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The Bachelor Colton Underwood Has a Lot to Say About Cassie and That Fence Jump


Heads up: Spoilers for the most recent episode of The Bachelor are ahead.

“Holy f–k, he’s gone,” is most likely something Chris Harrison never thought he’d say on this—or any—season of The Bachelor. Actually, Colton, a franchise staple since last spring, probably didn’t think he’d run off into the Portuguese countryside looking to escape the cameras either. But love on reality TV will do that to you—especially when it’s not reciprocated.

Love him or leave him, you couldn’t help but feel sorry for the fence-jumping former football player when he poured his heart out to Cassie, only to have her admit she’s not “in love” with him and doesn’t think she can get there. The whole thing is a mess, so it’s no wonder Colton felt like his only option was to hop a fence and go rogue.

But what about Tayshia and Hannah G.? Will Colton—who’s said he wants to be engaged from day one—propose to either of them? Or will he try to get Cassie back before she heads home to the states? With a week to go before we get those answers, Colton sat down with Glamour to talk about the details of the fence jump, and whether he wishes he would have listened to all those warning signs. “You haven’t even seen it all yet,” he teases.

OK, we must talk about the fence before anything else. Did you get splinters? How did you know you could even make it over?

Colton Underwood: It was metal, so I didn’t get splinters. To be honest, I wasn’t even thinking about not making it over. It was the last thing on my mind. I’m just very happy I stuck the landing and didn’t fall ungracefully over it. I’m very happy about how the actual performance of the jump went. [Laughs]

Did you hurt yourself at all? And how long after you jumped over the gate did the producers find you?

Colton: I didn’t hurt myself. And I was gone for quite a bit. Hours.

Do you regret scaring Chris and the producers by disappearing for so long?

Colton: No, I think in that moment I needed time to myself. I needed to sit and process everything. You guys don’t get to see too much behind the scenes, but you’re always sort of around producers and TVs. You’re always talking to somebody, so to have space, to have time to yourself, was much needed in that moment.

You don’t like talking about regrets—but now that we know what happens with Cassie, do you wish you had listened more to Katie and Kirpa?

Colton: No, because those two aren’t in the relationship with Cassie [and me]. You can only speak from your experiences, and it was a lot of she said/she said and I heard it from this, I heard it from that…no one actually heard it. I think one thing I realized is I have to follow my heart and trust my gut and think, how does this person make me feel? I didn’t see any red flags in any of my relationships. I really didn’t.

But do you understand why some viewers might be angry with Cassie for getting to this point and then saying she’s not ready? Especially because you’ve said it was your biggest fear all along.

Colton: Yeah, I think everybody goes through this in their own way. There’s no right way to really do this. I could see why people’s opinions are probably going to be like, “So why did you say you didn’t say that when you weren’t really there?” I think that’s what was probably most frustrating about that night for me too—putting my heart out there and breaking every unwritten Bachelor rule that there is of laying it all out there and fighting for somebody. It was tough.



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The Bachelor Season 23, Episode 8 Recap:


When Colton meets her family, it’s awkward and tense. Understandable, given that the last guy she brought home was her ex-husband. When Colton reveals he’s falling in love with Tayshia, her dad says, “That’s a strong word.” He digs in further, “How could you fall in love—if you are in love—with more than one person?” Colton stumbles through some answers before asking for the dad’s blessing. Tayshia’s father pauses. “I just met you,” he finally says. Then he does not give his blessing. A twist!

“I’m not marrying her father, but I am going to need his permission,” Colton grumbles. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” You really don’t need his permission, Colton, but I live for this drama so let’s go with it. Also, it turns out Tayshia’s brother is on track to become an FBI agent. He casually jokes that he’ll hunt Colton down one day, so things are going well. Meanwhile, Tayshia’s dad asks what would happen if Colton proposed right now. She admits she’d say yes, and her dad scolds her: You can’t microwave relationships, he says. But then, before Colton and Tayshia leave, he tells them both he’s “content” with giving his blessing. Ugh, Dad, stand your ground!

Last up, Colton goes to Huntington Beach, California for Cassie. She teaches him how to surf. Kind of. I don’t know what Colton’s worse at: learning how to eat dinner rolls like a gentleman or learning how to surf.

