We’re in Thailand for this week’s episode of The Bachelor, but we don’t get to see any of this beautiful country because the camera will not stop focusing on Colton’s abs. Honestly, the scene of him showering outside went on so long I thought the only drama we’d see this episode would be whether or not there’s enough soap.
Eventually, finally, we move on to “Never Been Kissed” Heather’s one-on-one date with Colton. They take a boat out to a floating island, while Heather assures us, repeatedly, that she would like to kiss Colton at some point today. But, yikes, this date. It basically consists of Heather watching Colton eat. She doesn’t want to bring up the whole kissing thing to him because, “I really hate talking about things that are going on.” What an insane thing to say. You hate talking about things that are going on? What are things that aren’t going on? Unicorns? Pigs flying? A watchable Super Bowl halftime show?
Instead, they just stare into the sunset while she repeatedly goes, “Mmmm.” (Are they having fun? What is this date?)
Meanwhile, back at the resort, Elyse is feeling “heartbroken” over seeing Colton go on date after date with other women. Did she know she signed up for The Bachelor? She wants more validation that he’s on the same page, which, fair. And what a perfect time for the group date card to arrive. It’s addressed to Demi, Caelynn, Hannah B., Sydney, Tayshia, Kirpa, Onyeka, Nicole, Hannah G., and Elyse. That means Cassie gets the one-on-one. Elyse cries.
That night, Colton tells Heather he had “an absolute blast” and she “blew it out of the water.” How and why? Did they cut all the footage that showed these two enjoying themselves? I know The Bachelor is not the realest reality show out there, but this feels…forced. Anyway, Colton asks Heather about her past relationships and TL;DR she dated a guy for eight months and they never kissed. Even Colton, our Virgin Bachelor, is like, “Excuse me, ma’am. What?” Then Colton says he’s concerned that she hasn’t kissed anyone, which puts Heather in the awkward position of insisting that she’s ready and hasn’t been waiting this whole time for some “magical moment.”
So Colton gives her the rose, and they walk to a beach where they kiss for the first time beneath some fireworks. After, the show wastes no time changing Heather’s nickname to “Has Been Kissed.” Bless.
Heather returns to the women’s suite and tells everyone what happened. Watching Elyse, 31, do her best to maintain a neutral face while Heather, 22, describes being kissed for the first time is my most favorite thing. Then, while Heather’s still talking, Elyse just gets up and walks out of the room. Nobody knows what’s going on, but they all agree that she looked “really good” in her “statement dress.” Co-sign.
Elyse heads straight to Colton’s room to tell him that she wants all the time and attention a real relationship deserves. They have a heart-to-heart, during which Elyse admits she could never accept a proposal after sharing him with other women. “You want something that I can’t promise,” she says. (So much better than “I hate talking about things that are going on.”)
Again, I’m not totally sure what show Elyse thought she was signing up for—but there was something amazing about seeing a women on this show know what she is worth. So much so that she’s willing to remove herself from a relationship that isn’t delivering. Colton, however, is confused why she “gave up” on their relationship. I guess he wasn’t listening at all.
Tonight’s episode of The Bachelor was emotional, important, and potentially triggering for anyone who’s experienced sexual assault. Please keep that in mind as you read our recap. If you’d like to speak to someone about sexual assault, don’t hesitate to reach out to RAINN’s hotline at 800-656-HOPE (4673).
Hi, everyone! Anna Moeslein, your normal, hilarious Bachelor recapper, is currently getting her life at the Sundance Film Festival, so I’m filling in. I can’t promise the same wit, but I can promise I’m just as annoyed with Demi as you are.
Now, on to tonight’s happenings…
Caelynn and Hannah B. are acutely aware everyone knows they hate each other, but there’s bigger things to think about because Chris Harrison swoops in and announces that the women are going to Singapore. Hannah G. doesn’t know where Singapore is, and all I want to do is send her a digital copy of Crazy Rich Asians so she can get caught up.
But even the excitement of an international trip won’t distract The Bachelor from this Caelynn and Hannah B. situation, I guess. We pan to Colton walking solo in Singapore, drinking a gross-looking green juice and thinking about the women’s feud. Shortly after, the contestants arrive and Nicole muses about how she wants to go on a solo date with Colton. Girl, so does everyone else.
