It works both ways: Family members get drafted into the franchise, and former contestants make their own sibling introductions.
Sort of like that time you thought you’d found the perfect match for your brother while you were all at summer camp together? The current Bachelorette, Jo Jo Fletcher, isn’t the first in her family to look for love on a reality show — though outside of the Bachelor franchise.
Her brother Ben Patton was on Eva Longoria’s short-lived dating show, “Ready for Love,” in 2013 and perhaps that’s part of the reason he (accurately) questioned Higgins’s affection for his sister.
Fans remember De Anna Pappas as the fourth Bachelorette in ABC’s hit franchise, but these days she’s busy at home with her family, husband Steven Stagliano and their beautiful daughter Addison, and, of course, watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
Since becoming a mother last year, Pappas admits that sometimes she’ll miss an episode here or there, but she’s very excited to watch season 10 of The Bachelorette, which starts on Monday. When I was the Bachelorette we went to, like, the Bahamas.
De Anna’s heartbreak was evident on the follow-up, “After the Final Rose” show.
Recognizing her popularity, ABC Television tapped De Anna to star in The Bachelorette, this time, she would be in control of her dating destiny.
), never fear: You just might win the chance to keep playing.
In recent cast recycling, for example, Kaitlyn Bristowe didn’t win Chris Soules’s affection on “The Bachelor,” but she seems to have found love with fiance Shawn Booth. And so the franchise’s revolving door keeps turning.
The Bachelorette is a spin-off of the American competitive reality dating game show, The Bachelor.
In its January 2003 debut on ABC, the first season featured Trista Rehn, the runner-up date from the first season of The Bachelor, offering the opportunity for Rehn to choose a husband among 25 bachelors.