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* BreakoutCharacter: If there has been one contestant both the Bachelor Nation and the Producers love its Tayshia Adams. She started out as one of the favorites during Colton's season, then her romance with John Paul Jones became one of the bigger and more popular focuses during "Bachelors In Paradise", and finally with great fanfare, after Clare Crawley left the Bachelorette, Tayshia was brought in to take her place. And after Tayshia's season wrapped up, she was brought on to host, alongside Kaitlyn Bristowe.
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** If there has been one contestant both the Bachelor Nation and the Producers love its Tayshia Adams. She started out as one of the favorites during Colton's season, then her romance with John Paul Jones became one of the bigger and more popular focuses during "Bachelors In Paradise", and finally with great fanfare, after Clare Crawley left the Bachelorette, Tayshia was brought in to take her place. And after Tayshia's season wrapped up, she was brought on to host, alongside Kaitlyn Bristowe.
** Likewise Hannah Brown has constantly been brought back in various roles for the franchise, as a mentor, friend and confident to the Bachelors and Bachelorettes that have followed in her wake, often as a reminder of how she has served as a template for an A grade Bachelorette, consistently tempering her kindness and compassion with her ferocity and refusal too take any shit from anyone.
** If there has been one contestant both the Bachelor Nation and the Producers love its Tayshia Adams. She started out as one of the favorites during Colton's season, then her romance with John Paul Jones became one of the bigger and more popular focuses during "Bachelors In Paradise", and finally with great fanfare, after Clare Crawley left the Bachelorette, Tayshia was brought in to take her place. And after Tayshia's season wrapped up, she was brought on to host, alongside Kaitlyn Bristowe.
** Likewise Hannah Brown has constantly been brought back in various roles for the franchise, as a mentor, friend and confident to the Bachelors and Bachelorettes that have followed in her wake, often as a reminder of how she has served as a template for an A grade Bachelorette, consistently tempering her kindness and compassion with her ferocity and refusal too take any shit from anyone.
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In 2023, it was announced that a senior-focused spin-off called ''The Golden Bachelor'' had been greenlit. It is set to premiere on September 28th that year, with widower Gerry Turner cast as the first titular bachelor.
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In 2023, it was announced that a senior-focused spin-off called ''The Golden Bachelor'' had been greenlit. It is set to premiere premiered on September 28th that year, with widower Gerry Turner cast as the first titular bachelor.
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* ManipulativeEditing: The show frequently edits footage and dialogue to make everything more dramatic, with the Bachelor(ette)s and the contestants all having to sign contracts that include lengthy clauses that state the show's producers are permitted to misrepresent them in any way they see fit.
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* ManipulativeEditing: The show frequently edits footage and dialogue to make everything more dramatic, with the Bachelor(ette)s and the contestants all having to sign contracts that include with lengthy clauses that state the show's producers are permitted to misrepresent them in any way they see fit.
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In 2023, it was announced that a senior-focused spin-off called ''The Golden Bachelor'' had been greenlit and would be premiering later on September 28th that year, with widower Gerry Turner cast as the first titular bachelor.
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* TokenMinority: The shows usually will have one or two non-white contestants per season who never win and rarely even get close to winning. And when they do, it's often a case of ButNotTooBlack, with light-skinned black people or white Hispanics.
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* TokenMinority: The shows usually will have one or two non-white contestants per season who never win and rarely even get close to winning. And when they do, it's often a case of ButNotTooBlack, with light-skinned black people or white Hispanics.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Usually at least one a season. Clare Crawley's one to Juan Pablo is likely the most famous and scorching example in the franchise.
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* PictorialLetterSubstitution: ''The Bachelor'' and ''The Bachelorette'' each have a wedding ring where the o would be in the title logo.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: The women are usually barefoot while in the house.
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* TestingTheLoveInterest: The Bachelor does this on a lot of dates.
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* BigSisterInstinct: It is not uncommon for some of the older contestants to take younger ones under their wing.
