Bachelor Kelley Flanagan gifts Rolex to boyfriend Ari Raptis
Kelley Flanagan There was some serious bling waiting for her under the tree this holiday season.
“I still can’t get over my Christmas gift from Santa (aka Ari),” the Bachelor Nation star, 31, wrote via her Instagram Story on Friday, January 5, alongside a photo of her gold and silver Rolex watch from her friend Ari Raptis.
Although Flanagan did not specify the exact style of Rolex, the accessory resembled the Ladies Rolex Datejust watchwhich currently retails for almost $10,000.
Flanagan first revealed her romance with Raptis, 33, in June 2023 by posting a photo via Instagram of the couple dressed in formal attire. She has since shared glimpses into the couple’s lives via social media, with the pair celebrating the holidays together this year.
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“To all the memories we will make in this new year. I’m happy for you in 2024!✨,” she captioned a New Year’s Eve post of her and Raptin standing in front of fireworks.
Flanagan’s Instagram debut with Raptis came two months after her ex Peter Weber confirmed that they had broken up during an appearance at a beauty convention in Calgary, Canada. At the event, Season 24’s Bachelor revealed that he was single and still looking for his wife. (A source later confirmed this We weekly that the couple called it quits.)
Flanagan and Weber met shortly before season 24 of The Bachelor began filming in 2018 and hit it off when they crossed paths again on the show — until producers reportedly tried to keep the duo away from each other.
“The first few weeks I saw him looking at me differently than when we started one-on-one and I could 100 percent tell there were producers in his head,” Flanagan shared during an April 2020 episode of the Almost Famous Podcast ‘. “Because nothing happened between us during the one-on-one, but he had this attitude towards me that was so pissed off and I looked at him like, ‘What the hell were you told?’ because nothing has happened here to cause you to have this attitude. And so I knew at that moment that something was going on behind the scenes, and I thought, ‘This is bulls–t.’
Flanagan was ultimately sent home in Week 7, with Weber suggesting that instead Hannah-Ann Sluss during the final. He later broke off the engagement to reconnect with the number two Madi Prewettbut the duo broke up soon after.
In April 2020, Us broke the news that Weber and Flanagan had rekindled their romance after reconnecting at the Super Bowl two months earlier. “Peter and Kelley are totally dating, but they aren’t admitting it to people,” an insider told Us at the time, noting that Flanagan was “much more careful” about privacy so as not to be “criticized all over the internet.” ”
The pair became Instagram official in May 2020, when Weber posted a photo of himself and Flanagan in the cockpit of a small plane. “You captured me. Let the adventure begin,” he wrote alongside the sweet photo.
The following year Weber unveiled Entertainment tonight that the couple had ended their relationship because they were on “two different frequencies.” However, Us confirmed that the duo was back “fully together” in September 2022.
“Peter wants to be in a serious, committed relationship and his feelings for Kelley have never gone away,” an insider exclusively shared Us after they were spotted together in Chicago. “They are both happy and looking forward to how things go this time.”