Charity Lawson and Dotun Olubeko’s future is trying rosy after they bought engaged on The Bachelorette.
“I left [Dotun’s] last-chance date and that was after I made that simply government choice of like, ‘That is it,’” Charity completely informed Us Weekly in August 2023 of the second she knew Dotun was The One. “And as we all know, I did have a really stable reference to Joey [Graziadei, my runner-up]. So main as much as these moments, plenty of issues have been at play, various things have been shifting and shifting each single day.”
Whereas Charity was beforehand torn between Dotun and Joey, she in the end despatched the tennis professional residence on proposal day. Dotun went on to pop the query with a Neil Lane sparkler.
“Charity, you’ve impressed me. You’ve proven me {that a} good factor can actually simply be factor,” Dotun gushed throughout his televised proposal in Fiji. “The love that now we have is ideal. And so, Miss Charity Lawson, would you do me the dignity of turning this fairy story right into a actuality?”
Charity accepted Dotun’s proposal — and gave him the ultimate rose. Preserve studying for the pair’s full relationship timeline:
Out of the Limo, Into the Bachelor Mansion
New York-based Dotun was considered one of Charity’s suitors on season 20 of The Bachelorette. They fashioned a direct connection after he shared his immigration story.
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Again-to-Again Dates
Dotun was the one Bachelorette season 20 contestant to obtain two one-on-one dates — in successive weeks. One week after they bungee-jumped in Stevenson, Washington, Charity invited Dotun to run a marathon together with her in New Orleans.
Charity later informed Us in August 2023 that their first date was “life-changing.” She added: “Alongside the journey has been stunning, however I made [my final] choice at his final probability date.”
Hometown Sweeties
Dotun was initially disheartened that his dad and mom have been unavailable to attend his hometown date as a consequence of their beforehand scheduled trip to Nigeria. Charity was set to satisfy her man’s siblings and grandmother earlier than her future in-laws made a shock look. Dotun’s mother even proclaimed that if the advisor was Charity’s alternative, she would host an elaborate Nigerian marriage ceremony.
Dotun and Charity’s households met for the primary time in particular person — after “a lot of FaceTimes” — throughout After The Last Rose in August 2023.
“They love one another! It’s been so enjoyable,” the kid and household therapist gushed to Us. “They’re simply chopping up collectively, which is what we think about would occur. .. He’s grow to be so shut with my brother as I imagined would occur. We’re clearly excited for the long run and might’t recover from this entire engagement and what’s to return.”
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Soulmate Vibes
Throughout Dotun’s last date in Fiji, he offered Charity with a “scavenger hunt” of their Bachelorette journey. The hunt concluded with a locket that had every of their child photographs inside.
She Stated Sure!
After Dotun proposed, Charity gave him her last rose. “You’ve made me really feel alive. You’ve made me imagine in love once more. You’ve made me really feel so valued and so seen,” she mentioned through the episode. “And so, Dotun, after I stand right here on this second, I need a perpetually future with you. I see you as my husband. I see you as my future. I see it so clearly. I don’t have any doubts. I don’t query it.”
August 2023
In the course of the couple’s look on After the Last Rose, Dotun knowledgeable Charity that she was becoming a member of the forged of Dancing With the Stars season 32.
“We each talked about it and it’s one thing that I didn’t actually know was going to really occur, however he, clearly, is so supportive of it, which I like,” she informed Us, noting Dotun could be relocating to California through the dance competitors. “And he’s my largest fan, which is nice to have that. … We’ll be doing it collectively. He simply gained’t be the one dancing. I’ll be up there, [but] he’ll be alongside.”
Charity added that Dotun will “all the time be my precedence” all through her stint within the ballroom.
