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The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart star Jamie Gabrielle is opening up about her struggles with mental health issues. In recent months, many on social media have praised the musician with her new, thinner physique. But as Jamie revealed on Instagram this week, there's more than meets the eye.  "I get a lot of DMs and comments addressing the way I look and people asking for my workout routine or how I 'lost the weight'," she shared in a candid statement. "Yes, I have been working out but the truth is that I struggle with an eating disorder, depression and anxiety." She continued, "In my life I have gone from being almost overweight to being...

The inaugural season of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” wrapped Monday, naming Chris Watson and Bri Strauss as the first winners of the series. Their success came with a promise of writing, recording, and touring their music as a pair, but where are they now? And which couples are still together and making music? We tracked down the musicians for relationship updates and — hopefully — some new tunes to listen to!

Chris Watson and Bri Strauss

The winners of the series were last seen during the finale recording their track “Beyond,” which dropped on their self-titled debut album Tuesday. The tracks include five original songs, in addition to five covers from their previous “Listen To Your Heart” performances.

While the pair is very much still together, they’re quarantining separately in their respective home-states. Their album “Chris and Bri” is available on all streaming platforms.

Trevor Holmes and Jamie Gabrielle...

“The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” winners Chris Watson and Bri Stauss are still together and have already dropped an album, but like any Bachelor Nation series, not every couple found a happy ending on the show.

The musical spin-off boasted a cast of 23 singing singles, but almost half of them were gone after the first two weeks of “Bachelor in Paradise”-esque mingling and eliminating. And then we lost another duo, Gabe Baker and Ruby Jane Smith (remember them?), because he was pining for the taken Savannah McKinley.

Seven couples were formed (some had been attached at the hip from the beginning) — Chris and Bri, Jamie Gabrielle and Trevor Holmes, Rudi Gutierrez and Matt Ranaudo, Natascha Bessez and Ryan Neal, Julia Rae and Sheridan Reed, Brandon Mills and Savannah, and Bekah Purifoy and Danny Padilla — for the weekly judged performances, aka when the real show began. But few...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the finale of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.”

The contestants of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” traveled to their final destination during Monday night’s finale. Chris Watson and Bri Strauss, Trevor Holmes and Jamie Gabrielle, and Matt Ranaudo and Rudi arrived in Nashville ahead of their last performances.

Each couple was given their weekly musical assignment before they began rehearsals and their last dates. While most immediately began to practice, Matt continued to express doubts about his relationship with Rudi.

After realizing they couldn’t catch up to the emotions of their fellow contestants, the two ultimately decided to end their relationship. “I will forever have such deep feelings for you,” he told her in a parting sentiment. “We will be so bonded from this whole thing for the rest of our lives.”

The...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fifth episode of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.”

The final four couples on “The Bachelor presents: Listen to Your Heart” headed to Las Vegas on the May 11 episode.

The eight contestants packed up their bags and hopped on tour busses for a road trip. Each couple shared a bus and alone time as they traveled the daunting four-hour drive from Los Angeles.

Ryan Neal and Natascha Bessez, Chris Watson and Bri Strauss, and Trevor Holmes and Jamie Gabrielle headed directly to Sin City, while Matt Ranaudo and Rudi decided to take a detour. The two spent the night on the road in lieu of their grand hotel. Once they finally arrived in Nevada, Matt expressed hesitations about their relationship.

“I’m still trying to figure this whole thing out,” he confessed to Ryan. “I don’t know if I’m there,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fourth episode of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.”

Last week on “The Bachelor presents: Listen to Your Heart,” the rose power went to a panel of judges, who eliminated Bekah Purifoy and Danny Padilla for their lack of chemistry onstage. After the performances, six couples remained: Matt Ranaudo and Rudi, Brandon Mills and Savannah McKinley, Ryan Neal and Natascha Bessez, Chris Watson and Bri Strauss, Trevor Holmes and Jamie Gabrielle, and Sheridan Reed and Julie Rae.

This week resumed with Chris Harrison in the mansion to deliver another format change. During the week, couples would be broken apart and forced to go on dates with other contestants in the house.

“I am going to put these relationships to the ultimate test,” he told them. “It’s meant to push you to have a different perspective. In some ways,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the third episode of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.”

After spending two weeks fostering relationships in the “Bachelor” mansion, the “Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” contestants were given a rude awakening. At the beginning of Week 3, host Chris Harrison offered insight into the updated format of the show: “The next time I see you, I only want to see couples that are serious about taking that next step and moving forward,” he said.

The new reality shook the mansion and left contestants fighting to establish something substantial. Eventually, only seven couples remained: Matt Ranaudo and Rudi, Danny Padilli and Bekah Purifoy, Brandon Mills and Savannah McKinley, Ryan Neal and Natascha Bessez, Chris Watson and Bri Strauss, Trevor Holmes and Jamie Gabrielle, and Sheridan Reed and Julie Rae. Ruby Jane and Gabe Brown both self-eliminated after they...

Natascha Bessez spent so much of the second episode of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” trying to expose Trevor Holmes‘ past infidelity that it almost felt like she forgot there was some important business to take care of: ensure you get a rose to stick around. She did just that, flirting up a storm and making out with Ryan Neal, the last “single” guy, to earn his rose. And now they’ll go on their first date on Monday’s episode.

The new couple head to the House of Blues in Anaheim, Calif., to take in a concert by country star Chris Lane. Lane, oh, just so happens, to be married to Lauren Bushnell Lane, who won Season 20 of “The Bachelor,” starring Ben Higgins; the pair split after a year. What are the chances?! (*sarcasm font*) Lane brings the pair on stage to perform “Big, Big Plans,” a...

Natascha Bessez came in like a freight train on Monday’s “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” to expose Trevor Holmes‘ alleged cheating ways. The “American Idol” alum would only admit to “emotional cheating” on Natascha’s friend and came clean to his paramour Jamie Gabrielle, who decided to give him a second chance, which seems like a big mistake. Huge, you could say. Especially since the 21-year-old had just cried to the other girls that she’s been cheated on in “every relationship that I’ve ever been in.”

So why did she decide to stick with a guy who just copped to emotionally cheating on his ex-girlfriend? “I was just trying to follow my heart and to go with those feelings,” Jamie told “Entertainment Tonight” (watch below). “And I had, you know, spent the time I had with him, and you know, I, you know, asked my questions,...

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Because it'll be the last Bachelor content we get for a while, we've been especially excited to see how The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart unfolds. Country singer Jamie Gabrielle is one of the talented hopefuls looking for love and a big break on the show, and from the looks of things, she could very easily be one of the contestants we root for the most. Here's what we know about her after the premiere!

According to her official ABC bio, Jamie has always known she wanted a career in music. "Jamie is the sweet and fun-loving girl next door who knows her way around a six-string guitar. From an early age, she knew she wanted a career in music. After leaving liberal arts college for the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Jamie was ready to pursue her musical aspirations," her bio reads.

Jamie admires some of...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series premiere of “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.”

Amid the era of social distancing, ABC is bringing a familiar franchise back to viewers’ living rooms. “The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart” made its series premiere on Monday night as the newest installment in “The Bachelor” family.

The six-episode event is considered a cross between “A Star Is Born” and the standard reality series’ formula — it brings together a group of 20 single musicians and sends them on a rotation of dates in the hopes of finding love. Each week, new additions are brought into the house (a la “Bachelor in Paradise”) to shake up the couples as they navigate their relationships. While it takes the formula of “Paradise,” the show recruited a body of contestants made exclusively of performers — each with their own unique genre and...