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* RealityShowGenreBlindness: It has its own section.section, but two big aspects merit a special mention:
** If you're a contestant having a personal beef with another contestant, the Bachelor(ette) generally will have a VERY low tolerance for your whining about the other contestant and how mean they are. In fact, their most likely reaction will be to get rid of both of you so they don't have to worry about who was right or wrong. Season 23's Hannah and Caelynn (whose beef dated from when they were rival Miss [=USA=] contestants) figured this out quickly and made peace with each other, resulting in the two of them having long runs on both that season and the franchise itself.
** If you're a contestant having a personal beef with another contestant, the Bachelor(ette) generally will have a VERY low tolerance for your whining about the other contestant and how mean they are. In fact, their most likely reaction will be to get rid of both of you so they don't have to worry about who was right or wrong. Season 23's Hannah and Caelynn (whose beef dated from when they were rival Miss [=USA=] contestants) figured this out quickly and made peace with each other, resulting in the two of them having long runs on both that season and the franchise itself.
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* RealityTVShowMansion: A Mediterranean-style Malibu mansion has been used to host both shows from 2004 until 2020, when the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic forced the show to film in quarantined resorts.
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* RealityTVShowMansion: A Mediterranean-style Malibu mansion has been used to host the first few episodes of both shows from 2004 until 2020, when the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic forced the show to film in quarantined resorts.resorts. By 2022, it was again in use.
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** The first, ''Bachelor Pad'', was a more traditional reality competition show where the former contestants where split by gender and competed against each other ''Series/Survivor''-style for the first few weeks, then as pairs for the last leg of the competition. It also had a twist that at the end the winning couple had to [[PrisonersDilemma vote separately on whether to keep the $250,000 prize for themselves or share it between the two of them]]. If they both voted share, they would both receive $125,000. If one voted share and the other voted keep, the one who voted keep would get the whole prize. If they both voted to keep, then ''neither'' would win, and the prize would be distributed amongst the eliminated houseguests. The series lasted three seasons.
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** The first, ''Bachelor Pad'', was a more traditional reality competition show where the former contestants where split by gender and competed against each other ''Series/Survivor''-style for the first few weeks, then as pairs for the last leg of the competition. It also had a twist that at the end the winning couple had to [[PrisonersDilemma vote separately on whether to keep the $250,000 prize for themselves or share it between the two of them]]. If they both voted share, they would both receive $125,000. If one voted share and the other voted keep, the one who voted keep would get the whole prize. If they both voted to keep, then ''neither'' would win, and the prize would be distributed amongst the eliminated houseguests. The series lasted three seasons.seasons, ending when Season 3's winner convinced his new Bachelor Pad girlfriend to vote "share." He voted "keep" (which meant he got the entire prize), then dumped her on the spot. The show was pretty much broken at that point, as future contestants likely would have pulled the same trick.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Several of the Bachelors and contestants.
** Ben Higgins is a regular volunteer of the Baker Youth club in his hometown. He even brought Amanda's daughters along on their beach date.
** Colton Underwood acts as a spokesperson for a charity that helps children with cystic fibrosis and invites a group of them to join him on his carnival date. Contestant Elyse Dehlbom is shown share this quality with Colton; clearly enjoying the surprise group date with them and being really with good with the kids.
* HaremGenre: Probably the best-known non-Japanese example.
** Ben Higgins is a regular volunteer of the Baker Youth club in his hometown. He even brought Amanda's daughters along on their beach date.
** Colton Underwood acts as a spokesperson for a charity that helps children with cystic fibrosis and invites a group of them to join him on his carnival date. Contestant Elyse Dehlbom is shown share this quality with Colton; clearly enjoying the surprise group date with them and being really with good with the kids.
* HaremGenre: Probably the best-known non-Japanese example.
