If you’re watching season four but don’t want to have to wait until the season ends to find out, you’re probably looking for spoilers as to whether Shawn and Alliya are still together from 90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise.
There’s a lot of content to consume in the 90-Day Fiancé universe. The original show follows couples who have received a K-1 visa, which is uniquely available to betrothed partners of US citizens. The Other Way is exactly what it sounds like—American couples who move to their partner’s home country. “It’s about love,” 90 Day Fiancé executive producer, Matt Sharp, told Gold Derby in May 2022 when asked what makes the TLC reality TV series so popular.
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“Love is primal, but I think we tapped into a couple of things. One is that this show is incredibly authentic. I’m a huge lover of The Bachelor and that franchise, however, we were one of the first shows to actually tell real stories about ordinary Americans and their love journeys. Also, this show is about this journey with other cultures. When we launched this show in 2014, we were on the ‘love frontier’ of this whole new era of finding people all over the world.”
He continued: “This is the most diverse show on television,” Sharp asserted. “You can challenge me on it. We featured people from 51 countries at this point. We have subtitles. We have people that don’t speak the same language and have completely different cultures. We’re trying to tell unique stories every time and when we’re in the casting process we’re evaluating people based on their personalities, backgrounds and their stories, but also we just want to tell unique, fresh, interesting stories.”
He also explained that the show has no say in the visa process or anything like that. “This is an authentic process,” he explains. “We make a point of having an arm’s length with that process. We’ll check in and say, ‘How’s it going?’ Are there people that we have said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great for the show?” and then a fiancé went through the visa process and they got denied and we didn’t feature them? Of course.” But of course, you can be excited about the drama and want to know how everything ends. Here’s if Shawn and Alliya are still together from 90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise.
Are Shawn and Alliya still together from 90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise?
We’re not sure, but we think so because, during a recent interview, he spoke about his relationship in the present tense. Alliya is relatively active though she hasn’t posted a single photo of Shawn, and until 90 Day premiered, Shawn hadn’t posted on Instagram in almost a year as someone who describes himself as very private. They still follow each other and when she posted about 90 Day Fiance, Shawn liked it.
However, Shawn confirmed he has “a new romance” during an interview with Access Hollywood on April 19, 2024. “Spoiler alert: I’m in love like a crazy man,” he said. “His name is Maxwell, he’s super hot. He has blue eyes, he’s a little bit shaggy…” he continued as he picked up his new puppy to show to the camera.
Some background on Shawn and Alliya, who’ve been together for three years after initially meeting online: “Shawn, a celebrity hairstylist from New York, first met Alliya online. Alliya was assigned male at birth and began embracing her femininity while dating Shawn. As the couple progresses on this journey of learning more about themselves as well as each other, will their initial feelings and attraction towards each other grow stronger or will the two grow apart?”
In a clip for the premiere episode, Shawn said that Alliya was “the most amazing person I’ve ever met,” in while chatting with his hairdresser. But things are far from perfect. “When I first met Alliya, she was he and he was Douglas. Yeah, it’s a little complicated.”
In a voiceover, he explained further. “Alliya’s biologically male and when I met her, she went by Douglas. He would wear makeup, but always then boy clothes, boy masculinity, boy hair. So I didn’t think anything of it. And then, about a year and a half into our relationship, everything started to change.”
90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise airs on Mondays at 8 pm EST on TLC.
