The Bachelor | |
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Season 26 | |
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Starring | Clayton Echard |
Presented by | Jesse Palmer |
No. of contestants | 30 (31 initially) |
Winner | Susie Evans |
Runners-up | Gabby Windey Rachel Recchia |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | January 3 – March 15, 2022 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | September 29 – November 21, 2021 |
Season chronology | |
The twenty-sixth season of The Bachelor premiered on January 3, 2022, with Jesse Palmer as host. [1] This season featured 28-year-old Clayton Echard, a medical sales representative from Eureka, Missouri. [2]
Echard finished in eighth place on the eighteenth season of The Bachelorette featuring Michelle Young.
The season concluded on March 15, 2022, with Echard's final choice, 28-year-old wedding videographer Susie Evans, rejecting him. Evans was the first person in the show's history to reject the lead's proposal. However, during the live After the Final Rose special, it was revealed that they had since gotten back together, and they moved in together in Virginia Beach, Virginia in April 2022. [3] They announced their breakup on September 23, 2022. [4]
In August 2021, it was reported that men from The Bachelorette who had been considered for the lead role were Tyler Cameron and Mike Johnson from season 15; Ben Smith from season 16; and Greg Grippo, Andrew Spencer and Michael Allio from season 17. Spencer and Allio eventually went on to compete in season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise . [5] [6] [7] [8]
On September 15, 2021, media outlets reported that Clayton Echard was named the Bachelor. The next day, the production crew was reported in his hometown of Eureka, Missouri filming footage for this upcoming season, just one week after the filming of season 18 had concluded. Echard was officially announced as The Bachelor on November 30, 2021. [9] [10] [11]
On September 28, 2021, it was announced that season five bachelor Jesse Palmer would host the season, replacing former host Chris Harrison. Harrison departed the franchise in June following backlash after his support for Rachael Kirkconnell, the winner of the previous season, whose photos resurfaced of her attending an Antebellum South-themed party. [1] [12]
Notable contestants include Hurricane Sandy survivor Daria Rose; Denver Broncos cheerleader Gabby Windey, who is the ex-girlfriend of The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise contestant Dean Unglert; Olympic sprinter Marlena Wesh, who represented Haiti at the 2012 Summer Olympics; Miss Virginia USA 2020 and Miss USA 2020 competitor Susie Evans; Miss South Carolina Teen 2015 and top 10 finalist at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2016 Sarah Hamrick; Miss Teen America 2013 Lindsay Dobbs; and Oppenheim Group realtor Kate Gallivan, who appeared in the series Selling Sunset . [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
Filming began on September 29, 2021, at The Bachelor mansion in Agoura Hills, California, marking the return to the mansion for the first time since the twenty-fourth season. [18] Filming was reported in Houston, Texas at NRG Stadium; in October 2021 in Iceland in November 2021; at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík; and at Ingólfsskáli Viking Restaurant in Ölfus. Additionally, the season includes visits to Toronto, Ontario, Hvar, Croatia and Vienna, Austria. Croatia and Iceland were initially planned to visit in the sixteenth season of The Bachelorette, however, plans were cancelled at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to travel restrictions. [2] [19] [20]
Actresses Hilary Duff and Nicole Eggert, comedians Ziwe Fumudoh and Russell Peters, former Bachelorettes Kaitlyn Bristowe and Becca Kufrin, Houston Texans players Jonathan Greenard and Kamu Grugier-Hill, and musicians Restless Road and Chris de Burgh made guest appearances this season. [21] [22] [23] [24]
33 potential contestants were revealed on September 25, 2021. [25]
The final cast of 31 women was announced on December 15, 2021. [26]
However, one of the contestants, Salley Carson, a 26-year-old spine-surgery robot operator from Greenville, South Carolina, made the decision to drop out of the show just hours before the limo arrived. As a result, only 30 women participated in the show. [14]
