Regardless of Yoly falling in love with Xander throughout their three weeks collectively, Mal by no means wavered of their dedication. 

“It is all the time been you,” Mal advised Yoly, earlier than getting down on one knee. “Will you do life with me? Will you marry me?” After a short pause, Yoly mentioned sure, asking, “What took you so lengthy?”

Nonetheless, Yoly had doubts that she made the fitting alternative. “If Xander had been to struggle for me,” she admitted, “I do not know what I’d say.”

Whereas Yoly and Mal left the experiment engaged, Mal revealed they had been “fortunately damaged up” throughout the reunion, although they did conflict over the precise timeline of their breakup.

“My worry was that as quickly because the cameras stopped filming, we had been going to return to our ways in which I do know of,” Yoly defined. “That occurred, we spent a while aside. Throughout that point aside, she mentioned, ‘This is not going to work out.’ I did not struggle again.”

After watching the present and seeing Yoly’s interactions with Xander, Mal mentioned she now views their relationship by way of a totally completely different lens. “You are feeling like a harmful stranger to me,” Mal mentioned. “I had your again so arduous and all you probably did was make a whole idiot out of me.”

As of June 2025, Mal is courting NYC dancer Sammy Picone.