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Finding true love is a better prize than winning The Traitors and Love Island USA combined. Carsten “Bergie” Bergersen and Taylor Nicole Smith, who met on a beautiful island in Fiji, are engaged after two and a half years of dating. “For the past 6 months I have been planning my proposal for the love of my life, Taylor Nicole Smith. When it came to planning I knew I wanted to pop the question at a place that held sentimental value to both Taylor and I,” he wrote in the announcement post on Instagram. “For our 6 month anniversary Taylor and I celebrated in Fredericksburg Texas, since then Fredericksburg has held a place in our hearts. My mission with my proposal was for Taylor not to know when or where I was going to ask that 4-word question. In my case 5 because I asked ‘Will You Marry Me Please’ (I blacked out).”
Smith and Bergersen met on season five and left the Villa as the third-place runners-up for the show. They’ve been a couple ever since, and Bergersen reflected on how fate led him to Smith. He explained, “Coming home one fateful night and filling out the Love Island application, having the producers chose me of all people, VOTING MYSELF OFF DAY ONE and getting the opportunity to come back, and having America keep me in that villa by any means necessary.” Destination wedding, anyone?
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