Finding love off the beach! Tia Booth may have not realized it at the time, but she met The One in Taylor Mock before she even returned to Bachelor Nation for a second stint in Paradise.
Fans met the Arkansas native on season 22 of The Bachelor. While she didn’t find love with Arie Luyendyk Jr. on the 2018 season, she appeared on season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise later that year. At the time, Booth was attempting to work things out with Colton Underwood, her ex who competed on Becca Kufrin’s season 14 of The Bachelorette.
Booth and Underwood, who came out as gay in April 2021 after he was named the season 23 Bachelor, left Mexico solo in 2018. The physical therapist was then linked to Big Brother’s Corey Brooks until their 2019 split.
After years off of TV, Booth appeared on the 2021 season of BiP, dating Kenny Braasch, James Bonsall and Blake Monar. In the end, however, she found love when she returned to Nashville and started spending time with Mock, whom she met months before filming the series.
“He got the balls one day to try to hit on me and get me to hang out with him, and I was like, ‘Sweetie, I’m going on Bachelor in Paradise. I’ll see you later,’” she recalled on the “Click Bait” podcast in October 2021. “Then after I got home, I was like, ‘Damn, this freaking dude has been right here trying this whole time, which is all I asked for on the show.’ So then I gave it a shot and we’ve been good.”
She added at the time: “He’s an angel. He really is really sweet, and he’s been doing sweet things for me for months. It’s just scary being public. In the public eye, everybody pays attention to every little detail.”
Less than one year later, Mock proposed to Booth on stage at the Atlanta stop of Bachelor Live On Stage.
“Becca and Thomas [Jacobs] knew and, like, the people behind the scenes on The Bachelor Live On Stage tour knew because they had to help set it up so completely shocked,” Booth revealed after the proposal in April 2022. “My mom knew of course. Taylor and her had been talking about it for a few a weeks. She is stone cold. I didn’t catch on from her at all. Taylor asked for my mom’s blessing. He didn’t get a chance to ask my dad for his blessing before he passed but he asked my mom and I know my dad would have said yes. He would have given him a hard time but he would have said yes.”
Scroll through for a timeline of Booth and Mock’s romance:
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Bachelor Nation’s Tia Booth and Fiance Taylor Mock’s Relationship Timeline
Finding love off the beach! Tia Booth may have not realized it at the time, but she met The One in Taylor Mock before she even returned to Bachelor Nation for a second stint in Paradise.
Fans met the Arkansas native on season 22 of The Bachelor. While she didn’t find love with Arie Luyendyk Jr. on the 2018 season, she appeared on season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise later that year. At the time, Booth was attempting to work things out with Colton Underwood, her ex who competed on Becca Kufrin’s season 14 of The Bachelorette.
Booth and Underwood, who came out as gay in April 2021 after he was named the season 23 Bachelor, left Mexico solo in 2018. The physical therapist was then linked to Big Brother’s Corey Brooks until their 2019 split.
After years off of TV, Booth appeared on the 2021 season of BiP, dating Kenny Braasch, James Bonsall and Blake Monar. In the end, however, she found love when she returned to Nashville and started spending time with Mock, whom she met months before filming the series.
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“He got the balls one day to try to hit on me and get me to hang out with him, and I was like, ‘Sweetie, I’m going on Bachelor in Paradise. I’ll see you later,’” she recalled on the “Click Bait” podcast in October 2021. “Then after I got home, I was like, ‘Damn, this freaking dude has been right here trying this whole time, which is all I asked for on the show.’ So then I gave it a shot and we’ve been good.”
She added at the time: “He’s an angel. He really is really sweet, and he’s been doing sweet things for me for months. It’s just scary being public. In the public eye, everybody pays attention to every little detail.”
Less than one year later, Mock proposed to Booth on stage at the Atlanta stop of Bachelor Live On Stage.
“Becca and Thomas [Jacobs] knew and, like, the people behind the scenes on The Bachelor Live On Stage tour knew because they had to help set it up so completely shocked,” Booth revealed after the proposal in April 2022. “My mom knew of course. Taylor and her had been talking about it for a few a weeks. She is stone cold. I didn’t catch on from her at all. Taylor asked for my mom’s blessing. He didn’t get a chance to ask my dad for his blessing before he passed but he asked my mom and I know my dad would have said yes. He would have given him a hard time but he would have said yes.”
Scroll through for a timeline of Booth and Mock’s romance:
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January 2021
The twosome met at a party in Nashville.
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June 2021
Booth filmed season 7 of BiP in early summer 2021.
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Summer 2021
“We didn’t even have a proper first date. He was still trying to wear me down, and finally I was like, ‘I’m in a good mood today. If you want to come hang with me at my house, I have errands to do and stuff to do at my house, but if you want to come hang with me while I do that, OK,’” she recalled on “Click Bait” of how the duo started dating after BiP. “And that was the first time we hung out just us.”
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October 2021
Booth introduced her followers to Mock.
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November 2021
“Titans may have lost, but I won with you?,” Booth gushed via Instagram after attending a football game with her man.
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February 2022
The couple enjoyed a vacation in Cancun.
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March 2022
“This guy truly doesn’t get enough credit for putting up with my s—t,” she gushed via Instagram. “He came into my life during the most difficult season I’ve ever faced and hasn’t wavered. I’ve tried to push him away more times than I can count, but he’s stuck through it all. Maybe once we’re on the other side of it I’ll write a book to explain, but for now here’s some genuine soft smiles.”
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April 2022
Mock popped the question. “Never been more shocked or sure in my life? I love you so much Tay, my FIANCÉ!!!” she captioned snaps from the proposal.
Days later, Booth gave more details of the moment, writing via Instagram Stories: “We think* he said ‘Sorry BIP didn’t work out for you. I’m glad you came back to Nashville to me?’ Something or other. ‘I wanna spend the rest of my life with you? Got down on one knee— Will you marry me?'”
She also gave an update on wedding plans, explaining, “I’ve been saying for a while I wanted to elope and not deal with wedding planning, but now that it’s here I wanna have a big wedding.”
Credit: Courtesy of Tia Booth/Instagram
June 2022
The reality TV personality announced her first pregnancy via Instagram, sharing a black-and-white baby bump photo. “Happy heavenly Father’s Day to the first man I ever loved and Happy soon-to-be Father’s Day to my forever,” she wrote, referring to her late dad and Mock, respectively.
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June 2022
“We technically were pregnant when we got engaged, we just didn’t know. I remember perfectly when we got pregnant. It was March 26 and we were about to go watch the Razorbacks play basketball. It was March Madness,” Booth recalled during an episode of her “Click Bait” podcast, describing her early pregnancy symptoms and how she told her fiancé the news.
The reality star also noted that she had “no idea” why her initial announcement was removed from Instagram, joking, “It was only the biggest news of my life and the post disappeared!”
Credit: Courtesy of Tia Booth/Instagram
July 2022
The couple revealed they have a baby boy on the way with a colorful confetti explosion.
Credit: Courtesy of Tia Booth/Instagram
December 2022
The Bachelor Nation alums welcomed their son, Tatum Booth Mock. The pair announced the news via Instagram with a sweet sound clip of Tia seeing her baby for the first time.
Source: US Magazine
