Bachelor’s Prick Viall and Natalie Joy’s Relationship Timeline

After two seasons of The Bachelorette and his delight in season of The Bachelor, Prick Viall has came upon worship with Natalie Joy.

The “Viall Files” host and surgical technologist had been first linked by followers in 2019, but speculation about their relationship didn’t originate heating up except 2020. In February 2021, right now after the pair first went public as a pair, Viall admitted that they met after Joy slid into his Instagram DMs.

“It used to be very romantic,” he joked in some unspecified time in the future of an episode of his podcast. “We roughly kept hanging out, and she in the waste got to a point the set she used to be fancy, ‘I want to this point,’ and I used to be roughly fancy, ‘I don’t know.’ … She correct used to be fancy, ‘OK, right here’s what I desire. It’s honest, no wide deal, but I’m gonna chase blueprint my thing,’ and she did, and I used to be fancy, ‘What?!’ … She went and showed me precisely what I’d be lacking.”

The extinct actuality superstar has a historical past of sliding into DMs himself, revealing final year that he once messaged Olivia Munn. “I wasn’t waiting for her to acknowledge,” he recalled in some unspecified time in the future of an April 2020 episode of Hannah Berner’s podcast. “It used to be Novel 300 and sixty five days’s Day and I simply correct acknowledged, ‘I’m aiming high this year.’”

He moreover went on about a dates with January Jones after she had publicly dissed him by social media. “Then Prick slid into my DMs, and he’s fancy, ‘I’m so sorry that your perception of me is so negative. I’d assign conclude to eliminate you out to espresso and plight if I will change your thoughts,'” she told Dax Shepard in January 2020. “And I squealed! I used to be fancy, ‘Oh, my God.’ … I used to be fancy, ‘I abominate that guy!’”

The Indignant Men actress acknowledged the pair went on a “couple” of dates earlier than things frail out, seemingly because she spent most of their time together asking him questions about The Bachelor. “All I did used to be grill him about the disguise,” she acknowledged. “But I got a wide array of juicy insights.”

Viall’s DM success price looks to hold increased with Joy, who first made their relationship Instagram official in January 2021.

“Their relationship is terribly precise,” a supply told Us Weekly in February 2021. “They’ve been relationship for the reason that beginning of COVID but hold correct started going public. They’re soft noteworthy inseparable. You would possibly maybe maybe reveal she nearly lives with him because she’s at his house that noteworthy.”

Abet scrolling to see the stout timeline of Viall and Joy’s romance:

Correct by an episode of her “Nearly Neatly-known” podcast, Ashley Iaconetti hinted that she knew Viall used to be relationship someone who wasn’t half of Bachelor Nation. “I hold a theory but if he hasn’t acknowledged something else about who it’s then I’m no longer asserting something else,” the Bachelor in Paradise alum acknowledged at the time.

Several months earlier than the couple went public, Joy posted a chain of photos by Instagram with the caption, “Happiest I’ve eva been.”

The pair wore coordinating Halloween costumes — Superman for him, Lois Lane for her — but never shared any photos of themselves together. “Fingers crossed I see Superman tonight,” the Georgia native captioned an Instagram photograph of herself dressed as Lois.

The duo went Instagram official when Joy posted an Instagram Myth of herself attempting to kiss Viall as he performed a on-line recreation utilizing digital actuality goggles. “You are freaking me out,” he told her in the exquisite clip.  

On Valentine’s Day, the Wisconsin native shared a photograph of the couple wearing plaid jackets. “Whenever you’re no longer willing to save on matching outfits you’re no longer truly in worship,” he wrote by Instagram.

The couple made their awards disguise debut at the Golden Globes, the set Viall hosted the official preshow.

Viall commemorated World Females’s Day by posting an Instagram photograph of his worship. “Females endure so noteworthy, least of all, laughing at the boring things we men reveal,” he wrote. “Happy #internationalwomensday to your total unbelievable females available.”

The Dancing With the Stars alum shared a photograph from the twosome’s Hawaii vacation with the caption, “Sizzling girl summer.”

The pair walked the red carpet at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, which in 2021 debuted Unscripted, a 2nd night of awards devoted to actuality TV.  

“In truth gratified,” Viall wrote by Instagram, captioning a photograph of the duo playing a day at the seaside.

The couple kicked off the summer marriage ceremony season by jetting off to Mexico together. “I doubted his dance strikes and used to be completely showed up,” Joy captioned a sundown photograph along with her man. Viall, for his half, joked, “This relationship has escalated to weddings.”

