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Has Brad Womack Found Love 14 Years After ‘The Bachelor’? All About His Life Today
Brad Womack made Bachelor Nation history when he became the only person to star as the lead of The Bachelor twice. However, his relationships from the show haven’t lasted, and he’s mostly kept out of the public eye since his tenure in Bachelor Nation.
Today, Womack lives a much more low-key life away from the spotlight. But has he been able to find the woman of his dreams? Swooon rounded up everything to know about where Womack’s at today.
What is Brad Womack doing today?
Today, Womack co-owns the Dizzy Rooster and Chugging Monkey bars in Austin, Texas. He still lives in Austin, which is where he resided during his time on The Bachelor.
“Now that we’re neighbors we have no excuses,” Chris Harrison wrote on Instagram in 2022, along with a photo of himself and Womack with the location tagged as Austin, Texas. “So good catching up with my old friend Brad Womack. As good a man as you’ll ever find. Apologies to @laurenzima for boring you with all our old stories.”
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Is Brad Womack married?
Womack is not married. For the most part, he keeps his love life out of the public eye. In January 2025, he hard-launched a relationship with a woman named Gabriella Nolen, but the photo has since been deleted.
“We’re having a lot of fun together,” he said on the Almost Famous podcast later that month. “She’s an inherently kind human being. I’m really happy. We’re really happy together right now.” It’s unclear if Womack and Nolen are still together.
She is the founder of Ella Creative Studio in Austin. Nolen created the company to “create a space where she could partner with visionaries, empowering them to realize their ideas through strategic business and creative consulting.” The marketing agency is a “brand-building consultancy,” according to Instagram.
Gabriella’s personal Instagram page reveals that she’s passionate about fitness.
Womack previously dated Jena Mays, a fitness model and athlete. They got together in 2017. Two years later, she gushed on Instagram, “For over two years, Brad has been my backbone. His drive and motivation is beyond inspiring to me. He has always set a great example of what a true, hard working business owner should be. Brad, thank you for restoring my faith in faithful men and proving good, wholesome gentlemen do exist.”
When Womack’s Bachelor seasons were highlighted on The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! in 2020, he confirmed he and Mays were still an item. It’s unclear when they split.
What happened to Brad Womack on The Bachelor?
Womack was first introduced to Bachelor Nation in 2007 when he starred on Season 11 of The Bachelor. He famously became the first person to not choose anyone at the final rose ceremony, dumping both DeAnna Pappas and Jenni Croft.
Although Womack was labeled a villain for this decision, he was adamant that he wanted to find someone to settle down with. In 2011, he returned as the lead for Season 15. This time, he proposed to Emily Maynard, but they split in June 2011, just three months after going public with their romance.
Maynard ended up marrying Tyler Johnson in 2014, and Womack said that’s the last time he spoke to her. “I remember when I had heard she gotten married, and I reached out and said, ‘Hey, I’m genuinely happy for you,'” he recalled on Almost Famous. “She had been wanting marriage, a beautiful family, and she has all of that and then some.”
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