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* ChildHater: Cassidy from Clayton's season. During a children birthday group date hosted by Hilary Duff, she is completely indifferent to the success the party and does little to no work in setting it up; just lazes around trying to cozy up to Hilary and Clayton. Cassidy even practically admits to not liking kids when speaking to the birthday girl herself!
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* ChildHater: Cassidy from Clayton's season. During a children children's birthday group date hosted by Hilary Duff, she is completely indifferent to the success the party and does little to no work in setting it up; up, spending the day just lazes around trying to cozy up to Hilary and Clayton. Cassidy even practically admits to not liking kids when speaking to the birthday girl herself!
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* Does Not Like Shoes: The women are usually barefoot while in the house.
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* ChildHater: Cassidy from Clayton's season. During a children birthday group date hosted by Hilary Duff, she is completely indifferent to the success the party and does little to no work in setting it up; just lazes around trying to cozy up to Hilary and Clayton. Cassidy even practically admits to not liking kids when speaking to the birthday girl herself!
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* EverybodyHasStandards: "Queen" Victoria can be a tad...haughty, and admits she doesn't have any problems stealing Matt from other girls during a group date. However, Victoria states she would never do this on a group date she herself was not a part of like Sarah did to Katie. Victoria even encouraged Katie to go back and get her time with Matt back from Sarah.
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As of this writing, 26 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 17 of ''The Bachelorette'' have aired. The former show started in 2002, the latter in 2003. The final pairings haven't exactly been successful...
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* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
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* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple couples from Season 12 is and Season 18 are still engaged. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
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As of this writing, 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 17 of ''The Bachelorette'' have aired. The former show started in 2002, the latter in 2003. The final pairings haven't exactly been successful...
* Out of 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'', 15 ended in proposals; nine ended without a proposal but an agreement to keep dating; and one ended with no one picked for any kind of relationship. Only one final couple eventually got married (from Season 17); they now have three children. The bachelor from Season 13 called off his engagement with the winning woman on the season finale and resumed a relationship with the runner-up; they married in a nationally televised ceremony, and also have a child. The Season 22 bachelor did the same thing; he and his runner-up are married and have three children. The Season 25 couple broke up briefly but got back together. The other couples broke up, with one doing so after the woman was arrested for assaulting her fiance.
* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the second couple from season 16 and the couple from Season 17. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
* ''Bachelor in Paradise'' has had a fairly decent rate of success with its couples; five of the 21 couples[[note]] Season 2's Jade and Tanner, Season 4's Raven and Adam, Season 5's Astrid and Kevin, and Season 6's Hannah and Dylan and Caelynn and Dean[[/note]] spawned from that show are still together. On top of that, two couples have spawned from former contestants (the Season 11 bachelorette and the second runner up from Season 14 of ''The Bachelorette'', and the third runner up from Season 11 of ''The Bachelorette'' and the ninth place finisher from Season 22 of ''The Bachelor'') who got to know each other outside the show.
* Out of 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'', 15 ended in proposals; nine ended without a proposal but an agreement to keep dating; and one ended with no one picked for any kind of relationship. Only one final couple eventually got married (from Season 17); they now have three children. The bachelor from Season 13 called off his engagement with the winning woman on the season finale and resumed a relationship with the runner-up; they married in a nationally televised ceremony, and also have a child. The Season 22 bachelor did the same thing; he and his runner-up are married and have three children. The Season 25 couple broke up briefly but got back together. The other couples broke up, with one doing so after the woman was arrested for assaulting her fiance.
* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the second couple from season 16 and the couple from Season 17. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
* ''Bachelor in Paradise'' has had a fairly decent rate of success with its couples; five of the 21 couples[[note]] Season 2's Jade and Tanner, Season 4's Raven and Adam, Season 5's Astrid and Kevin, and Season 6's Hannah and Dylan and Caelynn and Dean[[/note]] spawned from that show are still together. On top of that, two couples have spawned from former contestants (the Season 11 bachelorette and the second runner up from Season 14 of ''The Bachelorette'', and the third runner up from Season 11 of ''The Bachelorette'' and the ninth place finisher from Season 22 of ''The Bachelor'') who got to know each other outside the show.
