Breaking Down Bachelor’s Kaitlyn Bristowe’s Dating History After Her Split From Jason Tartick

Boyd Gordon

According to multiple outlets, Kaitlyn dated the then-Edmonton Oilers hockey player prior to finding fame The Bachelorette.

Trevor Partlo

The Dancing With the Stars ​champ was dating a Vancouver firefighter just before filming The Bachelorette. Several publications questioned whether or not they were still a couple when ​Kaitlyn appeared on the ABC hit.

Shawn Booth

The Connecticut native received Kaitlyn’s final rose on the season 11 finale of The Bachelorette, as Kaitlyn accepted his romantic proposal.

From the very beginning, the dance teacher said she knew Shawn was the one for her. “I actually thought I knew night one and I just hoped from that moment on. I think I made the mistake of admitting it was him from night one [to producers],” she said in a 2017 interview, adding, “I said right away, ‘Game over. It’s that guy, no questions.’”

Shawn revealed in 2018 that the couple was in no rush to get married, explaining, “We have our own stride with how we want to take our relationship from the show out into the real world and it really has been an adjustment. But we’ve always been on the same page. We click like that. We’ve been normal and want to keep that normalcy.” The pair broke up later that year, announcing in a joint statement that they had “evolved as people, which is taking us in different directions.”

Jason Tartick

The banker competed for Becca Kufrin‘s love on season 14 of The Bachelorette but was sent home in week nine. One woman’s loss was another’s gain, as Kaitlyn fell for Jason after he appeared on an episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast shortly after her split from Shawn. In January 2019, the pair were photographed going out on several dates and made their relationship Instagram official on Valentine’s Day.

Their whirlwind romance saw Kaitlyn and Jason move in together in June 2019, and created a furry family by adopting two golden retrievers. She told Life & Style exclusively in October 2020 that they would likely get married, and that Jason would take the lead in wedding planning.

“He’s a good planner. I’m terrible at all that stuff,” she admitted. “We’ve talked about [location]. It’s so funny because he’s so proud of where he comes from and he genuinely wants to get married in Buffalo, New York, where he’s from with all our family and friends so we’ll see. I’m not against anything,” she revealed.

Jason popped the question in May 2021, presenting his new fiancée with a 5-carat, oval-shaped diamond set on a gold band. At the time Kaitlyn gushed, “It was everything I could have asked for,” about his proposal. By October 2022, things were still moving slowly when it came to walking down the aisle, as she revealed, “We need the venue and date first. We are both kind of stressed out to be honest with you.”

Kaitlyn and Jason broke off their engagement, though, and split in August 2023.

Zac Clark

Fans first speculated that Kaitlyn and Zac were dating after they were seen looking cozy in a video from New Year’s Eve on December 31, 2023. Subsequent sightings fueled the rumors, but the reality stars did not publicly comment on the buzz. In July 2024, she admitted that she was seeing someone who lived in another city, but said they were not exclusive or planning to move to each other’s city anytime soon.

Right off the bat, Kaitlyn and Zac’s apparent relationship turned heads, as he was previously engaged to Tayshia Adams, who Kaitlyn cohosted The Bachelorette with for two seasons in 2021.

In an August 2024 interview, Kaitlyn seemingly hinted that Tayshia was pissed about her new romance. “I went on a date with somebody from the franchise and I reached out to the girl that he used to be with,” she shared, without naming names. “[I was] thinking it would be a situation where they’d go, ‘I mean, I don’t love it, but I’m not going to say don’t.’ It was not.”

She explained that she thought the other woman wouldn’t have a problem with the situation because she “seem[ed] very happy” in her own new relationship. “She was very upset,” Kaitlyn admitted. “She said, ‘I always knew you were a bad person and you’ve confirmed it, so your true colors are showing.’ And then I hung up and went, ‘Well, now I just want to send her a picture of me sucking his d–k.”