The Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron thinks his girlfriend Tate Madden may be "The One."
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Now that Tyler and Tate have been dating for more than eight months, he can apparently picture the blonde beauty being his partner forever.
"I hope so. That's our plan. That's our goal," Tyler, 32, told Us Weekly of having a future with Tate.
"I think she is everything that I've ever wanted in somebody, and she is also my best friend on top of that. I think that's all a good recipe right there."
Tyler confirmed his relationship with Tate two years after they met filming his reality series, Going Home with Tyler Cameron on Amazon Prime Video.
Tyler admitted he waited a while to go public with his romance with Tate because they had to figure some things out first.
According to The Bachelorette alum, the pair "sometimes" lacked communication during the early days of their relationship.
"She didn't always understand what was going on when it was going on," Tyler explained, alluding to how fame can complicate dating.
"That was a big step for us. Now, being in the public eye, you basically add a third party to your relationship. They're always going to scrutinize or say something. It's learning how to navigate through that, and I think she's done a great job at it -- and so far, it's been good."
Tyler told Page Six in April 2024 that he was "dating someone," and then he noted how he had an official girlfriend -- but without sharing her identity -- in July 2024.
While walking the red carpet solo at the 2024 ESPY Awards, Tyler confirmed to E! News in an interview that he was off the market.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOW"Things are smooth," Tyler teased of his romance at the time. "It's new. So we're learning and one day the world will know, but right now we're just kind of chilling out."
Tyler said he and the woman in his life were enjoying their privacy as well as quality time together.
"It's just better that way," Tyler said.
"Once you make it for the world, everyone gets to comment and throw their two cents in. And right now, we're trying to make sure we're good."
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Although Tyler was keeping the identity of his girlfriend under wraps, he was rumored to be dating Tate, a fellow Jupiter, FL, resident who appeared on Going Home with Tyler Cameron.
Not only are Tyler and Tate part of the same friend group in Jupiter, where Tyler grew up and currently works as a general contractor, but he was also featured in many of Tate's Instagram photos and TikTok videos, some of which had captured the couple being pretty flirty with each other.
In April 2024, Tate posted a carousel of images of herself working with Tyler on the set of his show.
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A friend of the couple from Jupiter, Kate Dool, commented on the post, "It's all started with a 'I have a hot friend that's a photographer,'" and Tate responded, "Slowly lost that title as filming went on."
Tyler and Tate's friendship goes back quite some time. They also attended a Furry Friends gala together in Jupiter in March 2023.
And in 2022, Tate posted funny TikTok videos of Tyler in which she claimed they were "not dating" at the time but he was giving her mixed signals.
"I actually work with Tyler but he is madly in love with me and he asks me every day to be his girlfriend every day and I tell him he needs to calm down and it's inappropriate," Tate quipped in one clip, before Tyler told her that she was out of her mind.
After competing on The Bachelorette's fifteenth season starring Hannah Brown in 2019, he briefly lived in New York City, sharing an apartment with Season 25 The Bachelor star Matt James.
Tyler then moved back to Jupiter because he said he was "trying to slow down" and "trying to date." He apparently wanted to connect with good people and "do the right thing" in his life.
And "doing the right thing" apparently meant ignoring his DMs from women on Instagram.
In Summer 2024, Tyler appeared on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast and shared with Serena Pitt and Joe Amabile how being back in Jupiter really "changed" the way he looked at dating and what he wanted to do with his life.
"Not going to lie, I think I've grown up the most from 30 to 31 than I have in the past five years... I want to have responsibilities and have these big businesses. I want to try to grow and you can't be doing the crazy dumb stuff. I had to learn to settle and be content with where I am in life," Tyler explained on the podcast.
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Tyler also acknowledged he probably wasn't setting himself up to find The One during his time in New York.
"The way I was dating before was chasing what glittered and was fun and what was never really good for me. Now, I am home and I am dating in Jupiter and trying to meet people that I relate to and are working and want to raise a family," Tyler said at the time.
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Tyler fell in love with Hannah on The Bachelorette, but he finished in second place behind her winner, aspiring country singer Jed Wyatt, during the May 2019 finale on ABC.
Tyler recalled crying and being crushed about his breakup with Hannah after the show, but Hannah abruptly called off her engagement to Jed -- about a month after he had popped the question in Greece -- because Jed's intentions were questionable and he allegedly had a girlfriend back home while he filmed The Bachelorette.
Although Hannah regretted her final pick and broke up with Jed, Tyler moved on and dated supermodel Gigi Hadid in a highly-publicized romance.
Once Tyler and Gigi broke up in late 2019, Tyler and Hannah attempted to secretly reconcile multiple times, but nothing ever stuck.
Tyler remained single for two years before he started dating model Camila Kendra. Tyler admitted he was in love with Camila, but they only dated for eight months and she allegedly dumped him in August 2021.
Tyler later confirmed his relationship with Paige Lorenze, a social-media influencer, in July 2022, but they split just three weeks later.
"We actually had to take a step back. It wasn't the right time. It wasn't good for us," Tyler said on E!'s "Daily Pop" at the time. "But we both have tons of respect and love for each other."
In addition, Tyler -- who finished as the runner-up on Fox's The Real Dirty Dancing and also competed on Season 2 of the network's Special Forces: World's Toughest Test reality competition -- was also rumored to be romantically involved with Stassie Karanikolaou, Juliette Porter, and Jilissa Ann Zoltko at one time or another.
Rumors also swirled Tyler was dating the former Very Cavallari star Kristin Cavallari in 2023.
But Tyler previously told Page Six that he imagines himself in 10 years being a high school football coach for is local high school, Jupiter High, and having "a bunch of kids" with his wife.
Hannah actually visited Tyler in Jupiter after his beloved mother Andrea Cameron died in 2020, and the pair ended up quarantining together -- along with a big group of friends -- during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Not only did Hannah write that she felt like Tyler's "backup player who never got to play in the game," but she also said their relationship "wasn't some game" to her and he "broke" her heart when he began dating Gigi shortly after The Bachelorette 15 wrapped on TV.
And Hannah claimed Tyler's last text to her after their quarantine session was, "Well... if you rock with me, you rock with me. If you don't, you don't."
But Tyler noted on "The Bellas Podcast" once Hannah's book was released in late 2021, "I've got receipts, too!"
Hannah is now happily engaged to model Adam Woolard, and Tyler has said he's happy for his ex and he thinks "it all worked out" for them both.
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