The Bachelorette

The Bachelorette

Genre	Dating game show
Presented by	Chris Harrison
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	12
No. of episodes	130
Production
Executive producer(s)	Elan Gale
Running time	120 minutes
Production company(s)	Next Entertainment Warner Horizon Television Telepictures Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	January 8, 2003 – February 28, 2005 Revived series: May 19, 2008 – present
Chronology
Related shows	The Bachelor Bachelor Pad Bachelor in Paradise
External links
Website

Plot

Main article: Rules of The Bachelor

All of the rules are adopted from its parent show, The Bachelor. The series revolves around a single bachelorette (deemed eligible), who is usually a reject from the previous Bachelor season, and a pool of romantic interests (typically 25; 30 in season 5), which could include a potential husband for the bachelorette. The format is the same as the parent show. Unlike The Bachelor, one of two male suitors proposes to the bachelorette for the final selection. The Bachelor does not, however, always propose at the end of the show. At the end of Juan Pablo's season, he decided to "choose" a girl to keep spending time with, but evidently was not ready for a proposal. A proposal at the end of the show is not always guaranteed. It is up to the bachelor/bachelorette to decide that.

Season 11 was the first season to feature a twist in casting. Since producers could not decide between The Bachelor Season 19 contenders Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson. The 25 men participating had to decide which bachelorette would make the best wife. In the end, more men voted for Kaitlyn and Britt was sent home on the first night.^[2]

Unlike The Bachelor, all eleven seasons of The Bachelorette have ended with a proposal whether or not the Bachelorette decided to accept or decline. Trista Rehn's marriage to Ryan Sutter, Ashley Hebert's marriage to JP Rosenbaum, and Desiree Hartsock's marriage to Chris Siegfried have been the only marriages to result. The weddings of the former two were broadcast on ABC.

Questions of authenticity

The Bachelorette Season 4 winner, Jesse Csincsak, commented that contestants must follow producers' orders and that a storyline was fabricated in the editing room.^[3]

On March 15, 2010, The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss appeared on 20/20 to confess that he developed the show's contestants into characters that catered to his audience's tastes, and that they "need [their] fair share of villains every season."^[4] Fleiss has come under fire for admitting that The Bachelor has less to do with reality than it does making good television.^[5]

By Season 7 of The Bachelorette, some believe that actors were being hired by ABC to play specific roles on the show. Some viewers were becoming tired of the show's scripted nature and speaking out.^[6] By Season 8 there were numerous complaints when the entire cast of The Bachelorette overtly acted out the show's written script with the cast of The Muppets.^[7]

Setting

Much like the parent show, the first two seasons were filmed in a luxurious house in Los Angeles County, California, and "Villa De La Vina," in Agoura Hills, California for later seasons. Since the fifth season, the third and remaining episodes filmed around the world. Episodes have been filmed throughout the United States, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Turkey, Portugal, Thailand, China, Bermuda, England, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Ireland. The California estate was not used during some seasons including season 3 that was filmed in New York City;^[8] Charlotte, North Carolina for season 8, where Emily Maynard lived so that she could stay with her daughter Ricki during production.^[9][10] In addition to Villa De La Vina mansion, the contestants in season 4 lived in a bunkhouse close to the mansion.

