‘The Bachelor’ ends its messy season with betrayals, apologies — and a final rose

A man in a suit smiling, holding a rose, on a pink chair
“The Bachelor” star Clayton Echard.
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The next accommodates main spoilers for Half II of “The Bachelor” Season 26 finale.

A number of weeks earlier than this week’s stunning season finale of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” one contestant delivered a cryptic message about how star Clayton Echard’s seek for real love would finish.

“I’m in a singular place the place I do know a whole lot of issues, and I feel I’ll go away it at that,” nurse Teddi Wright stated to Echard through the present’s “Girls Inform All” episode reuniting many of the former contestants. “I hope you’re ... OK.”

He could also be OK — Echard, who grew to become maybe essentially the most controversial lead within the franchise’s historical past, ended the season fortunately in a dedicated romance with Susie Evans, the finalist who left him after he admitted that he had been intimate with two of her rivals.

However legions of Bachelor Nation followers could really feel totally different about whether or not Echard deserves a cheerful ending. Followers may have robust emotions about the best way the present’s producers milked, manipulated — and presumably even misled — viewers through the twisty drama crammed with heartbreak and trauma.

Listed here are 5 takeaways from Tuesday’s episode.

1. Echard’s epiphany

In Monday’s Half I finale episode, Echard had persuaded the opposite two finalists — Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia — to remain in Iceland, insisting he was nonetheless in love with them. Though they had been upset, they agreed, and every met his household individually. However Echard realized afterward that he was nonetheless in love with Evans, and that he might not proceed together with her rivals.

He went to a resort room the place the 2 girls had been, and instructed them his coronary heart “is not right here, however with Susie.” Windey angrily walked out of the room, telling Echard she felt betrayed. Recchia tearfully instructed Echard: “That is going to hang-out you that you simply let me go.”

2. Two confrontations

Windey and Recchia confronted Echard through the reside broadcast in entrance of a studio viewers. Each encounters had been tense, with Echard wanting down somberly as they each blasted him. When he tried to apologize and stated he didn’t imply to harm her, Recchia stated, “I simply don’t consider you’re sorry. You disrespected me, as somebody you like and as a human.” Relations of each girls had been additionally within the viewers, obtrusive at Echard.

3. A final-minute plea

After breaking Windey’s and Recchia’s hearts, Echard made a last-minute plea to Evans, who was nonetheless in Iceland. Whereas she was extra welcoming towards him, she was hesitant. And once they met for what ought to have been the proposal ceremony, Evans stated she couldn't transfer ahead: “I don’t suppose you’re my particular person.” She departed, leaving Echard alone and shattered.

4. The ultimate rose

Host Jesse Palmer stated “Bachelor” historical past had been made: “For the primary time, our Bachelor was rejected on the ultimate day and was left alone — or is he?” Moments later, Evans got here out on stage and sat subsequent to Echard. They stated that they had been working for the final a number of months on having a relationship. Though there was no proposal, Evans referred to as Echard “my boyfriend,” and he introduced her with the ultimate rose.

5. The subsequent Bachelorettes

Windey and Recchia wound up with a big comfort prize. They are going to be co-leads through the subsequent season of “The Bachelorette.”

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