'Bringing Up Bates' star Nathan Bates engaged to girlfriend Esther Keyes following lavish three-day proposal
Nathan Bates, star of the popular UPtv reality series "Bringing Up Bates," is officially engaged to his girlfriend Esther Keyes. Fox News can exclusively reveal that Nathan popped the question on May 22 in Florida after a three-day celebration of their relationship that spanned three different cities.The proposal, which comes after he had been courting her for the past year, marks the first man in the large Bates family to get engaged in roughly eight years. The big moment took place in Orlando, Fla. after the couple visited their respective hometowns earlier that same weekend.The actual moment Nathan got down on one knee happened at family friends Dan and Janie Drummond’s home in Mandalay shores on Lake Conway.