Bachelor couple, Louise and Blake have announced overnight that they’ve split after one and a half years of dating.

The controversial couple got together after Blake originally proposed to Sam Frost in the final episode of the Bachelor (season two). He then publicly back-pedaled on the proposal and decided to start dating the second runner-up on the show, Louise.

Blake spoke to New Idea about the split, saying, “We were walking on eggshells around each other, always trying to say the right thing … It was suffocating.”

Louise went on to say that the fact that she wasn’t his first choice in the show made it hard for her in the relationship.

They reportedly did three months of counselling to try and save the relationship, but after being unhappy for so long, it was too little, too late.

Louise moved from NSW to Perth to be with Blake, however, she is apparently coming back to home to be with her family.

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