AJ Blount and Britney Thompson were one of the six couples who put their relationship to the test by going to “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” together.
Britney, 27, a registered nurse and an entrepreneur, gave her longtime partner of five years, AJ, 28, the ultimatum. She believed AJ wasn’t committed to the idea of marriage, while AJ thought she became a second fiddle to Britney’s business.
In an interview with TODAY.com, Britney shares that she used to watch “The Ultimatum” and couldn’t understand why anyone would give their partner an ultimatum. Then she changed her mind.
“I saw the value in it when I started to apply it to my own relationship. Those were our everyday conversations. So you don’t take a risk, then you don’t get a reward,” she says.
After their three-week trial marriage to their respective partners — AJ with Marie Robertson and Britney with Marita Prodger — ended, the two say the grew.
Here’s what came next, in AJ and Britney’s own words.
Do AJ and Britney get engaged in the finale?
In the finale, AJ popped the question to Britney.
“From the beginning of our relationship and until now, you’ve blown me away. I’ve never had a love like you,” Britney said on the show.
Their relationship is still going strong. So much so that while speaking to TODAY in an interview, AJ says, “Tell her I love her and tell her I said hi.”
Discussing Ultimatum Day, AJ says proposing was an easy choice.
“It just even made it more special, having that moment with her. And I can’t wait to see it again,” AJ tells TODAY.com. “I probably watched it 30,000 times in the hotel, but I can’t wait to watch it again and just know that our love is literally there for any time that we want to relive that.”
In the reunion, AJ also upgraded Britney’s ring with a shinier flair. “I had to make sure she got right because the ring I got her before wasn’t what she needed to be,” she says.
Britney is very enthusiastic about the episodes dropping, so she can freely share the news.
“I don’t have to hide that I was gone for two months in Miami and that I was on a show, and then that me and AJ are in this relationship and having to worry about posting each other,” Britney shares with TODAY.com. “I am just happy to be authentically myself.”
What is Marita and Britney’s relationship like now?
Marita and Britney are still very close friends after their trial marriage.
With Marita, Britney learned about having a work-life balance and to become much calmer when stressful things arise.
“I think her just being so calm and also yet so positive and radiant, it helped me not to overthink and spiral and also not only be busy, but get upset or frustrated with being busy,” Britney tells TODAY. “I think it allowed me to take a deep breath and just know that everything’s going to be OK, and that allowed me to be more calm with my decision-making and how I plan out my day.”
AJ shares that Marita was her biggest cheerleader in her proposal. In the reunion, they shout her out for help, reassuring AJ that Britney’s love for her will come before her business.
AJ jokes that she was shocked Britney cooked Marita oxtail.
“Oxtails are expensive. They are a delicacy. They are rare. It is hard,” AJ tells TODAY. “You do not cook any woman oxtail. You just don’t do it. So to watch it and then for Marita to say, ‘Yeah, she cooked me oxtail,’ I’m like, ‘All right. Now I’ve got to be the bad guy.’ It could have been chicken or fettuccine Alfredo!”
According to Britney, her cooking also had some of the producers’ bellies rumbling.
“Lowkey they were like, yo, are they going to finish that?” Britney reveals. “And I shared it. I’m like, please take it. I had a whole pot. I was like, ‘Please take it.’”
What is AJ and Marie’s relationship like now?
Unlike Britney and Marita, AJ and Marie didn’t stay close after their trial marriage. “AJ did best that AJ could,” Marie said in the reunion.
AJ, on her end, wishes they were able to stay close.
“I think our dynamic shifted because she was starting to receive a different response from her ex. She wanted what, at the time, me and Brittany shared — mutual respect,” AJ says in her interview.
“I don’t fault her for that because I would be just as devastated or raising bloody hell if Britney didn’t speak to me in the hallways.”