Name | Age | Hometown | Occupation | Outcome | Place | Ref |
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Susie Evans [27] [28] | 28 | Poquoson, Virginia | Wedding Videographer | Winner | 1 | [29] |
Gabriela "Gabby" Windey [16] [30] | 30 | O'Fallon, Illinois | ICU Nurse | Runner-Up (Week 10) | 2–3 | |
Rachel Recchia [31] | 25 | Clermont, Florida | Flight Instructor | |||
Susie Evans | (Returned to competition) | Week 9 | [lower-alpha 1] | [32] | ||
Serene Russell [33] | 26 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Elementary School Teacher | Week 8 | 4 | [34] |
Teddi Wright [31] [35] | 24 | Redlands, California | Surgical Unit Nurse | Week 7 | 5 | [24] |
Sarah Hamrick [14] [36] | 23 | Spartanburg, South Carolina | Wealth Management Advisor | 6 | ||
Genevieve Parisi [37] [38] | 26 | Rehoboth, Massachusetts | Bartender | 7 | ||
Eliza Isichei [39] | 25 | Tampa, Florida [lower-alpha 2] | Marketing Manager | Week 6 | 8–9 | |
Mara Agrait [40] [41] | 32 | Collingswood, New Jersey | Entrepreneur | |||
Hunter Haag [42] | 28 | Lake Wylie, South Carolina | Human Resources Specialist | Week 5 | 10–11 | [43] |
Marlena Wesh [27] [39] | 30 | Virginia Beach, Virginia | Former Olympian | |||
Shanae Ankney [44] | 29 | Sycamore, Ohio | Recruiter | 12 | ||
Jillian "Jill" Chin [37] | 26 | Scituate, Rhode Island | Architectural Historian | Week 4 | 13–15 | [23] |
Lyndsey Windham [45] | 28 | Orange, Texas | Industrial Sales Representative | |||
Sierra Jackson [46] | 26 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Yoga Instructor | |||
Elizabeth Corrigan [47] | 32 | Highlands Ranch, Colorado | Real Estate Advisor | Week 3 | 16–18 | [22] |
Kira Mengistu [40] | 32 | Greensboro, North Carolina | Physician | |||
Melina Nasab [46] | 27 | West Hollywood, California | Personal Trainer | |||
Ency Abedin [48] | 28 | Burbank, California | Sales Manager | Week 2 | 19–21 | [21] |
Kate Gallivan [17] | 32 | Clarksville, Tennessee | Real Estate Agent | |||
Tessa Tookes [46] | 26 | Stamford, Connecticut | Human Resources Specialist | |||
Cassidy Timbrooks [49] | 26 | Cave Creek, Arizona | Executive Recruiter | 22 | ||
Daria Rose [50] [51] | 24 | Baldwin, New York | Law Student | Week 1 | 23–28 | [52] [53] |
Hailey Malles [51] | 26 | Orlando, Florida | Pediatric Nurse | |||
Ivana Noble [51] | 31 | Snellville, Georgia | Bar Mitzvah Dancer | |||
Jane Paik [51] | 33 | Santa Monica, California | Social Media Director | |||
Lindsay Dobbs [51] | 27 | Warner Robins, Georgia | Neonatal Nurse | |||
Rianna Hockaday [45] [51] | 26 | Mount Pleasant, Texas | Registered Nurse | |||
Samantha Jeffries [51] | 26 | Dayton, Ohio | Occupational Therapist | 29 (quit) | ||
Claire Heilig [27] [51] | 28 | Virginia Beach, Virginia | Spray Tanner | 30 |
Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey were chosen as co-leads for season 19 of The Bachelorette . [54]
Eliza Isichei, Ency Abedin, Genevieve Parisi, Hailey Malles, Hunter Haag, Jill Chin, Kate Gallivan, Kira Mengistu, Lyndsey Windham, Mara Agreat, Salley Carson, Sarah Hamrick, Serene Russell, Shanae Ankney, Sierra Jackson, and Teddi Wright returned for season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise . [55] Haag, Malles, and Mengistu were eliminated in week 1. Wright, Jackson, and Carson quit in week 2. Mengistu returned in week 2 and left in a relationship with Romeo Alexander later that day. Chin and Hamrick quit in week 3, the latter had to leave due to the death of a family member. Abedin, Windham, and Agrait quit in week 5. Isichei and Gallivan split from Rodney Mathews and Logan Palmer, respectively, in week 5. Ankney and Parisi split from Joey Young and Aaron Clancy, respectively, in week 6. Russell got engaged to Brandon Jones in week 6.
Isichei, Recchia, and Samantha Jeffries returned for season 9 of Bachelor in Paradise . [56] Jeffries was medically removed in week 2. Recchia quit in week 4. Isichei got engaged to Aaron Bryant in week 5.
Rianna Hockaday and Tessa Tookes returned for the second season of Bachelor in Paradise Canada . Hockaday was eliminated in week 1. Tookes got engaged to Joey Kirchner in week 6.
Gabby Windey was chosen to participate in season 31 of Dancing with the Stars partnering with Val Chmerkovskiy. [57] They finished the competition as the runner-up. [58]
Claire Heilig competed on the 24th season of The Voice . She was a member of Team Gwen, and was eliminated in the Battle Rounds.
