-is-engaged-to-jessica-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-bachelors-ben-higgins-is-engaged-to-jessica-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bachelor’s Ben Higgins Is Engaged to Jessica Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Get ready for another post-Bachelor<\/em> wedding!<\/p>\n

Ben Higgins<\/a><\/strong>, the star of the show’s 20th season, is engaged to girlfriend<\/a> Jessica Clarke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“I don’t remember everything you said, but I know that I said yesInstagram post, alongside an image of the moment Ben got down on one knee. “I woke up in a dream today and I get to live in this dream every day from now on (eeeep).”<\/p>\n

Additionally, the former ABC lead confirmed the engagement news and shared details of the magical moment he proposed to Entertainment Tonight<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

“I went back to a pond behind her house, and we had set it up with sunflowers near a bench. It’s right in their backyard, but a little hidden,” he said. “I proposed and her family and mine were watching from a distance, and then we all celebrated together.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I was super nervous. She’s my best friend, my partner and I love her. I was nervous to kind of do this whole thing in front of her. I wasn’t anxious, it’s just a big moment!”<\/p>\n

The news of the couple’s engagement comes more than two years after he and The Bachelor<\/em> winner Lauren Bushnell<\/strong> broke up<\/a> and ended their one-year engagement.<\/p>\n

Higgins, 31, and Clarke, 24, made their relationship Instagram official<\/a> in February 2019.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He said that he “successfully slid into her DM’s” while visiting Nashville several months prior.<\/p>\n

He was searching through Instagram to see which NHL team the Predators were taking on, and came across a photo of the recent University of Mississippi grad at the game with her dad.<\/p>\n

“I saw this picture and I said, ‘Holy cow. This girl is gorgeous,'” said on his and fellow Bachelor Nation star Ashley Iaconetti Haibon<\/strong>‘s iHeartRadio Almost Famous<\/em> podcast soon after making his relationship public.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He said in a joint interview withSadie Robertson<\/a><\/strong> in November 2019<\/a> that he took a screenshot of her photo and then waited until Thanksgiving to slide into her DM’s.<\/p>\n

“I said something along the lines of, ‘Don’t ask too much about how I saw your profile,” he had said on his podcast. “I can explain later but if you’re single, please message back.'”<\/p>\n

The Bachelor<\/em> star had told the outlet<\/a> in late January that he was “definitely” going to propose to his girlfriend at some point before the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I don’t think that’s a question,” he said. “We’re great. It’s fun. It’s just healthy…I think she would say the same. Our relationship is healthy. I’m a better version of myself, a more free version of myself than I’ve been in a while.”<\/p>\n

Congrats to the couple!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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