Instead, the solo date goes to Tayshia, easily one of the most iconic girls in the group. Hannah B. says, “You’re gonna have so much fun” to Tayshia, but she’s really thinking, “You’re now number-two on my list, next to Caelynn.” The passive aggression is really jumping out this episode.
Colton’s documenting his Singapore trip on a web cam, which I’m sure is supposed to be “authentic” and “cool” but I’d categorize it more as “creepy.” “I’m hoping today we don’t die,” he says about his date with Tayshia. Way to set the bar low, dude. Tayshia’s too good for you!
They’re going bungee jumping, which is my worst nightmare. Falling from an extreme height just for fun? Hard pass. Keep it. Tayshia and Colton are stoked about it, though, and they do make a cute couple.
All this dramatic music is making me think they’re going to back out of the bungee jumping. The fact producers have to turn this random activity into a drama plot point is a sign of how boring this season is. Colton jumps first. Then Tayshia. They both make it out OK because of course they do.
Colton takes off his shirt, because this is The Bachelor after all. Tayshia changes into a bathing suit, and they hang out on the beach. They make out in the water. I’m so bored. They went bungee jumping, and I’m still so, so bored.
The Singapore B-roll footage is shaping up to be the best part of this episode. At Tayshia and Colton’s dinner, she opens up about how she married her first boyfriend and they divorced last year. Colton talks about his divorced parents. They bond over divorce. Now seems like a good time to plug the divorce week content we published on Glamour a few weeks back. Read it! Tayshia gets a rose, and she and Colton cuddle on a ferris wheel. All this is making me think is, “Wow, I really want to go to Singapore.”
Group date card time: Hannah G, Elyse, Kirpa, Sydney, Heather, Onyeka, Tracy, Nicole, Demi, Courtney, Katie, Cassie, and Hannah B. This means Caelynn gets the second one-on-one, which drives Hannah B. to down a glass of red wine.
Demi jumps in and says she’s pissed more time is being devoted to this feud, and Caelynn is basically like, “Thank U, Next.” Caelynn seems truly unbothered by the entire situation which makes her a legend in my eyes.
During her first solo date with Colton Underwood on tonight’s episode of The Bachelor, Caelynn Miller-Keyes opens up about being sexually assaulted in college. “It’s the most difficult thing in the world,” she tells him during their conversation. “It’s affected every single person in my life. It’s so painful.”
In an interview with People published before the episode aired, Caelynn said, “My life was flipped upside down. And even though I’ve moved on, it is something I will struggle with forever.”
The incident, Caelynn tells People, happened at a party during her sophomore year of college after her wine glass was drugged. “I woke up the next morning, and I was completely naked in my bed, and I knew that something bad had happened,” she says. A friend at the party alleged that one of the men there assaulted Caelynn. A second male, according to Caelynn’s other friend, lifted her dress in front of his fraternity brothers. “They watched and laughed and took photos and Snapchats. It was horrible,” Caelynn tells Colton on tonight’s episode.
“These situations happen when you’re safe,” she tells People. “They don’t necessarily happen when you’re walking down a dark alley. It’s when you’re comfortable and when you let your guard down.”
According to Caelynn, a hospital initially told her they wouldn’t do a rape kit unless she filed a police report. “At that point, these were friends of mine and I wasn’t entirely sure what had happened, so I wasn’t positive I wanted to file a police report. But later that night, I did, once I figured out what had really happened,” Caelynn says. “The reporting process is a lot more difficult than people realize. I had no idea what to do. I was completely stranded, I was completely alone. I didn’t even think it was possible to be turned away from a hospital. Thankfully, I had a good support system and people went to a second hospital with me and I was able to get a rape kit and speak to authorities and go through that process. But it’s a lot more difficult than it seems.”
By the time she visited the hospital again, Caelynn says enough time had elapsed that the results were inconclusive. Only one man from the situation was expelled from Caelynn’s college. The others faced no repercussions.
“Even though they got away with it, I’m happy that I still fought,” Caelynn says. “I can live with myself and know that at least I tried and I pushed and I went after justice.”
Bachelor fans—as well as Colton—quickly took to Twitter to commend Caelynn for speaking out. Below, just a few reactions:
Caelynn isn’t revealing the names of the men involved. “I’ve detached myself in a way from the perpetrators because I felt like that was the healthiest thing to do. I don’t want to have to keep reliving it. I was able to forgive the men,” she tells People. “And once you’re able to do that, you’re able to take that power back. I hope they’ve learned from that experience and that they never do it again.”
