Bachelorette Michelle Young Engaged to Jack Leius: ‘A Lot of Happy Tears’

Michelle Young and Jack Leius are getting married!

The former Bachelorette opened up to People magazine about the proposal, revealing Jack tricked her by staging a fake commercial!

“I completely froze when I saw Jack standing in the middle of this beautiful flower arch of white roses,” she said, adding, “I was fooled so badly that for a moment I thought the joke was that Jack was one of the male models that I would be working with at the shoot.”

Leius popped the question with a 3.56-carat emerald-cut diamond. Michelle said, “I tried to say yes several times but was in shock that no words really came out.”

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She went on, “There were a lot of happy tears and of course I said YES!”

The couple made their relationship Instagram official in November 2023, and stepped out together for the first time in January 2024 for “Golden Bachelor” couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist’s wedding.

“Extra” spoke with Michelle and Jack back in March and they shared how they started dating after being introduced through Michelle’s best friend’s little brother… who Jack knows!

They believe there was an “invisible string” tying them together all along!

She said, “When we were starting to talk, we both grew up in Minnesota, we both played athletics… we have a ton of mutual friends… We crossed paths at so many different times, but I went through a huge public breakup. He was also going through a really hard breakup… We were in the same area, we went to the same events, but we never crossed paths until we both were actually at a point where we were ready for a relationship.”

Jack chimed in, “When it happened, it happened. We hit the ground running… We just connected so well right away. We spent the whole weekend together and it was just like, ‘Alright, yeah, we’re gonna be together.’”

Jack admitted to having watched Michelle on “The Bachelor,” and confessed, “I watched it with my ex… She had made like a sly comment, she was like, ‘Oh, she’s kind of your type and she’s from Minnesota.’”

Jack said he never watched Michelle’s season of “The Bachelorette” but recalled, “I would see photos of her everywhere, and I always thought she was so beautiful.”

He explained, “I just got the sudden urge when I saw her on my friend’s story to swipe up on it. I was like, ‘Hey man, you’ve gotta introduce me to Michelle.’ He thought I was joking… So then like a day later I texted him individually… He was like, ‘Okay, let me see what I can do,’ and then I met her the next night.”

Michelle was the Season 18 Bachelorette in 2021, getting engaged to Nayte Olukoya. They split in June 2022.