The question landed like a slap. On the 90 Day: The Single Life season 5 Tell All, Nicole Jimeno looked at her brother’s new girlfriend and asked what everyone in the room was thinking but nobody wanted to say out loud: was Valentina Malagon after a sponsor?
Pedro pushed back and defended her. Five months after the ring, with no wedding date and no blessing from their mother, fans are still fighting over it — was Nicole protecting her brother, or just doing what this family always does?
The Tell All Question Nobody Wanted to Hear
Nicole’s doubt did not come from nowhere. Valentina is a Colombian psychologist who, according to reports, first messaged Pedro after seeing an Instagram Story of him in Colombia. That is how the love story started.
At the Tell All, Nicole pressed Valentina on her intentions, including whether she was looking for a sponsor. Half the viewers heard a sister asking a fair question. The other half heard the Jimeno family doing to Valentina exactly what it once did to Chantel.
Team Nicole Saw It First: A DM, a Fast Ring, and Five Months of Silence
Team Nicole has a timeline, and the timeline does a lot of the arguing for them. Pedro proposed on June 6, 2026, on a beach in Oahu, under a heart-shaped arch of red roses, with a pear-shaped diamond ring handcrafted by Diamondboi Designs. He told PEOPLE that with Valentina, he had learned “peace has a name.” As of November 2026, no wedding date has been publicly confirmed — no date, no venue agreement, and no blessing from Lidia.
Then came the repost. On October 21, four days after Chantel married Ashley Bowen, Pedro reposted his Hawaii proposal to Valentina. He has not said the repost had anything to do with Chantel’s wedding, so any jealousy theory is fan speculation only. But Team Nicole reads the timing as a man performing a love story instead of planning a wedding — and the couple admit they cannot agree on the venue: Colombia for her, the Dominican Republic for him.
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Team Valentina has a shorter answer: look at the woman, not the DM. Valentina is a psychologist with her own career, not someone who needed a stranger on television to build a life. In early October 2026, she and Pedro were baptized together, sharing their faith as a couple before any wedding.
While Pedro’s wedding sits without a date, Chantel married Ashley Bowen on October 17 at Fountainview Mansion in Auburn, Alabama, in front of about 60 guests, according to PEOPLE. Chantel’s wedding is finished. Pedro’s is still a promise, not a wedding.
The Pattern Nicole Can’t Escape
Nicole has asked this question before. When Pedro brought Chantel home in 2016, the Jimeno family suspected her motives from the start, just as the Everetts suspected his — Karen hired a private investigator to vet her own son-in-law. The marriage did end, with Pedro filing for divorce in May 2022 and the split finalized in 2023.
But Team Valentina hears it the opposite way: the suspicion did not save the marriage, it helped poison it. Now Lidia still has not given her blessing, and Nicole is asking the same question that started the last disaster. If the family was wrong about how it handled Chantel, why trust its instincts about Valentina?
So which side are you on: if Pedro and Valentina set a date tomorrow, does Nicole owe Valentina an apology — or would a date prove nothing, because the real test was never the ring, it was whether the Jimeno suspicion finally stops?
