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Bachelor Nation

: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

*A New York Times Bestseller* The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure. For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor f

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Characters

Amy Kaufman (4)Spencer Pratt (3)Paul Scheer (1)Joshua Malina (1)Donnie Wahlberg (1)Jason Ritter (1)Allison Williams (1)Mike Fleiss (1)Scott Jeffress (1)Rozlyn Papa (1)

“Yes, I get money from ads, but I’m also working every day on jobs that don’t pay anything.”

— Ashley Iaconetti, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, Instagram, Ads, Money

“250,000 followers = $ 1,000/ ad. 500,000 = $ 2,000/ ad. And if you have 1 million followers? You’re probably getting at least $ 10,000 per ad.”

— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, Instagram, Ads, Money

“This is reinforcing gender roles. . . . But, aw, what if someone said that to me?”

— Jason Ritter, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, gender roles, feminism, Dating

“I will literally walk on-set after lunch and say, “OK, it’s Monday. Bachelor in Paradise tonight. Let’s get the hell out of here so everyone can watch it.”

— Donnie Wahlberg, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, TV, Bachelor in Paradise

“As an actor, I’m supposed to say reality TV is anathema to me because every reality show is replacing a show that I could be on.”

— Joshua Malina, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, TV

“I can watch a Sunday-to-Monday night of The Bachelor and it’s like cotton candy. You eat it. It’s delicious. It disappears. Where did that go? I can’t believe I watched four hours of it.”

— Paul Scheer, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, TV, Junk Food, Entertainment

““You go on that show and you are meat for the grinder.”

— Rozlyn Papa, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV

“The show has made me feel really ugly, because I assume that the women they cast are based on their perception of what a man would want— and all the women look the same to me on the show. They always have the same kind of long barrel curls and they’re all skinny. There’s no one that looks like me.”

— Diablo Cody, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, Women, Bodies

“One thing that will never happen on my set is, like, a rape or something. I would never allow some guy to walk into the room of some girl who’s passed out. Everyone has to be cognizant of what they’re doing— even when two people get really drunk and want to have sex, if they’re too gone, it’s like,…”

— Scott Jeffress, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, Consent, Bachelor in Paradise

“We basically only watch reality TV.”

— Spencer Pratt, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, Speidi

“I used to live-tweet during The Bachelor, and I loved it, until it became an unsafe environment.”

— Spencer Pratt, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, Speidi

“I know what’s up— they’re on the show to get IG followers and #SponCon ads. But the reality is, I went on a TV show just for fame and now I’m married with a kid, so the game is crazy.”

— Spencer Pratt, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, Speidi

“You can’t only absorb the ideals of a feminist world view through shows that espouse them— often, there are more lessons to learn about womanhood on shows where the women (or, more typically, the men) are behaving in ways that proliferate misogyny in one way or another.”

— Allison Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, feminism, Critical thinking

““If I have any skill at all, it’s the ability to come up with ideas that get people talking.”

— Mike Fleiss, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV

“In the early years of The Bachelor, Fleiss was constantly stoned.”

— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV, Mike Fleiss

“To motivate the producing team, Jeffress offered cash incentives. He kept a wad of crisp $ 100 bills in his pocket and promised one to anyone who delivered strong drama. The first producer to get tears? A hundred bucks! You get Michel to make out with the right girl? A hundred bucks! Catch a chick p…”

— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Reality TV

“I know it’s a TV show and whatever, but would it hurt ratings that bad to have a woman whose thighs touch? Would they lose an advertiser?”

— Amy Schumer, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Women, beauty, Bodies, thighs

“From an early age, I understood that the most meaningful validation a straight woman could get was from a man.”

— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Body Image, Women, beauty, Patriarchy