During a break, Colton asks Cassie if she’s in love with him yet. She pauses and mutters, “Ummm.” After some more stuttering, she says she thinks she knows how she feels but she can’t say it yet. This is good enough for Colton, I guess, despite him telling us weeks earlier this is his greatest fear.

The visit with her family didn’t help, either. Her dad shrugs as he describes Colton as “you know, a guy.” Cassie admits to her sister she’s not ready to be engaged. Her sister is like, leave. When Cassie and her dad have a one-on-one chat, they quibble. He asks a few reasonable questions about why his daughter would get engaged to a man she met on a reality show, to which Cassie is all, “DaaAaaAdddduhhh, I know what I’m doing! Why don’t you trust me?!?” The dad’s like, “You are 23.”

(Side note, part two: I would like to point out that it’s insane for everyone to behave as if marriage is the only outcome here. Cassie is 23, of course she’s not sure about getting engaged. And that’s one-hundred percent fine. As Cassie’s dad puts it, “I think you need more than a couple random dates to fall in love with someone.”)

Colton asks Cassie’s dad for his permission, but he replies it would be premature to give his blessing. YES. Before he leaves, Colton asks Cassie again if she’s in love with him. She still can’t say it. Sir, this is what the other women warned you about. Yet he has “no clue” what to do.

When the women gather for the rose ceremony, Colton gives roses to Hannah, Tayshia, and Cassie. He walks the now-dumped Caelynn out, and she tells him she feels blindsided. She describes feeling stupid for having feelings that weren’t reciprocated, but Colton SAYS NOTHING. He just nods and gives her a weak hug. What a monster.

On the bright side, we will finally know why Colton jumps the fence next week! I can’t wait.



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The Bachelor Season 23, Episode 7 Recap: Who's Telling the Truth?


After a week full of eliminations and not one, not two, but three warnings, tonight’s episode of The Bachelor was a little lower energy. Still, a lot went down so let’s get right into it, shall we? Spoilers ahead.

The episode opens with Colton filming a late-night video about his feelings. (So emo.) Long story short, he’s confused and upset because three different women warned him that some of the other dozens of women he’s dating aren’t ready for marriage. To be honest, this doesn’t feel like that groundbreaking of a reveal to me—statistically speaking, at least one woman there doesn’t want to marry a guy she’s known two weeks, right? But Colton says this is his “biggest fear.”

He has good news, though: “We’re heading to Denver!” Woo.

Once stateside, Colton meets up with former Bachelor Ben Higgins for a drink and “advice.” Colton needs it: The hometown dates are next week, so the stakes! Are! High! Oh, and he’s falling in love with multiple people and feels weird about it. Ben’s advice? “Lean in!” (My advice would be “yes, that is weird which is why you should just pick one,” but nobody’s asking me.)

When Colton joins the women later that day, he brings his dog, Sniper, along. Their first reaction upon seeing Sniper is “OMG DOG!” I don’t think they even notice that Colton’s there too, which…yeah, that feels right. Unfortunately instead of more Sniper content, Colton has to take one of the women on a date.

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Tayshia is the chosen one, and their date consists of sitting in the loudest food market of all time. Seriously, I could barely heard their conversation—so what a convenient, not-at-all annoying place and time for Tayshia to drop the “I know who isn’t ready for marriage” bomb. At first, Tayshia tells Colton she’s not going to name any names because she’s not a tattletale. Then, not two seconds later, she’s all, “It’s Cassie and Caelynn!!!”

She claims she heard through the grapevine they were talking about their Bachelorette chances and all the parties they’ll get to attend after the show ends. Again, this isn’t that big of a reveal—even the winners go to events after the show ends. Who cares? I don’t think Colton does, but he is listening when Tayshia says they’re not ready to get engaged.

This throws Colton off, but he puts it on the back burner to concentrate on enjoying the rest of the date. He takes Tayshia to his apartment, where they play games and talk about hometowns. She says her family, dad especially, might be tough because they’re still processing her divorce. This doesn’t phase Colton, and he gives her the rose. They end the night making out in his room, which he describes as the spot “where the magic doesn’t happen.”

The next day, Colton takes Caelynn snowboarding. It’s uneventful—until he tells her about the conversation with Tayshia. It’s all a lie, Caelynn insists. Once she’s away from Colton, she tells a producer, “Dude, I better get a rose because I will call that bitch out.”

