Monday night's episode of The Bachelorette was yet another lesson in how this "family" handles death: by bucking with tradition by cutting a Rose Ceremony and replacing it with an awkward Q&A with Andi, the Bachelorette who rejected a suitor who died.
In an unprecedented move, The Bachelorette host Chris Harrison revealed that producers told contestants of Andi Dorfman's upcoming season that their friend Eric Hill (who had already been eliminated) had died while the show was still taping. Usually during filming, contestants are completely cut off from what's…
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As we learned during Monday's finale of The Bachelor, Juan Pablo might like Nikki "a lot," he just didn't want to give Chris Harrison and American the satisfaction of knowing that he loved her. But as his social media presence and a sickeningly sweet YouTube video posted Wednesday prove, he really, really does.
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Congratulations to Scarlett Johansson and her fiancé Romain Dauriac! The couple is reportedly expecting their first child, which is currently incubating in Johansson's famous lady-basket. Huzzah for them! Huzzah for us all!
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To say that Chris Harrison has emerged as The Bachelor's breakout star implies that there was a time in which he wasn't. Which is sort of false: as the host of the show, he's more visible than any star or contestant has ever been. That being said, he's gotten more and more attention during the ten-plus years he's…
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On Monday night's episode of The Bachelor, a lovely young woman named Clare had a sultry 4 am rendezvous in the ocean with Bachelor extraordinaire Juan Pablo. Unfortunately for Clare, the waves of joy she experienced were as the short-lived as the positive sentiment surrounding her chosen mate has been.
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In our continual pledge to make sure Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor and all its spin-offs, becomes the most relevant person on planet Earth, we encourage you to please sign up for his new dating service At First Sight, which is totally different than all those other dating apps because it uses video.
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Today on Katie Couric's aptly named daytime talk show Katie, Couric interviewed three women of The Bachelor she deemed "the bad girls" of the show, Erica Rose (season 9 with the prince), Vienna Girardi (season 14, Jake Pavelka) and Courtney Robertson (season 16, Ben), to see how good it feels to be baddd. Spoiler:…
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Ryan Seacrest reportedly brokered a date between Justin Bieber's mom (whose name is almost literally Patty Melt) and Bachelor host Chris Harrison. (Anyone else enjoy thinking about the phrase "Bachelor host" like a Bachelor is some sort of parasite and Chris Harrison is its host? And the Bachelor lays eggs in Chris…
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Okay, first of all, I actually really really like Lauren Conrad. I think she seems like a genuinely nice (if harmlessly shallow and sometimes clueless) human being. But second of all, this fucking video—in which LC, published author, informs acolytes that "a great way to display books" is to completely destroy all…
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Downton Abbey is a place rooted in tradition and we have come to depend on its stick-in-the-mud ways, but today we have word of something that threatens to shake our favorite British estate to its very core: We might have to face a season four with no Dame Maggie Smith and no Dan Stevens. A show without the Dowager…
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Another season of The Bachelorette has come and gone. Exhale. But last night's heartbreaking/heartwarming extravaganza nailed all the necessary points in the franchise's finale routine.
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The Bachelorette is slowly eating my brain. I blame Frank. And Chris. And Roberto and all the other rejected, Disney prince-esque castoffs. Because they have seduced me with their unrealistic, romcom ways.
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The original god-awful reality show, The Bachelor, launched its umpteenth season last night, introducing us to our latest bachelor, Brad. (Yes, Brad.) The Bachelor, as many know, is a show that has never failed to prove itself to be utterly terrifying and disturbing and judging from last night's premiere, this season…