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Caelynn Miller-Keyes wasn’t sure she liked Colton Underwood at first. “I think [I was asked what I thought] the day after Bachelor in Paradise aired, and I said, ‘Uh, not really into him. I think he’s kind of a jerk,'” she told Glamour a few weeks before The Bachelor premiered. As the season progressed, though, her opinion changed, and she was able to open up to him about serious, more personal issues—like in tonight’s episode. In a watershed Bachelor moment, Caelynn revealed on her one-on-one date that she was sexually assaulted. “It’s the most difficult thing in the world,” she told him. “It’s affected every single person in my life. It’s so painful.”
People magazine published the story about Caelynn’s reveal before the episode aired. “My life was flipped upside down,” she tells the magazine. “And even though I’ve moved on, it is something I will struggle with forever.”
The incident happened during Caelynn’s sophomore year of college at a party. “These situations happen when you’re safe,” she tells People. “They don’t necessarily happen when you’re walking down a dark alley. It’s when you’re comfortable and when you let your guard down.”
Viewers took to Twitter in droves and commended Caelynn for speaking out—as did Colton on their actual date. “He’s a really great guy, and he’s really grown on me,” Caelynn tells Glamour.
Caelynn, who is the reigning Miss North Carolina, was the first girl Colton kissed in the house, and they’ve had a deep connection ever since. Of course, this only grew during tonight’s episode. She says she did “extensive research” on Colton beforehand and was drawn to his philanthropic efforts. “I was hospitalized as a child and given a 10% chance of ever walking again, and I love that he works with children’s hospitals,” she says.
As she advances further and further into this competition, Caelynn admits she’s worried about heartbreak, but she’s optimistic. “I’ve had a lot of heartbreak in my life, so I would hate for that to happen again, but [you have to put] yourself out there,” she says.
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We open tonight with Sydney recapping last week’s drama. She hopes that now, in week three, they’re all past that. Excuse me, ma’am. What show do you think you’re on? Also, recapping The Bachelor is my job. So let’s get to it—spoilers ahead, obviously.
Chris Harrison shows up with a group date card and this extremely helpful advice: “There will be highs, there will lows, that’s the way it goes!” Are you a Dr. Seuss poem now or what? “I bet I’ll be seeing you around,” he says, ominously, as he departs. (I mean, yes, you will because that’s literally your only job around here.)
Anyway, Katie, Heather, Hannah B., Courtney, Kirpa, Tracy, Demi, and Caelynn are all going on the group date. Hannah B.’s annoyed because that means she’ll have to spend even more time competing with Caelynn. (What. Happened. Between. These. Two? There has to be more to it than “I won and she didn’t.”) The date is at some place called Pirate’s Dinner Adventure, which is basically Medieval Times in Pirates of the Caribbean cosplay and an excuse for Colton to wear a deep V.
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The date concept is pretty straightforward: The women are to dress up in pirate gear and compete to star in the show with Colton. He spends most of the time, though, flirting with Caelynn. This bothers Hannah, naturally. “I didn’t come here to compete in another pageant,” she says. (But you kind of did?) And, shock, Caelynn gets to be in the show while the other women watch from the “poop deck.” Demi heckles them by throwing a full turkey leg onto the stage. I wish Demi wasn’t Demi because that is a move I can get behind.
The show ends with Caelynn saving Colton or whatever, which leads Hannah B. to decide that Colton needs to know the truth—or her version of it.
That night at the after party, Colton bonds with Katie while Tracy and Demi bicker about who is more passive aggressive. Again, Demi makes fun of Tracy for being older than her. Demi, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK. STOP.
But no, Demi will not stop. Instead, she interrupts Courtney’s time with Colton so she can blindfold him and spank him with a paddle. Then she rubs a mannequin hand over his crotch. It’s as weird as it sounds, but not to Demi. “I think he really appreciates how I have fun with him,” she says. When she returns to the group, Courtney pulls her aside and asks her to be “more aware” of her tone. Demi’s like, nope.
Colton and Caelynn are having a good time talking/making out while Heather gives Hannah B. horrible advice: Warn him about Caelynn. Here’s better advice: If you are a Bachelor or Bachelorette contestant never, ever do this. It does not end well for the tattletale. Just channel like one percent of Demi’s confidence and mind your own business.