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As of this writing, 25 26 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 17 of ''The Bachelorette'' have aired. The former show started in 2002, the latter in 2003. The final pairings haven't exactly been successful...
* Out of25 26 seasons of ''The Bachelor'', 15 ended in proposals; nine ten ended without a proposal but an agreement to keep dating; and one ended with no one picked for any kind of relationship. Only one final couple eventually got married (from Season 17); they now have three children. The bachelor from Season 13 called off his engagement with the winning woman on the season finale and resumed a relationship with the runner-up; they married in a nationally televised ceremony, and also have a child. The Season 22 bachelor did the same thing; he and his runner-up are married and have three children. The Season 25 couple broke up briefly but got back together. The other couples broke up, with one doing so after the woman was arrested for assaulting her fiance.
* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is stillengaged, as are the second couple from season 16 and the couple from Season 17.engaged. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
* ''Bachelor in Paradise'' has had a fairly decent rate of success with its couples;five 11 of the 21 28 couples[[note]] Season 2's Jade and Tanner, Season 4's Raven and Adam, Season 5's Astrid and Kevin, and Season 6's Hannah and Dylan and Caelynn and Dean[[/note]] Dean, and season 7’s Kenny and Mari, Joe and Serena, Thomas and Becca, Noah and Abigail, Brendan and Pieper, and Chris and Alana [[/note]] spawned from that show are still together. On top of that, two couples have spawned from former contestants (the Season 11 bachelorette and the second runner up from Season 14 of ''The Bachelorette'', and the third runner up from Season 11 of ''The Bachelorette'' and the ninth place finisher from Season 22 of ''The Bachelor'') who got to know each other outside the show.
* Out of
* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still
* ''Bachelor in Paradise'' has had a fairly decent rate of success with its couples;
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: The viewers are reeled into thinking the villainous Shanae will survive her 2-on-1 date with Genevieve, but Shanae ends up getting sent home, and after that, Mara starts displaying more catty behavior.
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** While this didn’t receive as much backlash, Shanae also referred tocalling herself “Shanae-nae.”as “Shanae-nae”, a stereotypical “ghetto” name often used to demean black woman.
** While this didn’t receive as much backlash, Shanae also referred to
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For nearly two decades, the franchise's shows were all hosted by Chris Harrison, who stepped down in 2021 due to audience backlash against his poor handling of a racially-charged incident during the show's first season with a Black bachelor.[[note]]Harrison had attempted to defend one of the show's contestants for her past attendance of an "antebellum South ball", an event that romanticized the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar pre-Civil War]] era of race-based slavery, during an interview hosted by Rachel Lindsay, the show's first Black bachelorette. Harrison had felt pressured to do so in part because said contestant had ''been proposed to'' (something he couldn't reveal at the time), but his dismissal of Lindsay's concerns led to her distancing herself from the franchise.[[/note]] ''The Bachelorette'' is currently hosted by former bachelorettes Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe; ''Paradise'' has featured a rotating cast of celebrity [[GuestHost guests]], while future seasons of ''The Bachelor'' are set to be hosted by former bachelor [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Jesse Palmer]].
