And Now It Starts...

Getting ready to shoot The Bachelorette(s)...
— Mike Fleiss (@fleissmeister) March 12, 2015

A tweet from Mike Fleiss, sent out this morning. He's referring to shooting with cameras, of course, so it looks like Bach'ette episode one will be filmed tonight, which means by tomorrow morning the new bachelorette will have been selected. How long before word gets out? Based on Chris Harrison's TVGuide interview, which was posted on Tuesday, not that long: 

How exactly will this work? 

Harrison: I think by Night 1, we're going to knock it down to one Bachelorette. That seems to be the consensus. We have discussed other versions and we haven't filmed it, so until we do, I can't guarantee it. But the overwhelming consensus seems to be that Night 1, we'll go forward with one Bachelorette. And who that'll be, I really don't know.

Do you worry who is chosen will be spoiled immediately? 
Harrison: Sure, it'll 100 percent get out. It'll probably get out before the girls in the limo! The people that go on this show and the people of this generation live to tell things. If someone can't get through a meal without tweeting, do you really think they'll come away with this kind of information and not spill it? No, it's impossible. So it'll get out and that's the way we'll live and we'll have to think about it. Maybe we'll take that moment and announce it somewhere, but it is absolutely impossible to keep this a secret.

What Harrison doesn't mention is that unless they sequester the unpicked woman in a convent for six weeks while they film the show, the first time she's spotted in a grocery store or back at work, everyone will know she's not the Bach'ette. 

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