It’s the age old question when it comes to The Bachelor – do the leads have any say in the order that the roses are given out to their choices?
Most fans of the show will have personally witnessed a front-runner receive a rose down towards the tail end of the ceremony and will have questioned the strength of the relationship between the contestant and the lead.
However, former The Bachelor lead has confirmed that he wasn’t initially able to pick the order in which he handed out his roses.
“So as the Bachelor, for me anyway, I had a list of the ladies that I wanted to keep around and the ladies that I didn’t feel a spark with,” he told Yahoo Lifestyle!.
He added, “I’m not privy to a lot of the things that go on behind the scenes, so I didn’t really give the order a thought. Consequently, Holly was left last many, many times which I didn’t realise. That’s great for dramatic effect as well because you need to throw people off. If we knew who was going to win night one, it wouldn’t be an interesting show.
“So there’s a lot that you as the Bachelor don’t know about, but I think ignorance is bliss. Here are the people that I want to keep here, and that’s what matters.”
However, Jimmy added that he began to consider the order of the roses as the season went on, and made a point of ensuring that the women he was connecting with were picked toward the beginning of the rose ceremony.
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“This is not to speak about Holly in this instance, yes I did give her the last rose on a few occasions, but there were some instances where the order towards the end I was like, okay, who put in more of an effort tonight? Or who put in more effort on this date?” he said.
“Yes, I still think there’s something there, but she didn’t come and talk to me at a cocktail party, she seemed disinterested in one of the one on ones, or something like that. And then you go, well you know what, I’m gonna put you a little bit later in the order just to show you that you need to let me know you’re interested in me because at the moment I can’t see you’re interested in me and that’s how it’s playing out.”
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