Kat Izzo and Dale Moss fell in love during Bachelor in Paradise season 10 after respective broken engagements within the franchise.

Kat was briefly engaged to John Henry Spurlock after meeting during BiP season 9, while Dale proposed to Clare Crawley after her season of The Bachelorette years earlier in 2020. (The pair later dated Zac Cooper and Galey Alix, respectively, before returning to the Bachelor Nation spinoff.)

“I wanted to give up control and just see what was out there,” Dale exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the June 2025 premiere. “I’m really head down with travel and work and projects and things like that, but I definitely realized that there’s more out there and sometimes you have to remove yourself from certain situations to get more clarity on that.”

According to Dale, he came into Bachelor in Paradise “wanting to be open” — and then he met Kat.

Bachelor in Paradise threw a wrench into some couples’ happily ever after with the season 10 elimination twist. In previous iterations of the Bachelor spinoff, pairs have been able to freely explore their connection until the finale when some contestants (think: Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert) decided to leave the show engaged. This season, however, […]

While Dale and Kat were eliminated just shy of the finale, they continued dating after returning home from Costa Rica.

Keep scrolling for Kat and Dale’s full relationship timeline:

Beach Bond

Kat quickly expressed interest in Dale, wasting no time in exchanging roses and asking him out on dates.

“There’s a physical connection between me and Dale, obviously,” Kat said in a confessional during the first episode. “He’s really hot. He’s such a gentleman, helped me with my shoes [and] helped me on the little boat. I feel like I’m gonna be ‘baby girl’d’ and we love a man who takes charge and has chivalry.”

A Love Square

While Kat was all-in on Dale, he kept his options open once new arrivals Alli Jo Hinkes and Allyshia Gupta expressed interest. Dale and Ally Jo even kissed during one of the compatibility challenges.

After Kat confronted Dale about playing the field, he proclaimed that he “deaded it” and let the other women know that the nurse practitioner was his top choice during the rose ceremony.

Secret Boyfriend Claims

As Bachelor in Paradise continued to unfold, Allysia claimed in August 2025 that Kat snuck in an iPad to communicate with a boyfriend back home. Kat denied the allegations.

“When it comes to being in a relationship, I did not come in with a boyfriend,” she said on the “Viall Files” podcast after the finale. “Was I dating before Paradise? Of course, I wasn’t going to stop my life, [and] I didn’t even know if I wanted to do the show. … I came into Paradise saying, ‘This is going to help me figure out what it is that I needed to do.’”

Kat asserted that she has “no ill will” toward her now-ex and maintains that she wasn’t trying to communicate with him during Paradise.

“I did not have an iPad during filming, I did not have a laptop,” she said. “I think if I had those devices or messages on my arms other than my tattoos … that would have been shown. I don’t think [producers] were afraid of that. So, no, there was no communication to the outside world through any device.”

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Finale Drama

Ahead of the final day of Bachelor in Paradise, the eliminated couples returned to the beach to pick whether Dale and Kate or Spencer Conley and Jess Edwards would join Andrew Spencer and Alexe Godin in the running for the $500,000 prize.

Allyshia and then-boyfriend, Sean McLaughlin, tried to get the group to vote against Kat and Dale by repeating the iPad accusations. Kat ran off crying, while Dale calmly told the room that the claims were false.

Kat and Dale were ultimately eliminated, with both other couples taking home cash prizes. Spencer also proposed to Jess.

Back to Reality 

After leaving Costa Rica together, Kat and Dale continued pursuing their relationship.

“No engagement talks or anything like that,” Dale said on “The Viall Files” in September 2025. “I think, like, you have the show and we built the foundation there. When we talk about after the show [ended] in June, it was still a deep exploration phase for both of us. We had many conversations, things that sprung up with both of us [and] weren’t created by the other partner. Now, moving forward, we’re just in a very, very strong place.”

The pair even revealed that they introduced one another to their families and pets.

“He has a relationship with my cat 1757096125. That’s my baby,” Kat said. “That matters a lot.”

September 2025

Kat and Dale celebrated the Bachelor in Paradise finale with a joint Instagram post.

“And we’re just getting started …🤍,” a caption read.