Sixty guests watched Chantel Everett marry Ashley Bowen on October 17, 2026, at Fountainview Mansion in Auburn, Alabama. Four days later, Pedro Jimeno reposted his Hawaii proposal to Valentina Malagon — seven months after he first shared it. Neither ex has said a word about the other. The fans, meanwhile, have not stopped talking since.
So here is the question hanging over all of it: should The Family Chantel come back? River Everett claimed on a livestream in November 2025 that it was returning in July 2026. July passed with no new season, and TLC has confirmed nothing. But if the cameras rolled tomorrow, the show would be a trial, not a reunion — and every fan would already have a side.
Team Chantel: Married, Moved On, and Done Explaining Herself
Chantel is married. She walked down the aisle in a beaded strapless gown to Ashley Bowen, a music artist she met through her brother River at a birthday party. Ashley had proposed on December 17, 2025, at Uhuburg, a Renaissance-style castle in Helen, Georgia. Days after the wedding, TLC shared a clip of the couple declaring, “That means we’re ChantAshley!”
Chantel told her coming-out story on 90 Day: Hunt for Love and married Ashley ten months later. Off camera, she works as a nurse injector in Sandy Springs, Georgia — a registered nurse since 2020. And when Pedro reposted his proposal four days after her wedding, Chantel answered with nothing at all. To her side, that silence is the whole case. She won the second-chance race and does not need a revival to prove it.
Team Pedro: The Quiet Rebuild Nobody Saw Coming
Pedro’s side is the man who stopped performing his marriage for cameras and found peace instead. After filing for divorce in May 2022, following nearly six years of marriage, he stepped out of the weekly storyline machine. He returned for 90 Day: The Single Life season 5, where viewers met Valentina Malagon, a Colombian psychologist who first messaged him after seeing he was in Colombia, according to reports. At the Tell All, he called her “the love of my life.”
On June 6, 2026, Pedro proposed on an Oahu beach under a heart-shaped arch of red roses, with a pear-shaped diamond ring from Diamondboi Designs. Pedro told PEOPLE that with Valentina, he had learned “peace has a name.” The two were baptized together in early October, and Pedro has said he will marry Valentina with or without his mother Lidia’s blessing. No date yet — and no location, since she wants Colombia and he wants the Dominican Republic. To Team Pedro, that unfinished business is why the show should return: his wedding is the final chapter this saga has not filmed yet.
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Here is where both sides hit the same wall. Ashley Bowen is in — not as a guest, but as Chantel’s wife. Pedro is out, engaged to Valentina. Winter Everett is expecting her first child. And the Everetts and the Jimenos have not shared a room in years.
But TLC has said nothing — no wedding special, no new series, not even a congratulatory post. A revival would not be the show that ended in December 2023. It would be a seating-chart negotiation with two new spouses, a baby on the way, and two exes who have both moved on.
The case for yes: the fandom never left, and Pedro’s wedding is still unfilmed. The case for no: the show ended because the marriage ended, and dragging two happy endings back into one frame risks turning them into a fight again. Chantel got her fairy tale. Pedro says he found peace.
But if TLC announced season 6 tomorrow, with Chantel and Ashley on one side of the table and Pedro and Valentina on the other, whose side are you sitting on — and what would it take for you to switch?