Of course, Hannah B. doesn’t do this. She tells Colton that she and Caelynn were friends and roommates at Miss USA, but there was a falling out. They haven’t talked since. She describes the experience as the most “hostile” environment she’s ever been in—and she’s wondering, if he can like Caelynn so much, how can he like her? Colton responds with a bunch of sighs.
Then he asks Caelynn for her side. She says basically the same thing: They were friends, but they responded differently to being in a competitive environment. She admits that in difficult situations, her response is to get quiet and close off. But that’s because she’s still recovering from some “real life shit.” She wants to open up to Colton about that someday, she adds, but it’s too soon in the relationship right now. Fair. Colton agrees, and he gives her the rose.
The next morning, Colton has a one-on-one date with Elyse. They take a helicopter ride to San Diego, where they spend the day at Belmont Park with a bunch of adorable kids. My favorite is the little girl who screams, “Last one on is a rotten egg!” as she runs to the rides. My spirit animal. I think it’s the same girl who later tells Colton she watched The Bachelorette with her mom all the time. It’s like a glimpse into my future.
After seeing how great Colton was with the kids, Elyse isn’t worried about the age difference anymore. And Colton’s impressed with Elyse’s confidence and independence. Over dinner, he asks where those traits come from and she opens up about how her sister was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant. Elyse’s sister couldn’t do treatments because of the baby, and she passed away. It was tough, she says, but her family loves the baby so much and they created a children’s charity in the sister’s honor.
Fully crying. Wow, Elyse for Bachelorette? Naturally, Colton gives her the rose, and they end their date with one of those signature random “private” concerts.
The next day is a group date with Tayshia, Nina, Catherine, Sydney, Onyeka, Cassie, Nicole, and Caitlin. (Bummer for Hannah G., who doesn’t get any date this week.) The date is yet another excuse to get Colton shirtless—this time, it’s to work out.
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Terry and Rebecca Crews are there to help Colton “find his strong woman.” Apparently they mean this literally—everyone’s working out, even Nicole who is doing her best.
After a few half-hearted pull-ups and some extreme stretching from Sydney, it’s time for a competition. First up, the women are tasked with pushing a 100-pound wedding cake down the aisle. Poor Nicole can’t even move it past the starting line. The second event is a ring toss, which is really just lifting a tractor tire. Last up, they strap a woman to a limo and ask her to pull it. It seems impossible, yet Caitlin, a very small woman, manages to do it. How?!? I’m genuinely impressed with this feat of strength, but somehow she doesn’t make it to the final three. This competition is rigged!
“I’m not the most athletic of the bunch…but I walk my dog!” —Nicole
At the after party, Colton has good moments with Tayshia, Nicole, Onyeka, and Cassie. But when it’s time to talk to Caitlin, she’s all, “I don’t have anything standing out in my life that I want to share right now, but today was great!” Colton asks what she’s looking for in a partner, and she says someone who can go out and be silly with her and her friends. “I’m happy to open up to you about that!” He pushes a little more, and she says she doesn’t know what to open up about because life has been so good. (Raise your hand if you’re feeling a lil bit jealous and maybe resentful of Caitlin right now. Imagine having a life filled with zero problems…). She can’t even answer his question about what a night with her family looks like. After struggling through this awkward conversation, Colton finally tells Caitlin he’s not feeling a spark. She leaves and on her way out complains that she’s the real one and the other girls are all fake. That may be, but at least they have more to talk about than being silly with friends.
The group date goes to my fave, Nicole.
The next day Chris Harrison arrives with a surprise: There’ll be a pool party instead of a cocktail party.
“You’re going to hang out all day, he’s going to have his shirt off!” —Chris Harrison
Sounds fun in theory—too bad Colton spends the whole day dealing with Hannah B. and Caelynn’s drama. Caelynn tells Colton Hannah B. is manipulative and deceitful; Hannah B. claims it’s the opposite. Colton doesn’t know who to believe because he likes them both. “Just freaking trust me,” Hannah says. Oh OK.
The other women are frustrated these two are eating up all of his time. He’s not happy about it either: Colton complains to the producers, and at one point even Chris Harrison steps in to see what’s going on. But when it comes time for the rose ceremony, Hannah B. gets a rose and is staying. (Caelynn, as well as Elyse and Nicole, had roses too.) The rest go to: Hannah G., Tayshia, Katie, Cassie, Kirpa, Sydney, Demi, Tracy, Courtney, Heather, and Onyeka. That means Catherine, Bri, and…Nina?—sorry, she had very little screen time!—are going home. See you next week!
