The Ultimatum’s Hunter and Alexis on Why They Signed Up for — and Quit — the Experiment

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Hunter Parr and Alexis Maloney’s time on The Ultimatum was brief but played a critical role in making their happy ending happen.“Where we were in our relationship, we were at kind of a point where I was ready to get engaged.

Hunter was dragging his feet and wanted to live together before getting engaged. I really wanted to stand true to what I believed in,” Alexis began during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, noting that she wanted Hunter to be “100 percent confident” before getting down on one knee. “So going through this cool experience, not only will we get to watch it back, we’ll get to share it with our kids one day because it was a great experience for us. [We thought], ‘Why not?

We’ve kind of did it all before. Let’s try reality TV.’”The Ultimatum follows six couples on the brink of getting engaged. However, since one person in the relationship is hesitant to pop the question, the contestants are instructed to switch partners and participate in a trial marriage with another cast member for three weeks.

After part one, they go back to their original significant other for another three weeks before deciding how to move forward.“There was never a ton of hesitation, but we definitely had to do a lot of discussion,” Hunter added of joining the show, created by the same team behind Love Is Blind. “I wouldn’t say I was completely closed off to the idea, initially.