The Ultimatum: Queer Love is a dating reality television series created by Chris Coelen and produced by Kinetic Content. The series premiered on Netflix on May 24, 2023, and is hosted by JoAnna Garcia Swisher. The series is a spin-off of The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On. The second season of the series premiered on Netflix on June 25, 2025, with the first 7 episodes available to stream on that date and the final 3 episodes released on July 2, 2025. On October 2, 2025, it was announced that the series had been canceled after two seasons.
Format The Ultimatum is a self-proclaimed social experiment that wants to see how many couples will get married when presented with ultimatums. The show features couples on the verge of marriage. Each pair has eight weeks to decide whether they want to get married or split forever. Couples will later be split up as they choose new partners from the rest of the group, and then move in with them for three weeks.
Contestants +Season 1Issuing ultimatumAgePartnerAgeXander Boger30Vanessa Papa30Lexi Goldberg25Raelyn Cheung-Sutton27Yoly Rojas34Mal Wright36Mildred Bustillo33Tiff Der32Sam Mark31Aussie Chau42
+Season 2Issuing ultimatumAgePartnerAgeBritney Thompson27AJ Blount28Haley Drexler29Pilar Dizon29Kyle Neal30Bridget Matloff28Marie Robertson27Mel Vitale27Dayna Mathews25Magan Mourad27Ashley Johnson30Marita Prodger25
Season summary Season 1 +Trial marriagesContestantsResultXander and YolySplitLexi and MalSplitRaelyn and VanessaSplitMildred and AussieSplitSam and TiffSplit +OverviewOriginal coupleResultStatusXander and VanessaSplitSplitLexi and RaelynEngagedSplitYoly and MalEngagedSplitMildred and TiffEngagedSplitSam and AussieEngagedEngaged
Season 2 +Trial marriagesContestantsResultBritney and MaritaSplitHaley and MaganSplitKyle and PilarSplitMarie and AJSplitDayna and MelSplitAshley and BridgetSplit +OverviewOriginal coupleResultStatus after ReunionStatus Now (July 2026)Britney and AJEngagedEngagedEngagedHaley and PilarEngagedEngagedMarriedKyle and BridgetEngagedEngagedEngagedMarie and MelEngagedSplitSplitDayna and MaganEngagedEngagedEngagedAshley and MaritaSplitSplitSplit
Episodes Series overview
Season 1 (2023)
Season 2 (2025)
Production Filming The majority of the season was filmed in San Diego, California between September 2021 and November 2021.
The series announced that JoAnna Garcia Swisher would host the series, instead of Nick and Vanessa Lachey who host The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On.
The reunion special was filmed in January 2023, over a year after original production ended.
Release On March 24, 2022, Netflix announced the spin-off ahead of the release of the first season of The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On.
A trailer for the series was released following the fourth season reunion of Love Is Blind.
The series consisting of eight episodes premiered on Netflix on May 24, 2023, with the final episode and a reunion episode being released a week later.
Reception Critical response Lindsay Lee Wallace of Time wrote that the spin-off was a "solid-watch". However, Wallace also expressed disappointment in the series' ability to match reality television standards.
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