Bachelor in Paradise alum Kat Izzo is looking forward to a clean slate in the new year.
“All D.M.’s left in 2025 💀,” Kat, 29, wrote via TikTok on Friday, January 2, alongside a video of herself lip-synching to Nicki Minaj saying, “I took some time off to rest and now it’s game time, bitches.”
Without concretely explaining her 2026 plans, eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice that the “D.M.” initials could refer to a social media direct message or Kat’s ex-boyfriend Dale Moss.
“Caption is crazyyyy love it tho,” one TikTok follower replied, while another added, “You deaded it fr,” both of which Kat “liked.”
Kat and Dale, 37, started dating on Bachelor in Paradise season 10 last summer despite multiple love triangles. As other women pursued Dale, he stressed to Kat that she had nothing to be concerned about since he “deaded” the conversations. (Kat, meanwhile, was confused since “deaded” is not a word in the dictionary.)
Us Weekly confirmed in November 2025 that Kat and Dale broke up months after leaving the BiP beaches as an official couple.
“[There’s] no engagement talks or anything like that,” Dale previously said on a September 2025 episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “I think, like, you have the show and we built the foundation there. When we talk about after the show [ended] in June, it was still a deep exploration phase for both of us.”
He continued, “We had many conversations, things that sprung up with both of us [and] weren’t created by the other partner. Now, moving forward, we’re just in a very, very strong place.”
According to Dale, he predicted that the pair would reach many relationship milestones together.
“I was never a big dater before. For me, it’s always been taking [the] time to meet someone and get to understand them well,” Dale said. “The relationship will form in its own [time], but I’m not trying to waste my time. I’m not trying to waste anyone else’s time. We’re not just going to casually hang out. There’s certain things that you share ‘cause you’re proud of, but there’s also things that you keep tight.”
Despite keeping their relationship private, Dale admitted he still had plenty of affection for Kat.
“Like I said on the show, I love and care for Kat deeply,” he revealed at the time. “We have all these conversations of what it looks like if [our future includes a] kid, a home [and] what we want. I’ve never fazed [being in] a relationship.”
Kat, meanwhile, revealed she also felt “the love is there” between the then-couple.
“We do express that to one another. Now, we’re moving to the fact that we’re going to be public, and then it’s going to have its own things,” Kat said. “Honestly, we can probably grow even deeper. It’s still really difficult to try to build a relationship in private [and while doing] long distance.”
Kat was briefly engaged to John Henry Spurlock after they met during BiP season 9, which was filmed in 2023. Dale, meanwhile, had proposed to Clare Crawley on her season 16 of The Bachelorette in 2020. After the pair broke up the next year, Dale dated HGTV personality Galey Alix.