Michelle Young has found ‘happily ever after’.
It took him a little longer than expected.
According to People Magazine, the former Bachelorette lead got engaged on October 24 in her native Edina, Minnesota.
He was extremely surprised!
Under the impression that she was heading into the woods to film a commercial, Young was surprised when she found boyfriend Jack Leys in the same location.
“I was completely amazed when I saw Jack standing in the middle of these beautiful flowers of white roses,” Young said in this interview, recalling the above-mentioned publication.
“I was so badly fooled that for a moment I thought the joke was that Jack was one of the male models I would be working with on the shoot.”
Young also said she was astounded by what her fiancé did to overcome the shocking blow:
“I didn’t even realize this was happening today.”
Young first appeared on season 25 of The Bachelor in 2021, finishing second to Matt James at the time.
She went on to star on season 18 of The Bachelorette later that year… becoming engaged to Nayte Olukoya at the show’s conclusion… only to split from Nayte in June 2022.
Things got pretty bad between the former teammates as well.
Young officially married Lays on Instagram in November 2023, captioning social photos of the pair, “Hit the jackpot with you.”
The two also attended Gerry Turner and Theresa Knist’s Golden Bachelor wedding in January, around the same time they moved in together.
how did they meet?
“She has a good friend and her friend has a younger brother that I know, and her friend’s younger brother posted Michelle in her [Instagram] story, and so I just hit her up a few times,” Lays explained on Almost Famous several months ago. “Like, ‘Hey, dude, when are you gonna introduce me to Michelle?'”
Introduced, the pair met and immediately spent the next “four days together”, Leys then added.
Fast forward to October and the presentation of the 3.56-carat emerald-cut diamond and the rest is romantic history.
“I tried to say yes several times but I was in shock that no words really came out,” Young told People. “There were a lot of happy tears and of course I said yes!”