Seasons

International versions

Season	Original run	Bachelorette	Occupation	Winner	Runner-up	Proposal	Relationship status
1	January 8–February 19, 2003	Trista Rehn	Physical therapist	Ryan Sutter	Charlie Maher	Yes	Rehn and Sutter were married on December 6, 2003 on national television.[11] As of 2016, they are still together and have two children, Max and Blakesley.[12][13]
2	January 14–February 26, 2004	Meredith Phillips	Makeup artist	Ian Mckee	Matthew Hickl	Yes	Phillips and McKee were engaged at the end of the show, but ended their relationship in February 2005.[14][15]
3	January 10–March 21, 2005	Jennifer "Jen" Schefft	Publicist	Jerry Ferris	John Paul Merritt	Yes	Schefft originally rejected both Ferris and Merritt in the finale. During the first live final rose ceremony, Schefft chose Ferris, an art gallery director, over Meritt. Ferris proposed to Schefft, but she rejected his proposal, stating that the chemistry was not there.[16][17] Schefft ultimately married Chicago public relations executive Joe Waterman in May 2009;[18] they have two children, Mae Elizabeth[19] and Charlotte Grace.[20]
4	May 19–July 7, 2008	DeAnna Pappas	Real estate agent	Jesse Csincsak	Jason Mesnick	Yes	Pappas chose Csincsak and their wedding was set for May 9, 2009, but they broke up in November 2008.[21] Pappas eventually made a surprise return in season 13 of The Bachelor. Csincsak is now married to The Bachelor season 13 contestant Ann Lueders.[22] Pappas ultimately married high school teacher Stephen Stagliano in October 2011, whose brother, Michael, would become a contestant on the fifth season of The Bachelorette.[23] The couple have two children, Addison Marie,[24][25] and Austin Michael.[26]
5	May 18–July 28, 2009	Jillian Harris	Interior designer	Ed Swiderski	Kiptyn Locke	Yes	Harris, the first Canadian bachelorette chose Ed Swiderski in the finale, but in July 2010, it was announced that Harris and Swiderski had broken up.[27] Swiderski is now married to news reporter Natalie Bomke.[28] Harris is expecting her first child with boyfriend Justin Pasutto.[29]
6	May 24–August 2, 2010	Ali Fedotowsky	Advertising account manager	Roberto Martinez	Chris Lambton	Yes	Fedotowsky and Martinez got engaged in the season finale, but the couple broke up in November 2011.[30] However, they remained friends.[31] Fedotowsky is now engaged to Kevin Manno and expecting their first child, a girl, together.[32]
7	May 23–August 1, 2011	Ashley Hebert	Dental student	J.P. Rosenbaum	Ben Flajnik	Yes	Hebert and Rosenbaum married on December 1, 2012, and their wedding aired as a TV special on December 16 of that year.[33][34][35] The couple have a son named Fordham Rhys born on September 30, 2014.[36] On May 23, 2016, they announced that they're expecting their second child, a girl.[37]
8	May 14–July 23, 2012	Emily Maynard[38]	Children's hospital event planner	Jef Holm	Arie Luyendyk Jr.	Yes	Maynard and Holm ended their relationship in October 2012.[39] In June 2014, Maynard married Tyler Johnson, whom she met at church.[40][41] The couple have a son, Jennings Tyler, born in July 2015,[42][43] and are expecting their third child.[44]
9	May 27–August 5, 2013[45]	Desiree Hartsock[46]	Bridal stylist	Chris Siegfried	Drew Kenney	Yes	Hartsock and Siegfried were married on January 18, 2015 and currently live in Seattle, Washington.[47] On April 27, 2016, they announced that they are expecting their first child.[48]
10	May 19–July 28, 2014[49]	Andi Dorfman[50]	Assistant District Attorney	Josh Murray	Nick Viall	Yes	Murray proposed to Dorfman in the season finale. However, the two announced their breakup on January 8, 2015.[51]
11	May 18–July 27, 2015[52]	Kaitlyn Bristowe[53]	Dance Instructor	Shawn Booth		Yes	Bristowe and her fellow The Bachelor season 19 contestant Britt Nilsson were selected as candidates. In the second episode, the men chose Bristowe to be the Bachelorette. Bristowe picked Shawn Booth, and the two are still engaged as of June 2016.
12	May 23, 2016[54]	Joelle "JoJo" Fletcher[55]	Real Estate Developer	TBA	TBA	TBA	To be announced
Country	Name	Host	Network	Date premiered
Sweden	Bachelorette Sverige		TV3	March 27, 2011[56]
Slovenia	Sanjska ženska		POP TV	1st season: 2005 2nd season: 2006
Romania [57]	Burlăcița	Cătălin Botezatu (Season 1) Bogdan Vlădău (Season 2) Radu Vălcan (Season 3)	Antena 1	July 7, 2011
India	The Bachelorette India		Life OK
Germany	Die Bachelorette		RTL	November 24, 2004
Switzerland [58]	Die Bachelorette		3+	April 27, 2015
Australia [59]	The Bachelorette Australia	Osher Günsberg[60]	Network Ten	September 23, 2015[60]
Canada [61]	The Bachelorette Canada		W Network	TBA
New Zealand [62]	The Bachelorette New Zealand		TV3	TBA
Denmark [63]	Drømmekvinden		TV Danmark	September 12, 2004

Joey Bada$$, Vince Staples, Mac Miller and YG shows cancelled at Irving Plaza following fatal shooting

Joey Bada$$ performs in 2015. Tim P Whitby/Getty

Live Nation has postponed six upcoming shows featured in their Governors Ball After Dark series at both Irving Plaza and Gramercy Theatre following a shooting that left one dead and three others wounded. 

At Irving Plaza, Joey Bada$$ was scheduled to perform on Thursday, Mac Miller on Friday and Vince Staples on Saturday. At Gramercy Theatre, Appetite for Destruction was scheduled for Friday, Black Pistol Fire on Saturday and YG scheduled for next Monday.

A spokesperson repping both venues made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon citing cooperation with the New York Police Department amid an ongoing discussion regarding a possible curfew in the city.

