Alex Michael and Amanda Marsh, The Bachelor Season 1
Length of Relationship: One year
He Said: Trista Sutter, Alex's runner-up and eventual Bachelorette, revealed he had told her he'd messed up by choosing Amanda. "Basically he told me that he thought he had made a mistake,"she spilled to TV Guide in 2003. "He'll probably deny that he said [that he'd made a mistake]."
She Said: Under normal circumstances, they may have had a shot, the nurse practioner reflected to E! News in 2022. "Alex and I turned out to be rather compatible and dated about a year after filming," she explained. "We had different pictures of what the future looked like and long-distance, it was stacked to fail. Now, it appears that [production] is a little bit more involved in helping the relationships at least have an opportunity. We didn't. When it stopped filming in February, we got to get together in March secretly in Mexico and then I didn't get to see him until May. Then it ended up being two weeks out of a month and no real normalcy could develop."
But while their romance didn't last, Alex and Amanda's friendship did, with Amanda revealing they kept in touch for a while, exchanging emails a few times a year.