When they meet up later for dinner, Colton cries because he’s so confused. Caelynn assures him that she’s there for him and ready to be engaged. She feels like she can be herself with him, she says, and it’s scary that a lie could compromise that. She was planning to tell him, before all of this happened, that she’s falling in love. This reassures Colton, and he gives her the rose and says he’s falling in love too.

The next morning, Caelynn confronts Tayshia. When asked why she would call her out, Tayshia claims everyone noticed that she and Cassie were the most nervous after Katie warned Colton. So, she says, they’re probably the guilty ones. “If I really wanted to talk smack about you,” she adds, “I would be talking smack about you every single day, but I haven’t.” That’s her evidence? Tayshia doesn’t seem like a liar to me—but those receipts are weeeeaaaak.



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Demi Burnett Doesn't Even Remember Submitting Herself for The Bachelor


Caution: Spoilers for The Bachelor ahead.

Demi Burnett established herself early on this season as one of The Bachelor‘s most controversial contestants. Her attitude toward the “older” women on the show—any woman over 27, that is—was not well-received, nor was that “Fantasy Closet” stunt she pulled at the expense of Tracy’s time with Colton.

Her boldness, though, shouldn’t have come as a surprise to viewers. Her first statement to Colton when she exited the limo on night one was out there, to say the least. “I haven’t dated a virgin since I was 12 but looking forward to giving it another shot,” she said to him, who’s only response was, “Boy, I’m in trouble.” She was also quite open about her family: Her mother, at the time the show premiered, was in prison for embezzlement and only a short time away from release.

But ultimately, Demi’s journey was short-lived on the show. After telling Colton she was falling in love, he realized he wasn’t feeling the same way and sent her home. It’s been quite the ride for the 23-year-old Texas native, who says she doesn’t even remember signing up for The Bachelor in the first place. “I think me and my girlfriends were having wine one night, and we got on [the site]. I didn’t think anything would ever come of it, but it did. So that was very exciting,” she tells Glamour.

Demi admits she didn’t know much about Colton before going on the show, but her dad did some research. “My dad approved, and that’s all I needed to hear,” she says. “I usually don’t bring a lot of guys around or anything, so he ensured me that [Colton] would be worth it.”

Going into this process, Demi says she was most afraid of getting her heart broken—though that fear faded away the more she thought about it. “Heartbreak is a part of life, and that’s something you can learn from,” she explains. “I choose to be pretty optimistic.”

It’s unclear what—or who—is in Demi’s future, but she’ll have her family, including her mother, to lean on. “Family is huge for me,” she says. “I think that without your family you don’t have a lot of people that truly have your back. Your family is a very, very strong core that you need to have in life to survive in this world.”

To learn more about Demi Burnett, follow her on Instagram here.

—Reporting by Alize Emme





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The Bachelor Season 23, Episode 6 Recap: Is Anybody Here for the Right Reasons?


Be warned: Spoilers for The Bachelor ahead.

This week’s Bachelor episode skipped the usual Colton-is-shirtless-omg montage and started in media res with Onyeka and Nicole’s drama. There’s a lot going on. Colton’s pacing the beach; the women are shocked and confused; Onyeka and Nicole are, somehow, still fighting over who’s the bigger bully.

What a perfect time for the rose ceremony! Nicole whispers a prayer and crosses herself. The roses go to Caelynn, Tayshia, Kirpa, Demi, Hannah G., Katie, and Sydney. That means, you guessed it, Onyeka and Nicole are eliminated. They’re both sad to go—but happy the other one isn’t staying.

The next morning, Colton wanders around the beach, brooding. (Guess I spoke too soon about no shirtless moments.) This mood doesn’t last too long, though, because things are looking up: They’re in Vietnam now, and he’s got a hot date with Hannah G. to look forward to.

They go to a day spa, where Colton spends the whole time either making out with Hannah G. or talking about how much Hannah G. turns him on. (“I would eat that sushi roll,” he jokes, about her.) They make out in a mud bath. They make out in the shower. At one point, they make out on a massage table so vigorously that I would not blame the fine people of Vietnam if they built a wall to keep American reality stars out.

