‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Morning-After Rose Ceremony: Episode 1

No roses to Scary Jared, who still hasn't learned how to properly shave his face.

AND SO THE MADNESS BEGINS!!! (Photo: ABC)
AND SO THE MADNESS BEGINS!!! (Photo: ABC)

Bachelor in Paradise is our reward for slogging through weeks of Kaitlyn, Shawn and Nick’s nonsense. Join us, as contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette seasons past stop being polite, and start getting real (drunk and crazy). 

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rose iconA rose to Chris Harrison, a model of how to totally de-stress after delivering maybe six lines of speech throughout the entire Bachelorette season six months of truly vigorous hard work.

"WHEW hosting is hard u guys!!!" (Photo: ABC)
“WHEW hosting is hard u guys!!!” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to the 80 years of advancements in women’s rights that went promptly down the toilet when Jillian announced she got breast implants specifically because she’d be appearing on Bachelor in Paradise.

Feminism! (Photo: ABC)
“doctor what is feminism lol” (Photo: ABC)

Then again, we first met Jillian on a show where 25 women fought viciously for the honor of marrying one random Iowan man. So, like, the toilet was already a’swirlin’.

rose iconSpeaking of the aforementioned breast implants, a rose to every viewer who experienced a minor panic attack every time Jillian greeted a new Paradise arrival like this:

"look what i got!!!!" (Photo: ABC)
“omg hiiiiiiii!!!!” (Photo: ABC)
"Can they pop?" "honestly idk lol!!!!!!" (Photo: ABC)
“let me squeeze your body against my liquid-filled chest!!!!” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to Scary Jared, who unfortunately filmed Bachelor in Paradise before appearing on The Men Tell All, and therefore arrived in Paradise with no understanding that this is not how one should groom the foliage on one’s face:

"listen u guys i just wanna pass for being over 16" (Photo: ABC)
“listen u guys i just wanna pass for being over 16” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to Virgin Ashley’s sister, Lauren, who totally doesn’t even go here, and yet who gets more action in her first two minutes in Paradise than Virgin Ashley has had in her whole life.

Actually, I’m taking that rose away because said action went down with Mikey, a self-described “alpha-” and “testosterone-driven male” and who regularly sports icky sweat stains in the valleys around his unnaturally-bulgy pecs.

"lololol Ashley remember how you're a virgin?????" (Photo: ABC)
“lololol Ashley remember how you’re a virgin?????” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconWow, no roses to Jade for totally un-called-for self-righteousness. “I just don’t see Lauren as the kind of girl guys want to marry,” says Jade, a grown woman who willingly volunteered to spend three weeks on a sex island for the entertainment of American reality TV viewers.

rose iconA rose to what happens when The Bachelor becomes your whole life: You have so few remaining friends, your entire wedding party is comprised of desperate singles who stumbled upon your wedding by chance as they frolicked about in bikinis, desperately trying to bang each other.

"its so nice to see all your friends here support you, Lacy" (Photo: ABC)
“its so nice to see all your friends here support you, Lacy” (Photo: ABC)
"wait am i at a wedding" (Photo: ABC)
“wait am i at a wedding” (Photo: ABC)

Then again, perhaps it wasn’t Marcus and Lacy’s involvement with reality TV that turned so many friends away from them, but rather that time they dressed as elves and did a Christmas photoshoot:

An actual thing that actually happened. Actually. (Photos: Instagram/Lacy Faddoul)
An actual thing that actually happened. Actually. (Photos: Instagram/Lacy Faddoul)

rose iconFor realz, though, a trillion roses to Marcus and Lacy, because the more times The Bachelor results in a wedding—and not a break-up two nanoseconds after filming ends—the longer Chris Harrison can convince ABC his show has the teensiest iota of credibility, and the longer we can continue voluntarily incinerating our brain cells once a week.

