Bachelor Nation’s newest couple, Nick Viall and Vanessa Grimaldi, haven’t exactly been the picture-perfect vision of love since their engagement was revealed on the season finale of The Bachelor. From their awkward After the Final Rose appearance to supposed differing ideas about their future with reality TV, it’s safe to say that I’m counting down until Rachel Lindsay starts The Bachelorette and the “happy” couple loses some spotlight.
To add fuel to this mysterious fire, Cosmopolitan reports that the Neil Lane engagement ring Nick picked out for Vanessa is the same one that last year’s Bachelorette runner-up, Robby Hayes, selected for JoJo Fletcher. Of course, JoJo didn’t accept the ring, so does that mean this is literally the exact ring Robby picked?
Bachelor fan Claudia Oshry was the one to notice the similarity, calling out Lane for the insincerity of the coincidence. Let’s be real, though—Nick has picked out more than a few Neil Lane rings, so we can’t blame the guy for running into this issue.
Lane eventually responded to the controversy, telling People, “I bring six rings and over the years…some are the same, some have changed settings or are re-designed, and some are totally new. The most important thing is for a ring to speak to the particular man and to the woman he is in love with…If that particular ring wasn’t meant to find a home with JoJo, but rather spoke to Nick and Vanessa, then that’s the way it should be. It’s found its home.”
Ironically, the engagement ring seems to be one of the few things that’s totally fine in Nick and Vanessa’s relationship so far. To each his own, right?