*Millions watched Charity Lawson’s marriage proposal on “The Bachelorette” on Monday night’s season 20 finale.
The three-hour finale of the hit ABC dating series saw Lawson choose Dotun Olubeko after a journey for with with two dozen suitors. The episode brought in 2.99 million viewers and a 0.53 rating in the key broadcast demographic among adults 18-49, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures, according to TheWrap.
Dotun and Charity made history as the first monoracial Black couple to get engaged on the show. As Black Enterprise reports, Michelle Young and Nayte Olukoya became the first Black couple to get engaged on the series in 2021. Young and Olukoya, who is biracial and of Nigerian-Swedish descent, are no longer together, ET reported in 2022.
On Monday’s finale episode, Charity cried when Dotun proposed.
“You’ve inspired me, you’ve taught me, you’ve shown me that a good thing can really be a good thing,” Dotun said.
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“You have made me feel adored, validated, and wanted, and to receive that from a woman of your caliber, Charity, I don’t think you’ll ever understand what that means to me,” Dotun said, as reported by Bachelor Nation. “I am certain that I want to spend the rest of my life showing you, 100%. I just want you to know that I am fully committed to you as you stand here in front of me, and I wouldn’t change a thing about you.”
Charity told her soon-to-be fiancé, “I’ve always said that being here and being along this journey has taught me that one conversation can change everything. When I think of that moment and when I think of you, it takes me back to Oceanside when we shared that incredibly special moment that changed my life, truly, forever.”
Per Bachelor Nation, she added, “When I looked in your eyes in that moment, I saw a man that respected me, that valued me, that adored me, and a man that I could love forever. You have made me feel alive. You made me believe in love again. You have made me feel so valued and so seen. So Dotun, when I stand here in this moment, I want a forever future with you. I see you as my husband, I see you as my future, I see it so clear. I don’t have any doubts. I don’t question it. I love you so much.”
When Dotun asked for her hand in marriage, Charity replied, “A million times yes… I love you so much.”
At the end of the episode, the 27-year-old child and family therapist from Columbus, Georgia, said, “I’m ready to take on the world with him by my side.”
According to his ABC bio, Dotun is a 31-year-old integrative medicine specialist from Brooklyn, New York.
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