"We are gathered here today so we can assure you this show sometimes works, believe it or not" (Photo: ABC)
“We are gathered here today so i can assure you this show sometimes actually works” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to a confession I must make: Ever since Kirk appeared on Ali’s season of The Bachelorette, my dad and I have referred to him by one very specific nickname. What is it, you ask? Allow me to explain. On Ali’s season, Kirk told a tragic sob story: that he was SUPER SICK for a long time, and no one could figure out what was wrong with him. He was basically on his deathbed when the diagnosis was finally made: mold. Mold in his house. All mold errything.

So from here on out, Kirk shalt be known by the nickname I’ve been using for him since the year 2010: Moldy Kirk. I can’t help it.

rose iconA rose to Moldy Kirk for being totally consumed by something other than mold: passionate love for Carly.

"my love for u is spreading like the mold that once canvassed my bedroom wall" (Photo: ABC)
“my love for u is spreading like the mold that once canvassed my bedroom wall” (Photo: ABC)

This hook-up is also good news for Carly, who, as we learned from Chris’s season of The Bachelor, recently dated a (possibly gay) dude who never once showed an interest in physical interaction of any kind.

"it's fun to be touched" (Photo: ABC)
“it’s fun to be touched” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to our best hope, thus far, of this season of Bachelor in Paradise resulting in another marriage.

"I am greatly attracted to your ravishing looks and refreshing level of confidence, Ashley." (Photo: ABC)
“babe u would look so hot in a tux” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA thousand sympathy roses to Virgin Ashley, who has so little romantic experience, she a) thinks that “tell me about Kaitlyn—I feel like you’re not over her” is a good way to initiate sex activities with Jared, and b) ranks their utterly chemistry-less date in the “top tier” of all the dates she’s ever been on.

"so r u still super sad about kaitlyn not loving u back" (Photo: ABC)
“so r u still super sad about kaitlyn not loving u back” (Photo: ABC)
"yeah i'm still super sad" (Photo: ABC)
“yeah i’m still super sad” (Photo: ABC)
"we're prob gonna get married" (Photo: ABC)
“we’re prob gonna get married” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconUh, no roses to whatever BIZARRE editing decision resulted in us seeing Ashley S. carted off in an ambulance, with literally zero explanation of a) what’s wrong with her, b) if she’s coming back, and c) whether this is even a real emergency, or just Ashley S. getting bored and deciding it would be fun to fake death instead.

-- NO FURTHER CONTEXT GIVEN -- (Photo: ABC)
“brb going to the hospital” (Photo: ABC)
"hey baby is this a.... sex thing?" (Photo: ABC)
“this is a great way for both of us to get screen time” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to Jade, the first woman within a 50-foot radius of any Bachelor set not just to invite Tanner on a one-on-one date, but to acknowledge Tanner’s existence whatsoever.

The two are super into each other, especially after Tanner declares he’s totes okay with Jade’s Playboy-modeling past. Tanner declares he has a better connection with Jade after one date than he had with Kailtyn throughout her entire season. Then they go in the water and lick each other’s faces and stuff.

"so tanner ur rly enjoying this date huh" (Photo: ABC)
“so tanner ur rly enjoying this date huh” (Photo: ABC)
"it's mostly just kewl that u know my name" (Photo: ABC)
“to be honest it’s mostly just kewl that u know my name” (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to poor Claire, who’s trying really hard to convince herself it’s totally acceptable—nay, downright noble—to have signed up for a second round of Bachelor in Paradise.

“It would be easy to walk away,” Claire tells Chris Harrison of her failed first jaunt in Paradise, “but one thing I never give up on is love.”

AN AMERICAN HERO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. (Photo: ABC)
AN AMERICAN HERO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. (Photo: ABC)

rose iconA rose to ending homelessness, curing childhood obesity, and all the other productive things you could be doing tomorrow night—but that won’t happen, because instead you’ll be watching 947 more hours of Bachelor in Paradise. All hail the two-night season premiere.

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Morning-After Rose Ceremony: Episode 1