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For nearly two decades, the franchise's shows were all hosted by Chris Harrison, who stepped down in 2021 due to audience backlash against his poor handling of a racially-charged incident during the show's first season with a Black bachelor.[[note]]Harrison had attempted to defend one of the show's contestants for her past attendance of an "antebellum South ball", an event that romanticized the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar pre-Civil War]] era of race-based slavery, during an interview hosted by Rachel Lindsay, the show's first Black bachelorette. Harrison had felt pressured to do so in part because said contestant had ''been proposed to'' (something he couldn't reveal at the time), but his dismissal of Lindsay's concerns led to her distancing herself from the franchise.franchise and massive audience backlash.[[/note]] ''The Bachelorette'' is currently hosted by former bachelorettes Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe; ''Paradise'' has featured a rotating cast of celebrity [[GuestHost guests]], while future seasons of ''The Bachelor'' are set to be hosted by former bachelor [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Jesse Palmer]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Every season of The Bachelorette features this type of character. Justin "Rated R" Rego from Ali's season, Bentley from Ashley's season, Chad from Jojo's season. Sometimes they make it far, other times they don't.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Every season of The Bachelorette ''The Bachelorette'' features this type of character. Justin "Rated R" Rego from Ali's season, Bentley from Ashley's season, Chad from Jojo's season. Sometimes they make it far, other times they don't.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the Season 17 Bachelorette Katie learned that one of the contestants, Thomas, had admitted to coming on the show in hopes of becoming the next season's Bachelor, she called him up just as she was due to give out the final rose. It initially looked like she'd accepted his apology and was going to give him another chance--but she actually told him that she didn't believe he was sincere and to GetOut
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the Season 17 Bachelorette Katie learned that one of the contestants, Thomas, had admitted to coming on the show in hopes of becoming the next season's Bachelor, she called him up just as she was due to give out the final rose. It initially looked like she'd accepted his apology and was going to give him another chance--but she actually told him that she didn't believe he was sincere and to GetOutGetOut.
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As a season begins, we meet the bachelor, a "smart, handsome, successful man" who has it all. Now he's supposedly looking for someone to share it with. He's introduced to some two dozen beautiful women. They go on group and one-on-one dates, and based on the "connections" they form. he narrows the field and chooses one to spend the rest of his life with (though that rarely happens).
Women are eliminated in a "rose ceremony", in which the bachelor gives a rose to the women who will continue in the romantic journey[[note]]competition[[/note]]. Most episodes are said to feature "the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!" Most other developments are hyped as "shocking!" but have usually been shown in their entirety in the previous episode's OnTheNext, or even going-to-commercial previews.
As of this writing, 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 17 of its DistaffCounterpart, ''The Bachelorette'', have aired. The former show started in 2002, the latter in 2003. The final pairings haven't exactly been successful...
Women are eliminated in a "rose ceremony", in which the bachelor gives a rose to the women who will continue in the romantic journey[[note]]competition[[/note]]. Most episodes are said to feature "the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!" Most other developments are hyped as "shocking!" but have usually been shown in their entirety in the previous episode's OnTheNext, or even going-to-commercial previews.
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happens). Women are eliminated in a "rose ceremony", in which the bachelor gives a rose to the women who will continue in the romantic journey[[note]]competition[[/note]]. journey/competition.
The show's massive success led to the creation of a DistaffCounterpart, ''The Bachelorette'', with all the same tropes applying with the genders of the contestants swapped. Most episodes are said to feature "the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!" Most other developments are hyped as"shocking!" "shocking" but have are usually been shown in their entirety in the previous episode's OnTheNext, OnTheNext or even going-to-commercial previews.
The success of the sister shows have resulted in a sprawling universe of spin-offs, usually featuring former contestants from various previous seasons. The most popular by far is ''Bachelor in Paradise'', where a rotating cast of former contestants stay at a Mexican beach resort and vie for a limited number of roses held by the opposing sex. This typically results in a handful of stable couples and a messy LoveDodecahedron of contestants trying to either form one of their own or stick around a few more weeks to meet someone new or extend their vacation/screentime. Other spinoffs have included ''Bachelor Pad''[[note]]former contestants stay in a mansion and compete for a cash prize[[/note]], ''The Bachelor [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Winter Games]]''[[note]]former contestants drawn from around the world compete in winter sports[[/note]], and ''The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart''[[note]]musicians date each other[[/note]]. The show has also inspired [[FollowTheLeader countless copycats]] and [[MultiNationalShows international versions]] in over twenty countries.
