Bachelor contestant Victoria Fuller and series’ star Chris Soules are ‘currently together in Iowa’

The controversial star came in third on Peter Weber’s season of The Bachelor, behind Madison Prewett and Hannah Ann Sluss. 

And Victoria Fuller has reportedly moved on to another Bachelor star – Chris Soules, according to Reality Steve.

The duo have are ‘currently together in Iowa for the week.’ 

‘One of the more random Bachelor “couples” that i can’t say I ever would’ve guessed. I don’t know how long this has been going on or how serious it is, but I can confirm that Victoria Fuller is currently together in Iowa for the week with Chris Soules. Discuss.,’ Reality Steve tweeted on Wednesday. 

One week ago, Victoria took to her Instagram to share a snap of herself in a bra and sweat bottoms; she captioned the image: ‘Day 87 of quarantine. I now live in these sweat pants. Tried to organize my closet. Failed. Thought with all this extra time I would finish my book or take up dusting. I have not. Turns out I am just lazy. What is makeup? Buxton is over me. I am over me. Help.’ 

Last fall, Chris, 38, agreed to accept a two-year suspended prison sentence and two years probation for his role in a April 2017 fatal crash in Iowa.

In 2019, Chris pleaded guilty to fleeing the scene of a personal injury accident that left 66-year-old Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Mosher, of Aurora, dead after Soules’s truck rear-ended Mosher’s tractor.

Chris, who sustained a concussion, called 911, identified himself, waited for paramedics and even administered CPR himself, but he left the scene in a separate vehicle before police arrived and headed to his Arlington, Iowa home – which is against the law in the state, We Are Iowa reported. 

He was originally charged with leaving the scene of a deadly accident, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence, reported the Des Moines Register.

However, he avoided going to trial by pleading guilty to the reduced charge.

Soules and his parents, Gary and Linda, already paid a $2.5million in a settlement to Mosher’s family in May 2019.    

Mosher was taken to an area hospital, where was pronounced dead.

Soules was arrested and initially charged with the Class D felony of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. 

When the charge was lowered to the aggravated misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury, he pleaded guilty.

He called his parents and they advised him to call an attorney, who told him to have legal counsel with him when he spoke to police.

He said: ‘[I listened] to the advice given to me by my attorney. I didn’t know that I had really done anything wrong. In hindsight I should have remained on the scene. But I didn’t know that those were grounds for arrest at that point,’ he told People.

Soules’s attorney made a point of noting that witnesses at the scene of the accident said ‘there was no indication whatsoever that Mr Soules was impaired.’

He told People: ‘I was not drinking that night.’

His blood and urine test six hours after the accident was 0.0, according to People. Alcohol can stay in the blood for 24 hours.

Soules first appeared on season 10 of The Bachelorette, where he finished third.

He shot to fame when he was selected as the star of season 19 of The Bachelor, where he became known as ‘Prince Farming’.

On the finale, he proposed to contestant Whitney Bischoff, but the relationship ended shortly after the final episode aired. 

Soules previously pleaded guilty to drunken driving in 2005 and was sentenced to one year of probation and a 60-day suspended jail sentence.

In 2001, when he was 19, he twice pleaded guilty to underage possession of alcohol and also was fined for having an open container in a car.

Victoria has also had her share of controversies. 

The Bachelor star’s biggest backlash came after it was revealed she modeled merchandise that said ‘white lives matter’ before coming on the show.

The 26-year-old star broke her silence in February on the controversy and apologized for being a part of the campaign, via Instagram sorties that she swiftly deleted.

Adding: ‘I want to say that I unequivocally reject the beliefs of the white lives matter movement or any propaganda that supports racism of any kind.’ 

Fuller denied racial motivations in her work for the campaign and said, ‘My intention was only to support an endangered species.’

She took time to directly apologize to communities of color that experience racism daily.

‘I would like to specifically apologize to people of color that are affected by racism daily,’ she said. ‘It was never my intention to add fuel to the racial fire in this country.’

Fuller said she has learned from the controversy, and that moving forward, she hopes to speak out against racism.

She said: ‘This has truly been an educational moment for me and I hope to be a voice against racism moving forward. I hope I can be shown grace as I navigate through this process.’

Fuller modeled the clothing for a Marlin Lives Matter organization in an effort to save the species and other pieces included ‘blue lives matter,’ a frequent retort to the Black Lives Matter movement in defense of police officers.

Though along with the ‘white lives matter,’ slogan, other clothing, not modeled by Fuller but included in the campaign featured designs similar to a Confederate flag.

White Lives Matter was previously deemed a ‘racist response to the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter, is a neo-Nazi group that is growing into a movement as more and more white supremacist groups take up its slogans and tactics,’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Once photos surfaced online as Fuller competes for the love of pilot Peter Weber on the ABC show, she was slammed online and lost a Cosmopolitan cover. 

 She was also called out in February for her DWI arrest in 2017.

The Virginia native was sentence to a year in jail for driving while intoxicated in her hometown of Virginia Beach on August 25, 2017, according to Page Six.

The sentence, however, was suspended and she was ordered to serve 24 months of probation, the outlet reported.