Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey canceled their first rose ceremony after failing to talk to all 32 contestants on Monday’s season premiere of The Bachelorette on ABC.
With time running out before the first rose ceremony, Gabby 31, an ICU nurse from O’Fallon, Illinois, and Rachel, 26, a flight instructor from Clermont, Florida, compared notes and realized they didn’t come close to meeting all the contestants.
When season 19 host Jesse Palmer, 43, came to get them for the ceremony
Twenty years. Twenty-six seasons. Two long-running spinoffs. Millions have been mesmerized by “The Bachelor.” At first glance, the reality television series is an experiment in love and matchmaking in the modern era.
Year after year, viewers watch a highly manufactured depiction of romance that prioritizes a thin, white, cis-heteronormative and able-bodied lens of love. The competition is a psychologically strenuous exploration of polyamory as a means to monogamy, which simultaneously appeals and directly opposes the sensibilities of its white evangelical
