The job titles of contestants on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette is one of the franchise’s longest-running jokes. There are the usual suspects—real estate agent was especially popular during Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season—but it’s the more questionable careers that get people talking, like “twin” and “sport fishing enthusiast.” It’s a funny concept, to be sure,…
Read moreThere are many things wrong with The Bachelor this season. For one, Peter Kraus—the gap-toothed, wine-loving fan favorite from Rachel Lindsay’s cycle—isn’t the suitor. That fact in itself is upsetting, but to add insult to injury, ABC selected a man whose sole personality trait seems to be his interest in race cars. I’m talking, of…
Read moreBefore we begin our recap of tonight’s The Bachelor episode, I ask for your patience if my thoughts seem scattered. You see, I just learned that Hot Peter will not be joining The Bachelor Winter Games—even though Mike Fleiss promised he would—and I’m still shook. I’ll rise above it, but barely. But let’s move on…
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Well, here we are: another season of The Bachelor with a guy nobody asked for. Perhaps I’m being too hard on Arie Luyendyk Jr., but was it not difficult to watch him struggle through the rose ceremony without dreaming of Hot Peter, Eric, or Kenny in his place? Maybe they’ll get their turn in five…
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PHOTO: Getty Images/Lou Rocco By now, most of us have come to terms with the fact that Arie Luyendyk Jr. is going to be our next Bachelor. No shade to the racing-driver-turned-real-estate-professional who was runner-up on Emily Maynard‘s season of The Bachelorette five (five!) years ago. But until now, everyone’s been kind of asking why…
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