Have I underestimated Colton Underwood? Because his latest tweets have shown more self-awareness than I originally thought was there. Take what he wrote after last week’s premiere, “I know the virginity thing is overplayed…. hang in there! You will find out other things about me, I promise.” A Bachelor…who actually…gets it? Can you believe?
And he’s right—literally the first thing we see after Chris Harrison says, “Tonight on The Bachelor…” is a shot of Colton in the shower while someone shouts, “He’s so hot!”
The point is, I like a self-aware Bachelor, and this gives me hope that the season might exceed expectations after all. The contestants, however, should probably channel some of that energy from Colton because things are getting banana nut crunch in the mansion. So let’s get right to it, shall we? Read our recap for episode two, below, and be aware: Spoilers ahead.
We open with Colton talking about the day ahead via a selfie video. It’s new format for The Bachelor, and I have a feeling it’s just an excuse to sneak in one more shirtless scene. Meanwhile, Chris Harrison arrives at the mansion to drop off the first date card and a little advice: Take advantage of any time you get with Colton. This wisdom is especially important for Demi, Bri, Tracy, Elyse, Hannah G., Nicole, Onyeka, and Catherine, who all have the first group date of the season.
Today’s a damn good day to fall in love. —Chris Harrison
They all arrive at a theater to a big reveal: comedians and married couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are leading today’s date. They ask the women share a story about a “first time” in their life. Oh god, this is a nod to Colton’s virginity isn’t it? We can’t make it 30 minutes without someone bringing up this man’s sexual history. My hunch is confirmed as soon as Megan talks about the first time she had sex—or, as she puts it, “fucked someone.” Nick then describes the first time he “plucked the blossom” of a woman which is really just a story was about gardening….I hope.
“I wasn’t sure I was there for the right reasons.” —Megan Mullally
After a brief writing break, everyone presents their stories to an audience of ~200 people. Colton kicks it off by talking about his virginity. (Of course.) Elyse’s tale is about how she’s always dated old men—until Colton, her “first” younger guy. Demi thinks it’s “so brave” for Elyse to admit this because “there’s no advantage to being an older woman here.” Demi, what. The. Actual. Hell. I was rooting for you. We were all rooting for you!
Nicole describes the first time she dated a white guy, and it’s tragically cut short for Hannah G.’s snoozefest about getting her first impression rose. All we know about Bri’s story is that it’s about the first time she “felt comfortable” in her own skin.
Onyeka just describes saving Colton from “some bitches” on the first night, which prompts Catherine to hit back with her version of that argument. (Not sure what either story has to do with a first time, unless it was their first time being extra-extra.)
When it’s Tracy’s turn, she shares a wild tale about her college days, when she chased after a frat president who was a virgin and a sorority sister punched her in the face over it. It ends with this closing line, “When I got a hold of him he wasn’t a virgin anymore, but it was the best sex he’s ever had.”
Demi starts off by saying there was once someone she wanted to kiss but was too nervous. (Lies. Demi is never nervous.) But, she says, she learned she has to go after what she wants. (That’s the Demi we know.) Then she dramatically throws her notebook down and jumps off stage to kiss Colton in front of everyone.
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Damn. Shots! Are! Fired!
This 100% goes over well with the other women. LOL. But Demi digs in further at the cocktail party, stealing Colton right after his toast for one-on-one time. She says without a touch of irony, “I’m a total woman supporter.” When she returns to the main room, she picks up the group date rose and jokes that it’s hers. This move makes Tracy so “sick to her stomach” that she spends the rest of the night complaining about it to whoever will listen. She eventually confronts Demi, who is like, “Oh, OK. Sorry.” Tracy pets her hair, which I’m not sure is a sign of forgiveness or a power move?
Either way, nothing’s going to keep Demi down. Not Elyse, even though Colton seems into the whole “cougar” thing. Not Nicole, who opens up to Colton about her twin brother having autism. Not even Hannah G., who makes out with Colton while Demi watches from the other room. Nope, Demi thinks Colton needs an aggressive, dominant girl and she is that.
“I am worth the world. I am amazing.” —Demi
Too bad Colton doesn’t seem to be on the same page: He gives the group date rose to Elyse.