"In light of last week's tragic event, we are acting with an overabundance of caution and coordinating a going forward strategy with the New York Police Department that may also include a curfew," the spokesperson told Rolling Stone. "Because these discussions with New York Police Department are ongoing, we will be postponing a few of our upcoming shows

However, NYPD officials have denied having any involvement in the cancelations. "The organization’s decision to cancel the event was in no way influenced by the NYPD," a department spokesman told Billboard in a statement.

Last week, rapper Troy Ave was charged with attempted murder and criminal weapons possession following a shooting at Irving Plaza that left his bodyguard dead and two others wounded. Troy Ave, 33, whose real name is Roland Collins, plead not guilty to the charges on Monday.

The morning after shooting, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said that all rap artists are "thugs" who promote violence.

“The crazy world of the so-called rap artists, who are basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence they did all their lives,”Commissioner Bratton told WCBS. “Unfortunately, that violence oftentimes manifests itself during their performances.”

What makes The Neon Demon so outrageous?

The most shocking thing about Nicolas Winding Refn’s new film is not its scenes of horror but how underwhelming it is, writes Nicholas Barber.

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In 2011, Nicolas Winding Refn won a best director award at Cannes for his glacially stylish yet ultra-violent thriller, Drive, the film that turned Ryan Gosling into the world’s coolest man, and sparked a brief craze for quilted satin jackets with scorpions on the back. Two years later, the Danish director returned to Cannes with Only God Forgives, but this time the Gosling-gore combo was greeted by boos and vitriolic reviews.

It would be a relief to report that Refn’s new film, The Neon Demon, is set to bring him roaring back into favour, but his fashion-industry horror reverie is actually so empty and self-parodic that he might not be invited to Cannes again. Its futuristic nightclub aesthetic is mesmeric for the first 15 minutes, and in the last 15 minutes its leaps to giddy heights of nastiness and transgression. But in the intervening hour and a half, it is somewhere between a pop video and an art installation, but it’s barely a film at all.

It’s somewhere between a pop video and an art installation

The Neon Demon - a cool but irrelevant title - opens with a shot of a blonde girl (Elle Fanning), reclining artfully on a chaise longue, sequins on her face and blood all over her blue metallic dress. We aren’t witnessing an unusually chic murder scene, though, but a photo shoot. The blonde is Jesse, an aspiring 16 year-old model who has just got off the bus from Georgia to Los Angeles. The photographs don’t show much of her, beneath all the blood and sequins, but they somehow impress the head of a modelling agency (Christina Hendricks), and Jesse is given a contract.

It’s fun to see Hendricks in imperious Mad Men mode, sashaying into her office’s reception area, pointing at one of the hopeful girls waiting there, and pronouncing, “You can go.” But you have to enjoy her cameo while you can, because she doesn’t appear again. One reason why The Neon Demon is so uninvolving is that the characters keep vanishing before they can be developed, leaving the viewer with Jesse as she drifts, cheerily but blankly, through a film which has more do with fairy-tale archetypes than recognisable human behaviour.

Frock horror

Fanning (who played Sleeping Beauty in Disney’s Maleficent) is the virginal princess. Karl Glusman, the photographer in that opening scene, is her handsome prince. Keanu Reeves, the sleazebag manager of the cheap motel where Jesse is staying, is one of several big bad wolves. Jena Malone is the scene-stealing wicked stepmother, a make-up artist whose kindness towards Jesse has ominous undertones. Finally, Bella Heathcote and Abbey Lee are the ugly-on-the-inside sisters: two cold, bionic models who could be Allen Jones sculptures brought (barely) to life. Both are jealous of the innocent newcomer in town, whose fresh-faced prettiness outshines their surgically-enhanced fembot perfection. Crucially, she is younger than they are, and that gives her a stratospheric advantage in an industry which values youth above all else. By the time you’re 21, someone says, you might as well retire.

Refn presumably hasn’t heard that the highest earning model in 2015 was Gisele Bündchen, who is 35, but then, he doesn’t seem to have heard much about modelling in general. The film’s supposed insights amount to precious perfume-ad slogans (“Beauty is the highest commodity there is”) and mouldy caricatures. Is anyone going to be shocked to learn that models can be bitchy, or that a designer (Alessandro Nivola) can be pretentious, or that a photographer (Desmond Harrington) can be insensitive, or that a make-up artist can be a necrophiliac lesbian with a taste for blood? Well, all right, perhaps they’ll be shocked by that last bit, but that’s why it’s so frustrating that Refn saves the slasher-movie thrills and Cronenbergian body-horror until the film is almost over.