Colton and Hannah G. spent so much time making out, they don’t really talk until dinner that night. Hannah G. warns Colton that opening up is not her “jam,” but he suggests that it can be a good, healthy thing to do in relationships. So, she talks about her parent’s divorce and the first time she realized they were no longer a family. She gets the rose.

Back at the resort, the women find out Cassie, Heather, Tayshia, Caelynn, Katie, Hannah B., Sydney, and Demi will be going on this week’s group date. (Kirpa has the next one-on-one.) There are a few disappointed tears about losing out on a solo date—even Demi, the world’s most confident woman, cries.

The women learn Vovinam, a Vietnamese martial art—in other words, one of those competition dates that pits the women against each other. And so, I’m not going to spend too much time on it. Just know there were some giggles, some punches, and Demi had a minor freak out after she got punched in the face. Even Colton is like yeeesh, I regret this.

That night, everyone is feeling insecure about their relationship status. I keep coming back to The Bachelor, but I have to question my commitment after watching a beautiful pageant contestant tell a scoop of vanilla ice cream, “I’m sooOoOoO wEiRddDDd! How will you ever love me?!” A variation of this happens every season, and it is increasingly hard to stomach.

That said, he is very sweet with Demi when she asks if they can call her mom, who has just been released from prison.

His time with Sydney, however, does not go as well. She complains he’s taking “easier choices” with the people he’s pursuing, but I’m not sure what that means—isn’t a smooth, happy relationship the goal here? Whatever, Sydney is leaving and she drops some advice on her way out: “There are wonderful people in that group. Find them. Don’t get distracted by shiny things.”

Colton puts her suggestion into action right away, giving Tayshia the group date rose because she keeps “challenging” him.

The next day is Kirpa’s solo date, but the most memorable thing about it is the fact that her mysterious bandage is gone. (PS: Colton told us the story behind that.) There’s not much to say other than Kirpa reveals she was engaged before—he was a virgin too, FWIW—but it ended when their relationship grew stagnant. Colton acknowledges that he and Kirpa are moving slower than the others, but he gives her the rose anyway.



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Get to Know Onyeka Ehie From The Bachelor


Onyeka Ehie established herself early as one of the key players on The Bachelor this season. There was her memorable opening interview, which included the quote, “If I was the person Colton gave his virginity to I would definitely bring out all the tricks.” And she wasted no time calling out Catherine for monopolizing Colton’s time during the first cocktail party. Then there’s the whole drama with Nicole. Mix in the fact that she literally called herself “weird and obnoxious,” and you have all the makings for a Bachelor standout.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t translate to Colton’s heart. Onyeka said goodbye to the 26-year-old in tonight’s episode, ending a journey that only started a few weeks ago—at least on television.

The 24-year-old Dallas native says she signed herself up for The Bachelor. “I definitely had a lot of outside influence from people at work and my close friends because I’ve been single for five years and I’ve never been in love before,” Onyeka says. “That’s partially because I’ve been working on myself a lot and my career and I’m very picky. Honestly, the dating scene in Dallas is great, but I haven’t found anyone to connect with.”

Connection is something Onyeka has been craving for a while. She’s looking for real love—not just a relationship because it “makes sense.” “I want to be with someone because it’s what I want and I feel it. I know that when I’m in love with someone, I’ll know it. It’s kind of like an orgasm,” she says, laughing.

Of course, Onyeka wanted that person to be Colton. Aside from just being a “genuine guy,” two things about him drew her in. “He upholds really strong Christian values, and I grew up in the Christian church, so that’s important to me…and he’s hot.”

Onyeka grew up in a traditional Nigerian family, and she says a deal-breaker for her is someone who can’t assimilate into that. “I didn’t know if Colton had ever dated a black girl before,” she says. “That wasn’t a fear, but a question almost. My parents are very open to me [dating a white guy], but they want to make sure that he’s aware if he’s with me he’s not just dating a girl that’s African American; he’s dating a girl that has a very strong Nigerian culture. My parents are very traditional, so being in a relationship with me comes with a lot of traditional aspects. If he’s willing to adapt to those, then my parents are 100% on board.”

Things might not have worked out for her and Colton, but Onyeka has someone very exciting to go home to: her dog, Smoky. “He’s my favorite,” she says. “It was hard going so long time without seeing him.”

To learn more about Onyeka Ehie, follow her on Instagram here.

— reporting by Alize Emme





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