Order | Bachelorettes | Week | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
1 | Sarah | Teddi | Susie | Eliza | Rachel | Gabby | Teddi | Susie | Susie | Rachel | Susie [lower-alpha 1] |
2 | Lyndsey W. | Serene | Sarah | Sarah | Teddi [lower-alpha 3] | Rachel | Rachel | Serene | Gabby | Gabby | Gabby [lower-alpha 4] Rachel |
3 | Genevieve | Susie | Eliza | Gabby | Serene | Genevieve | Sarah | Rachel | Rachel | Susie | |
4 | Ency | Eliza | Rachel | Marlena | Sarah | Sarah | Susie | Gabby | Serene | ||
5 | Susie | Rachel | Serene | Teddi | Marlena | Serene | Serene | Teddi | |||
6 | Claire | Ency | Sierra | Rachel | Genevieve | Susie | Gabby | Sarah | |||
7 | Serene | Sarah | Teddi | Mara | Mara | Teddi | Genevieve | Genevieve | |||
8 | Teddi | Kate | Lyndsey W. | Sierra | Gabby | Eliza | Eliza Mara | ||||
9 | Tessa | Cassidy | Jill | Susie | Susie | Mara | |||||
10 | Lindsay D. | Elizabeth | Gabby | Jill | Eliza | Hunter Marlena | |||||
11 | Daria | Kira | Kira | Serene | Hunter | ||||||
12 | Kate | Shanae | Mara | Genevieve | Shanae | Shanae | |||||
13 | Sierra | Sierra | Marlena | Hunter | Jill Lyndsey W. Sierra | ||||||
14 | Melina | Mara | Genevieve | Lyndsey W. | |||||||
15 | Hailey | Marlena | Hunter | Shanae | |||||||
16 | Jill | Genevieve | Melina | Elizabeth Kira Melina | |||||||
17 | Marlena | Melina | Elizabeth | ||||||||
18 | Jane | Gabby | Shanae | ||||||||
19 | Rachel | Jill | Ency Kate Tessa | ||||||||
20 | Ivana | Lyndsey W. | |||||||||
21 | Kira | Hunter | |||||||||
22 | Mara | Tessa | Cassidy | ||||||||
23 | Rianna | Daria Hailey Ivana Jane Lindsay D. Rianna | |||||||||
24 | Eliza | ||||||||||
25 | Gabby | ||||||||||
26 | Elizabeth | ||||||||||
27 | Hunter | ||||||||||
28 | Samantha | ||||||||||
29 | Cassidy | Samantha | |||||||||
30 | Shanae | Claire |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating (18–49) |
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264 | 1 | "Week 1: Season Premiere" | January 3, 2022 | 2601 | 3.54 [59] | 0.8/4 [59] |
265 | 2 | "Week 2" | January 10, 2022 | 2602 | 3.19 [60] | 0.7/3 [60] |
266 | 3 | "Week 3" | January 24, 2022 | 2603 | 3.61 [61] | 0.8/4 [61] |
267 | 4 | "Week 4: Houston, Texas" | January 31, 2022 | 2604 | 3.54 [62] | 0.8/4 [62] |
268 | 5 | "Week 5: Toronto" | February 7, 2022 [lower-alpha 5] | 2605 | 3.14 [63] | 0.7/3 [63] |
269 | 6 | "Week 6: Croatia" | February 14, 2022 [lower-alpha 5] | 2606 | 3.25 [64] | 0.7/3 [64] |
270 | 7 | "Week 7: Vienna, Austria" | February 21, 2022 | 2607 | 3.49 [65] | 0.7/3 [65] |
271 | 8 | "Week 8: Hometowns" | February 28, 2022 | 2608 | 3.71 [66] | 0.8 [66] |
272 | 9 | "The Women Tell All" | March 7, 2022 | N/A | 3.63 [67] | 0.9/7 [67] |
273 | 10 | "Week 9: Fantasy Suites" | March 8, 2022 | 2609 | 3.50 [68] | 0.8/5 [68] |
274 | 11 | "Week 10: Season Finale" | March 14, 2022 | 2610A | 4.57 [69] | 1.1/8 [69] |
275 | 12 | "After the Final Rose" | March 15, 2022 | 2610B | 4.73 [70] | 1.1/8 [70] |
Shanae Ankney came under fire for alleged ableist comments to Elizabeth Corrigan, who has ADHD. When Corrigan claimed she could not process things as well due to her condition, Ankney mocked her and even accused her of staging her condition. Corrigan responded by posting a TikTok video about mental health after the airing of the episode. [71] During the airing of the season, Echard released a public apology to Corrigan, stating that he would have sent Ankney home immediately had he known about her comments. [72] However, contestants Lyndsey Windham and Sierra Jackson disputed Echard's claims stating that he knew Ankney mocked Corrigan and kept Ankney anyway. [73]
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