As of this writing, 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 17 ofits DistaffCounterpart, ''The Bachelorette'', Bachelorette'' have aired. The former show started in 2002, the latter in 2003. The final pairings haven't exactly been successful...
The show's massive success led to the creation of a DistaffCounterpart, ''The Bachelorette'', with all the same tropes applying with the genders of the contestants swapped. Most episodes are said to feature "the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!" Most other developments are hyped as
The success of the sister shows have resulted in a sprawling universe of spin-offs, usually featuring former contestants from various previous seasons. The most popular by far is ''Bachelor in Paradise'', where a rotating cast of former contestants stay at a Mexican beach resort and vie for a limited number of roses held by the opposing sex. This typically results in a handful of stable couples and a messy LoveDodecahedron of contestants trying to either form one of their own or stick around a few more weeks to meet someone new or extend their vacation/screentime. Other spinoffs have included ''Bachelor Pad''[[note]]former contestants stay in a mansion and compete for a cash prize[[/note]], ''The Bachelor [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Winter Games]]''[[note]]former contestants drawn from around the world compete in winter sports[[/note]], and ''The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart''[[note]]musicians date each other[[/note]]. The show has also inspired [[FollowTheLeader countless copycats]] and [[MultiNationalShows international versions]] in over twenty countries.
As of this writing, 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 17 of
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The success of the sister shows have resulted in a sprawling universe of spin-offs, usually featuring former contestants from previous seasons. These have included ''Bachelor Pad''[[note]]former contestants stay in a mansion and compete for a cash prize[[/note]], ''Bachelor in Paradise''[[note]]former contestants stay at a Mexican beach resort[[/note]], ''The Bachelor [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Winter Games]]''[[note]]former contestants drawn from around the world compete in winter sports[[/note]], and ''The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart''[[note]]musicians date each other[[/note]]. It has also inspired [[FollowTheLeader countless copycats]] and [[MultiNationalShows international versions]] in over twenty countries.
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* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the couples from season 16[[note]]Though Clare and Dale, the first couple from season 16, briefly broke up[[/note]] and the couple from Season 17. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
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* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the couples from season 16[[note]]Though Clare and Dale, the first second couple from season 16, briefly broke up[[/note]] 16 and the couple from Season 17. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
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* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children and are still married. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the couples from season 16[[note]]Though Clare and Dale, the first couple from season 16, briefly broke up after their engagement[[/note]] and the couple from Season 17. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
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* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children and are still married.children. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the couples from season 16[[note]]Though Clare and Dale, the first couple from season 16, briefly broke up after their engagement[[/note]] up[[/note]] and the couple from Season 17. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]
* ''Bachelor in Paradise'' has had a fairly decent rate of success with its couples; five of the 21 couples[[note]] Season 2's Jade and Tanner, Season 4's Raven and Adam, Season 5's Astrid and Kevin, and Season 6's Hannah and Dylan and Caelynn and Dean[[/note]] spawned from that show are still together. On top of that, two couples have spawned from former contestants (the Season 11 bachelorette and the second runner up from Season 14 of ''The Bachelorette'', and the third runner up from Season 11 of ''The Bachelorette'' and the ninth place finisher from Season 22 of ''The Bachelor'') who got to know each other outside the show.
* ''Bachelor in Paradise'' has had a fairly decent rate of success with its couples; five of the 21 couples[[note]] Season 2's Jade and Tanner, Season 4's Raven and Adam, Season 5's Astrid and Kevin, and Season 6's Hannah and Dylan and Caelynn and Dean[[/note]] spawned from that show are still together. On top of that, two couples have spawned from former contestants (the Season 11 bachelorette and the second runner up from Season 14 of ''The Bachelorette'', and the third runner up from Season 11 of ''The Bachelorette'' and the ninth place finisher from Season 22 of ''The Bachelor'') who got to know each other outside the show.
