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DeAnna Pappas wishes nothing but the best for The Bachelorette star Jillian Harris, who recently moved to Chicago to live with fiance Ed Swiderski.

She’s just not sure it’s gonna work out.

“I do hope it works out for them; the odds are against them,” DeAnna told Us Weekly, though she did add that the couple is doing better than ever.

“Supposedly Jillan and Ed are still together, and head over heels in love. I haven’t hung out with them, but we have mutual friends, and they say they are crazy about each other,” Jillian’s Bachelorette predecessor added.

“It seems to be working so far.”

It was a difficult summer for Jillian and Ed, thanks to rumors that he slept with Lindsey Johnson a week after proposing to her on the reality show.

Another woman, Bethany Steffen, says he tried to get in her pants a week later. DeAnna Pappas’ take? She wasn’t that surprised by the report.

DeAnna Pappas, who famously chose the wrong guy on The Bachelorette finale, won’t say if Ed was the wrong pick for Jillian. But she wasn’t a big fan of Swiderski.

“I wasn’t an Ed fan while [Jillian Harris] was filming the show,” she said. “I think some people go on [The Bachelorette] with different intentions.”

“Maybe they are not open in the beginning what their intentions are,” she told Us Weekly, without elaborating. “So in the end, you get duped.”

Another controversial reality couple from The Bachelor franchise’s recent history, Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, also still on, Pappas reports.

“They are so happy, and I do think that they are going to get married,” she said of the two. “They really just get each other, it works for them.”

Will Jillian and Ed last?