Monday, January 4, 2016

Half Their Size

Issue dated January 11, 2016
Half Their Size Cover

Here's the current cover, no surprise, including a short story about Bachelor Ben. The excitement starts tonight, rosebuds, and can you believe that this is the 20th time we've done this, not even including The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad or Bachelor In Paradise? Can you name all the previous Bachelors? I probably couldn't either, off the top of my head, but last year at this time I did a little googling and came up with the complete list:

  1. Alex Michel
  2. Aaron Buerge
  3. Andrew Firestone
  4. Bob Guiney
  5. Jesse Palmer
  6. Byron Velvick
  7. Charlie O'Connell
  8. Travis Stork
  9. Lorenzo Borghese
  10. Andrew Baldwin
  11. Brad Womack (the first time around)
  12. Matt Grant
  13. Jason Mesnick
  14. Jake Pavelka
  15. Brad Womack (second try) 
  16. Ben Flajnik
  17. Sean Lowe
  18. Juan Pablo Galavais
  19. Chris Soules 
Of all these distinguished gentlemen, only Jason Mesnick and Sean Lowe are actually married to women they met on the show. Will Ben join them? Probably not, but who cares. After 19 seasons, the producers have the whole process down to a science. There will be drama and crying, flirting and kissing, fantasy suites and flying to foreign countries, along with lots and lots of roses, just as we've seen 19 times before. As I've said before, in the middle of a cold Chicago winter, it's fun to settle in on the couch and watch the whole thing play out. 

As our host Chris Harrison says, Let the journey begin. 

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