Bachelor in Paradise’s Brandon Jones Says Nayte Olukoya Apologized to Him After Michelle Young Split: What to Know

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As fans prepare to watch Brandon Jones look for The One on Bachelor in Paradise, Us Weekly is breaking down what the Bachelorette season 18 runner-up has been up to since the finale — including how he was dragged into Nayte Olukoya and Michelle Young’s split.The Minnesota teacher picked Nayte over Brandon during the December 2021 finale — after telling both finalists she loved them.“In that moment, I was very open to both of those relationships.

Those were feelings that I was feeling. Does that make it [a] little bit harder for Nayte to watch back? Yeah, it does,” Michelle admitted on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast at the time. “And that’s definitely where our communication piece comes in with having to navigate through that because it’s not an easy situation and it’s such a different situation and one that a lot of people can’t necessarily relate to.

It was just that piece was truly just staying true to what I was feeling, which is what I promised when I accepted the role as a Bachelorette.”Nayte noted at the time that he didn’t fault his then-fiancée for falling for both of them.“When you’re in this environment, that’s literally something that can happen, and it did happen,” he said. “And I can feel however I felt about it, but at the end of the day, you kind of gotta just remind yourself like, ‘Hey, this environment, like, things happened, now that this is done, we’re back into the real world and that’s something that’s behind us now.’ It’s just her and I against the world.

It can only bother you so much. I get to wake up next to Michelle [for] the rest of my life.”It wasn’t long before Michelle and Nayte’s relationship fell apart, however.