It’s amazing to think that he co-wrote the script with two playwrights, Polly Stenham and Mary Laws, because there is so little to the plot and dialogue prior to that climactic spurt of action that the screenplay can’t have been longer than 50 pages. Filling the time with moody pauses and slow-motion sequence, the director is far less interested in gripping us with his story than in dazzling us with the pop-art flash of his silhouettes and strobe lights. With the help of Cliff Martinez’s glittering electronic score, The Neon Demon sometimes becomes a surreal science-fiction epic about Stepford androids, but even the imagery isn’t quite as awe-inspiring as Refn clearly thinks it is. Glance at a few glossily pervy album covers (Pulp, Robert Palmer, Roxy Music), and flick through a couple of coffee-table books about Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, and you’ll have seen a lot of what he has to show you.

Luckily, the gruesome final stretch is so fabulously outrageous that it just about vindicates the rest of The Neon Demon. But the idea that a new film from a provocateur of Refn’s talents should be so underwhelming... that’s the most outrageous thing about it.

★★★★☆

A two-hour, virtual reality-enhanced walk through London that challenges you to reconsider space and time

There’s a new breed of excitement, often hidden behind a dense smothering of faux-cynicism, pulsing through the veins of the world’s creative industries right now. As virtual reality becomes less virtual and more reality it’s becoming increasingly apparent that artists, photographers, filmmakers, designers and architects are about to pounce. With endless possible applications and limitless creative potential, those who thrive on the extraction of oneself from the “real” world are ready to harness new technology and take their audience to places previously only accessible within the artist’s mind.

In reality, technological milestones are synonymous with painful teething issues and user platform inconsistency. Spurred by this infuriating actuality, I was curious to see what renowned portrait photographer Robin Mellor had in store with his immersive outdoor photography exhibition Another Space & Time, the first instalment of his new personal project 'Space Explorer'. 

Comprising a GPS-reliant app, and funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, Another Space & Time has the potential to be a predictably clunky techno-let down. But would a globally renowned photographer, whose work has been used by Adidas, MTV, Channel 4, Virgin, Wonderland, Esquire and Eurostar, really put his reputation on the line for the sake of space-age self-expression? Well, yes, but a candid chat with the photographer ahead of my app-mapped two hour stroll around Hackney uncovered an unexpected honesty that shaped the project. Not too proud to admit that he wandered into the Great American Desert without a real idea of how he would share the subsequent photographs with an audience, Mellor revealed that, despite being entirely intoxicated by the concept of virtual reality, he recognises the need for stepping stone projects, like his, to take us to a place where virtual reality is a viable communicative tool, and not a gimmick. 

Having talked to Mellor for a good thirty minutes about the fresh challenges faced when exhibiting his photographs outdoors as billboard-sized vinyl prints applied to the sides of Hackney Council owned buildings, I grabbed my phone (with the Space Explorer app already downloaded), my headphones and headed for the beginning of the trail. 

Lasting around two hours and taking you on a tour of Hackney perfectly suited to enticingly mild summer evenings, Another Space & Time uses the newly developed Space Explorer app to guide its audience through a 15 photograph series of the Great American Desert that, when it recognises that you are within range of an image, cues the app to play a soundscape that is bespoke to that photograph. Recorded in the same moments as the images were taken, the soundscapes capture the atmospheric soundtrack of life in the desert while using the voices of its inhabitants to narrate its relevance and profound impact on their existences.

Walking the route, crossing roads and taking ten paces back at every image to appreciate its scale, I felt a plethora of contrasting elements challenging my interpretations of isolation and solitude. Aside from an almost shameful realisation of my personal privilege when hearing about the often troubled lives of Mellor’s subjects, I was experiencing a sense of enlightened detachment from my own vanity upon inserting my headphones to listen to the next soundscape.

Having discussed the differences between audiences in galleries and those exposed to public art installations with Mellor, it dawned on me that without the security of knowing that everyone around you is there to simultaneously cast the same voyeuristic judgement on something, a wave of self-consciousness floods over you as you pause in the middle of the street to stare at a seemingly random mural while listening to a soundtrack that only you can hear. However, by the time you reach Broadway Market, nearly half way through the trail, the instant gratification of blocking out streams of passers-by with the voices of people living thousands of miles away becomes rather addictive and triggers a liberating appreciation for public solitude. 

Taking participants on a quietly fascinating stroll along the creatively adorned bank of Regent’s Canal, Another Space & Timeends in the unexpectedly gated grounds of a large residential and commercial development in Haggerston. Most notably, unlike exhibitions at galleries and museums, there is no exiting via the gift shop, nobody frantically gathering used and abused audio guides and no upcoming exhibition advertisements. This break in tradition provides an abnormally serene moment of contemplation before you reach your next destination, leading me to believe that perhaps the most poignant moments of our experiences of art are lost in controlled settings. Perhaps technology will prove itself as an unexpected ally in reclaiming the indulgence of isolation.