The Bachelor

about The Bachelor
The series revolves around a bachelor courted by 25 women. The show follows the bachelor as he goes on a series of dates with the women, some of them group dates, some one-on-one dates. On each episode women are eliminated, generally during the rose ceremony at the end of the episode, but sometimes on the dates (during what are called "elimination dates"). The process culminates towards the end of the season with a few of the women going on overnight dates and meetings between the bachelor, the women, and their respective families. At the end of the show, the bachelor is to pick one woman with whom he would like to continue a relationship. Sometimes he proposes marriage and sometimes other levels of commitment.

The runner-up from the first season, Trista Rehn, later starred in The Bachelorette, a spin-off program in which the format was gender-reversed. In light of the fact many of the couples formed during previous seasons later ended their relationships, the premise of finding true love has proven difficult to sustain.

The show has been heavily criticized for not having a bachelor who is a minority in its twelve seasons and thirteen potential bachelors, and for having an extremely limited amount of minority women, especially African-Americans, in its pool of potential bachlorettes. Only one African-American woman has made it past the third rose ceremony (Marshana in season 12 made it to week 5) and only one Latina, Mary Delgado, has ever been to the final rose ceremony (which she won).


history and previews sessions:

Season	Bachelor	Occupation	Winner	Proposal	Status of Relationship

1	Alex Michel	management consultant	Amanda Marsh	No	They broke up after several months.

2	Aaron   Buerge	Vice President of a chain of family-owned banks	Helene Eksterowicz	Yes	They broke up after several months.

3	Andrew	sales manager of Firestone Family estates	Jen Schefft	Yes	They broke up in December 2003. Andrew is now married to American model and actress Ivana Bozilovic.

4	Bob Guiney	created a mortgage company	Estella Gardinier	No	They broke up after the show aired. He is now married to soap opera star Rebecca Budig.

5	Jesse Palmer	football player	Jessica Bowlin	No	They broke up after several months.

6	Byron Velvick	professional bass fisherman	Mary Delgado	Yes	They are currently engaged with a wedding reportedly planned for 2008.

7	Charlie O'Connell	actor	Sarah Brice	No	They broke up in September 2007, but then got back together and are planning to wed.

8	Travis Lane Stork	ER doctor	Sarah Stone	No	They broke up after the show aired.

9	Prince Lorenzo Borghese	cosmetics entrepreneur	Jennifer Wilson	No	They broke up in January 2007

10	Andy Baldwin	doctor, triathlete, and Naval officer	Tessa Horst	Yes	They called off the engagement one month after the finale, but continued their romantic relationship. The broke up in September 2007.

11	Brad Womack	bar owner	none	No	He rejected all the women at the final rose ceremony.

12	Matt Grant	global financier	Shayne Lamas	Yes	They broke up in July 2008.

13	Jason Mesnick	account executive	TBA	TBA