Viall teased that he’s now a “family man” when introducing followers to his and Joy’s recent pet, Jeff.

“Celebrating 1 year ish, by visiting the hotel the set it started,” the actuality superstar wrote by Instagram at the Williamsburg Hotel in Novel York City. “Grateful for every moment I hold with you @nnataliejjoy❤️.”

Viall revealed on Dear Media’s “No longer Skinny But No longer Chubby” podcast that after his split from Vanessa Grimaldi, he “made a aware resolution to no longer in any manner, form or kill, romantically or otherwise, be enthusiastic with someone from Bachelor Nation.”

He added, “Some of us would dangle out and be fancy, ‘I ponder we are in a position to also fair mute occasion.’ And I am fancy, ‘Listen, you appear big, but I actually blueprint no longer date someone in Bachelor Nation.'”

Joy gushed about Viall on his Forty first birthday in September 2021.

“This man!!!! you’re one among among the finest ones and someone who’s met you knows it too. I am so lucky to no longer most effective half this life with you but to fancy you, and to be loved by you,” she gushed. “You flipped my whole world the other intention up and given each dream and just a recent which intention and motive. your sense of humor, honesty, generosity, talent, creativity, drive, coronary heart and passion correct blows my thoughts. cherishing your existence forever!! you creep each single fariytale [SIC] to shreds. gratified birthday little one i fancy you fancy nothing else!!”

In the feedback half, Viall thanked his worship, writing, “Thanks for liking me. Love you ❤️❤️.”

“The band didn’t play ‘Single Girls,’ but it didn’t dwell everybody from singing, ‘Whenever you fancy it then you definately better save a hoop on it’ to me,” Viall captioned a chain of romantic snaps by Instagram with Joy at Ben Higgins’ marriage ceremony.

The duo spent Thanksgiving in Savannah, Georgia. “I too got my peach in Georgia,” Viall quipped in an Instagram caption.

“Celebrating you has been among the finest half of my life #nationalwomensday,” Viall wrote by Instagram, honoring his female friend on Nationwide Females’s Day.

Joy commented on the photograph, “Without a waste in sight grateful for your existence  I fancy you.”

The pair attended the MTV Movie & TV Awards one year after making their red carpet debut at the tournament.

Correct by an episode of “The Viall Files” podcast, Joy defended her boyfriend in response to Katie Thurston’s feedback about him.

“It truly got me when I secure tagged in a exquisite little TikTok reel on Instagram of Ms. Katie Thurston speaking about Prick. I watch it and I used to be correct very at a loss for phrases because [it starts off] with someone asking, ‘Why does Prick Viall abominate you?’ And he or she says, ‘Prick Viall is blocked from my mobile phone.’ Enjoy she has some vogue of motive to block Prick,” the model explained at the time. “I do know for a undeniable fact that Prick has most effective ever tried to abet her and gives her advice. Which she has never taken.”

The Maryland native added: “I ponder she is platforming a lie, and I ponder we’d like to disguise the fact.”

“I am very grateful for the connection I hold with Natalie,” the podcaster exclusively told Us, noting that he didn’t feel forced to pop the ask. “[I’m] truly indignant [about] the route it’s going and the tempo whereby it’s going. We most steadily talk about about, you appreciate, our future together and our relationship and, you appreciate, I am no longer attempting to [rush]. I blueprint no longer ponder both of us [is] attempting to secure sooner than ourselves, but we’re surely grateful for the route it’s going. … Save tuned.”

Joy posted a video montage of Viall in honor of his forty second birthday, soundtracked with the tune “Sweet Creature” by Harry Kinds. “To the man that deserves the arena — gratified birthday,” she wrote by Instagram. “I fancy you.” Viall replied in the feedback, writing: “I fancy you more than pizza.”

“We hold our differences but we make it work,” Viall captioned an Instagram snap of their Halloween costume, whereby they portrayed Jessica and Roger Rabbit.

The pair walked the red carpet together at ESPN and College Soccer Playoff’s Allstate Celebration at the Playoff tournament in Los Angeles.

The lovebirds announced they had been engaged by a joint Instagram post. 

“For the relaxation of my life, it’s you,” they captioned a handful of candy snaps from their engagement shoot, which incorporated Joy pretending to lick the extinct Bachelor’s face and Viall kissing her hand.