The next day, Hannah B. gets a one-on-one date which is appropriate given it’s her birthday. She and Colton ride horses before chilling in a hot tub in the desert. It looks as awful as it sounds. Not helping things is the awkward conversation between Colton and Hannah B., full of long pauses and surface-level topics. At one point, he asks her to give a toast and she says “um” a hundred times before ending with, “Roll tide!”
This must be hard for Hannah B., who admits to the camera (but not Colton) that she puts a lot of pressure on herself. Sometimes she doesn’t feel good enough, and she’s self-aware about it. “When I start doubting myself,” she says, “then it spirals.” This is later confirmed by Caelynn back at the mansion; she tells one of the women that they were roommates during the Miss USA pageant. When Caelynn placed, Hannah B. got upset and “flipped a switch.” Have a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot more of this dynamic in the coming weeks.
Anyway, the dates is so bad that Colton calls Hannah B. out on it later that night, and she admits she was too nervous to open up. Her way of fixing this? To blurt out, “Like, why…are you a virgin?” This works enough to get her the rose.
Things get better the next day, which is a group date for Alex, Erika, Katie, Caelynn, Sydney, Tayshia, Nina, Kirpa, Caitlin, Courtney, Cassie, and Heather. Their destination: Camp Bachelor, where they play Duck Duck Goose, badminton, and touch football. It’s all very boring until my fave Billy Eichner shows up to be the camp counselor.
“Oh, that sounds like my camp experience.” — Billy
I could watch this banter all night, but apparently the point of the day is to have a competition between two teams. The losers go back to the mansion, while the winners get to stay overnight at the camp with Colton. I’ll spare you from recapping the canoe race and rope pulling—just know the red team wins.
They maximize this extra time with Colton, snuggling up to him by the fire and bonding over childhood stories. Heather gets the group date rose, though, for telling Colton she’s never been kissed. Spoiler: They don’t kiss.
At the cocktail ceremony the next night, several of the women are nervous that they haven’t had much time with Colton this week. Demi’s not nervous—because Demi is Demi—but she thinks the “older” women are going to be “aggressive” with the younger ones. What? The oldest women there, Tracy and Elyse, are both 31, which is STILL MUCH YOUNGER than last year’s Bachelor, Arie, who is 37. There is so much wrong with this. Ageism! Sexism! The patriarchy! Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Plus, Demi, if you want to see women being “aggressive” (even though I hate that word) just look at Sydney and Onyeka’s spat. It starts when Onyeka interrupts Sydney’s time with Colton by blasting an air horn in their faces. “I’m feeling just a little bit horny!” she jokes, which Colton probably did not hear because he must be deaf now. This pisses Sydney off, so she she finds her own noisemakers from the kitchen and bangs them in Onyeka’s face. Onyeka responds by calmly telling Sydney she’s not leaving. We never see how this is resolved.
“Is this to give us anxiety? Because we already have it.” —Caelynn
Later, when Tracy is talking to Colton, Demi shows up in a white robe whisks him away to her “fantasy closet.” That ends up just being a rushed over-the-shirt back rub, but everyone still complains this is a rude move. (Side note: Yes, Demi commands a lot of Colton’s time, but what are you all here for? This is The Bachelor, not I Love Being Single.)
I’m still mad at Demi over her “older women” comments, but I do respect her chutzpah. This is a woman who has no qualms yelling, “Hey, ladies! I totally just had an amazinggggg time with him” as soon as she returns to the group. When Tracy tells Demi what she did was “mean,” Demi takes a slow sip of her sangria and says, “You just keep on doing you.” I don’t need all of Demi’s confidence—that might be borderline delusion—but I would like just a teeny, tiny amount of it.
Tracy didn’t need to worry so much anyway—she gets a rose by the end of the night. The others go to Tayshia, Cassie, Caelynn, Courtney, Demi, Nicole, Kirpa, Hannah G., Catherine, Bri, Sydney, Onyeka, Katie, Erika, and Nina. (And, don’t forget, Hannah B., Elyse, and Heather got roses earlier in the episode.)
That means goodbye for Alex, Angelique, Annie, and Caitlin. We hardly knew ya!
See you all next week for: “Look at this flexibility!” “Colton’s not a stretching virgin anymore.” “I am annoyed by this conversation.” “There’s a beautiful monster inside of me.”
