The Ultimatum is a dating reality show on Netflix created by the same people who made the streaming service’s Love Is Blind. The reality show is centered couples who have given their partners an ultimatum: either get married or break up. During the show, couples split up and spend time with someone new. They then return to their original relationships and decide if they are going to leave engaged, single, or with someone new.
The first season of the show dropped on Netflix in April 2022. The reality show promised drama, and it delivered, and fans loved watching the couples discover if they were right for each other. A second season has been confirmed and will be coming to Netflix. Now that the season has long since ended, fans are curious where the couples stand today. Here is what the cast of The Ultimatum’s season 1 is doing.
8 Alexis Maloney And Hunter Parr Moved To Los Angeles
Alexis Maloney and Hunter Parr appeared briefly on the first season of Netflix’s The Ultimatum, which will have a second season. Maloney had issued the ultimatum to Parr and the two attempted to date other people while on the dating reality show. Before settling in to the experiment and moving in with a new partner, however, Parr had a change of heart. He could not imagine being with anyone other than Maloney and proposed to her on the spot.
After leaving the show, Maloney and Parr moved to sunny Los Angeles to start the new chapter of their lives together. The two tied the knot in an elaborate ceremony at the Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes, California in June 2022. Their wedding party included ten bridesmaids and ten groomsmen.
7 What Lauren Pounds And Nathan Ruggles Had To Say About Netflix’s The Ultimatum
While on Netflix’s The Ultimatum, couple Lauren Pounds and Nathan Ruggles were not portrayed in a positive light. They, like Alexis Maloney and Hunter Parr, also left the dating reality show before the trial marriages actually took place. Their decision was based on how uncomfortable producers of The Ultimatum made them. Pounds and Ruggles spoke on Your Poor Dad podcast about their experience on the Netflix show.
They were unaware of the structure of the show before filming began. Ruggles was also told to give Pounds an ultimatum in order to be on the show, meaning the dispute over marriage-or-breakup was not the couple’s decision at all. They chose to leave the show and have since sought couple’s counseling to resolve their issues. Ruggles and Pounds have decided to have one kid in the future and got married in October 2022.
6 Madlyn Ballatori And Colby Kissinger Are Parents
One of the few couples in which the man proposed the marriage ultimate was Madlyn Ballatori and Colby Kissinger. They both had trial marriages on The Ultimatum with new partners, but at the end of the day, Ballatori and Kissinger decided they were meant to be together. Not only did they get engaged at the end of the experiment, but they also were married on the spot. Ballatori later revealed that she had never wanted a big wedding, so their private ceremony was perfect.
Since The Ultimatum and getting married, Ballatori and Kissinger have become parents. The couple announced the pregnancy of their first child during the show’s reunion special in April 2022. After giving birth to their child, Ballatori and Kissinger were ready to keep expanding their family. Ballatori announced on her social media in late January 2023 that she is pregnant with their second child. Her due date is in September 2023.
5 Are Shanique Imari And Randall Griffin Still Together?
At the end of Netflix’s The Ultimatum season one, Shanique Imari and Randall Griffin got engaged. Imari was very nervous going into the final day because she knew Griffin had been connecting with someone else. She was surprised that he got down on one knee, but she said yes to the proposal.
Directly after the show ended filming, however, Imari and Griffin broke up. It was difficult for the couple to transition back into their regular lives together. After six months apart, Imari and Griffin reunited and have been together ever since. However, the couple chose to put their engagement on pause. They want to spend time together without the pressure of an engagement ring and upcoming wedding, and they are still very much in love.
4 Zay Wilson Is Single
Zay Wilson came into The Ultimatum with Rae Williams. Though they, like every other couple on the show, intended to leave together stronger than ever, Williams found herself connecting very strongly to her new partner Jake Cunningham. While Williams and Cunningham connected, Wilson had a trial marriage with Shanique Imari.
Wilson and Williams did not leave The Ultimatum together. The drama between the ex-couple continued after filming wrapped, as Wilson had not given Williams any information about his time with Imari. “He is blocked on everything. I think that he should have, you know, given me more of a heads-up,” Williams said in reference to his relationship with Imari. “No apology, no reaching out. No, ‘I’m sorry that you had to see it this way.’ Nothing remorseful coming from him, we have not spoken.” Wilson is currently single following the events of The Ultimatum, but did join Netlfix's reality dating show Perfect Match for another shot at love.
3 Who Is April Marie Melhoun Dating?
April Marie Melhoun is another contestant from Netflix’s The Ultimatum who walked away from the dating reality show single. She entered the experiment with Jake Cunningham, but after he connected with new partner Rae Williams, he was unable to continue having a relationship with Melhoun. Though she left heartbroken, Marie has been living her best life since walking away from The Ultimatum.
Since filming wrapped, Melhoun founded her own company centered around clothing rental called Evelyn & Avery. She also started seeing realtor Cody Cooper in October 2021, which was only a few months after her two-year relationship with Cunningham came to an end. Madlyn Ballatori is also not the only member from The Ultimatum cast who is currently pregnant. Melhoun announced on Instagram in February 2023 that she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Cooper.
2 Are Jake Cunningham And Rae Williams Together?
The biggest drama of the first season of Netflix’s dating reality show The Ultimatum was certainly the relationship between Jake Cunningham and Rae Williams. They both came into the experiment with other people, but after meeting on the show, Cunningham and Williams began living together in a trial marriage. While many couples who were undergoing trial marriages with new partners had a level of connection, Cunningham and Williams truly developed feelings for each other.
At the end of The Ultimatum, Cunningham asked Williams to go on a trip with him to further explore their connections. Fans were upset to learn during the reunion episode in April 2022 that the trip never happened. Cunningham and Williams chose not to be in a relationship, but they do care very deeply for each other and are very close.
1 Rae Williams Came Out As Bisexual
One of the bigger revelations of the reunion episode of The Ultimatum, which aired on Netflix in April 2022, was that Rae Williams was not single. She had entered the dating reality show with boyfriend Zay Wilson, but by the end of the show Williams left with new partner Jake Cunningham. The reunion special revealed that Williams and Cunningham never began a relationship following the show, but Williams was not single anymore.
Williams revealed that she was dating a woman. Though her partners Wilson and Cunningham had known about her sexuality, she had not disclosed that she is bisexual to the public. At the time of the reunion, Williams was seeing a mystery-woman, but they have since parted ways.
