SPOILER ALERT! This publish incorporates particulars from the Season 29 premiere of ABC‘s The Bachelor.
Grant Ellis is able to discover his fortunately ever after.
The Season 29 premiere of The Bachelor kicked off Monday evening with its typical introduction to the brand new main man, a 30-year-old day dealer from Houston, Texas. Bachelor Nation first met Grant when he was vying for Jenn Tran’s coronary heart on Season 21 of The Bachelorette and, whereas that love story didn’t work out, Grant is able to give it one other go.
This time, he’s the one who might be relationship a couple of dozen girls without delay within the hopes of getting down on one knee by the top of the journey.
Audiences could keep in mind that final season, Grant confided in Jenn about his father’s sobriety. Within the Season 29 premiere, we get to fulfill Grant’s dad and see them share a second earlier than Grant departs for Los Angeles for evening one. He’s excited that he and his dad are each embarking on new chapters of their life on the identical time, and he appears longing for the long run. His total household, in truth, appears very supportive of this endeavor.
When evening one lastly rolls round, Grant welcomes 25 girls to the Bachelor Mansion. Some standout arrivals embrace Carolina, who threw Grant for a loop when she did her total introduction in Spanish, and Alli Jo, who introduced Grant a “pizza” her coronary heart. There was additionally Radhika, who taught Grant a Bollywood dance, and Alexe, who trekked up the driveway on foot together with her llama Linda in tow (which Grant mistook for a donkey).
Sarafiena arrives with an enormous cardboard cutout of Grant’s head, whereas Kyleigh introduced Grant some chips and salsa for a little bit of a snack break. Savannah, a marriage planner, aptly introduced a marriage cake, and Vicky rolled up the driveway with a neon signal that learn, “Viva Las Vicky.”
After pulling out all of the stops to impress Grant throughout arrivals, the ladies jockeyed to spend a while with him contained in the mansion in hopes of getting that coveted first impression rose.
All the women are ready with bated breath to see who, if anybody, will kiss Grant on evening one. As this stuff normally go, Allyshia, the girl who insisted she doesn’t kiss on first dates, is the one to kiss Grant first — a lot to the chagrin of the others.
However, she isn’t the one one. Juliana additionally kisses Grant after a heartfelt dialog about their households and previous relationships.
Thus far, the evening has been fairly drama free, and all the ladies appear to be getting alongside very nicely, even amid some apparent twinges of jealousy over who has seemingly progressed farther than others with Grant. However, in fact, The Bachelor can’t merely be drama free.
Simply as all the ladies are remarking concerning the calmness of the evening so far, they get a little bit of a shock within the type of one final lady, who arrives in a limo in the midst of the cocktail occasion. She walks straight by the mansion, ignoring everybody in her path, heading straight for Grant. Who is that this particular person, and why is she right here?
The producers hold her face hidden for fairly a very long time, at the same time as she asks Grant if he’s kissed anybody but. All the different girls are in a little bit of a tizzy. However, it’s all for naught, as a result of it’s simply Grant’s sister, Taylor!
She gathers everybody inside and takes the reins, doing her sisterly obligation by embarrassing Grant and exhibiting his child images to the group. After a couple of laughs, Taylor publicizes she’ll be sticking across the cocktail occasion to get to know the ladies and provides them some intel on her brother. Their conversations embrace Grant’s previous relationships, his emotional intelligence, his upbringing and extra.
Taylor tells Grant he’s acquired a tough resolution forward of him to determine who ought to keep and who ought to go.
Earlier than lengthy, it’s time handy out the primary impression rose. Host Jesse Palmer publicizes that not solely will the primary impression rose save one lady from elimination on the rose ceremony, they’ll additionally get the primary one-on-one date with Grant.
After a couple of final minute conversations (and a few smooches), Grant gives the primary impression rose to Alexe. He tells her that, “except for being lovely,” he thinks she’s humorous and clever. Naturally, she accepts.
On the rose ceremony, Grant offers out roses to Litia, Rose, Zoe, Ella, Alli Jo, Natalie, Juliana, Vicky, Carolina, Beverly, Bailey, Dina, Chloie, Rebekah, Sarafiena, Allyshia, and Parisa.
Meaning 18 girls are heading into the primary week of dates, and 7 have already been eradicated.
That is only the start of the highway for Grant, and whereas the primary episode felt pretty drama-free, the previews for this season actually make it appear to be it received’t keep that means. Anyway, The Bachelor airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.