With Grant’s Bachelor season nearly over and carried out with, it’s time to stay up for the subsequent Bachelorette. However right here’s the place the unhappy information is available in: There gained’t be a brand new Bachelorette for 2025, and there’s no affirmation on when the present will come again.
Deadline reported in February 2025 that The Bachelorette — which had aired on ABC every year since its premiere in 2003 — was canceled for its normal time slot in 2025. Per the journal, The Bachelorette sometimes begins manufacturing in March, with the previous three seasons premiering in July. This yr, nonetheless, will likely be totally different with the present on a hiatus.
Whereas The Bachelorette was canceled from its normal time slot, Deadline reported that it’s going to doubtless return to ABC sooner or later and that the community hasn’t dominated out a return later this yr. The Bachelorette additionally isn’t the primary Bachelor Nation present ABC has placed on pause. Bachelor in Paradise was additionally paused in 2024, with its normal time slot taken by The Golden Bachelorette, earlier than ABC’s announcement that BIP would return in the summertime of 2025.
With The Bachelorette‘s future within the air, followers can’t assist however ask why the present was canceled and who was nearly the subsequent Bachelorette earlier than the present was placed on hiatus. Effectively, the 2 solutions could possibly be associated.
Who was nearly the subsequent Bachelorette for 2025?
Maria Georgas, the fourth-place finalist on The Bachelor Season 28 with Joey Graziadei, was rumored to be the frontrunner to guide The Bachelorette Season 22 earlier than the present was canceled for 2025. Bachelor Nation alums Ashley Iaconetti and Ben Higgins reported on an episode of their podcast, “Virtually Well-known,” in February 2025 that Maria was nearly the Season 22 Bachelorette, nonetheless, as a consequence of unknown conflicts, ABC and Maria couldn’t make Season 22 work, which is why The Bachelorette was canceled for 2025.
“We’re fairly sure Maria was a frontrunner to be the Bachelorette as she was a frontrunner to be the Bachelorette throughout Jenn’s season. The supply says that they don’t know precisely what occurred, however they couldn’t make Maria occur and that’s why the present didn’t get picked up as a result of I’m assuming they didn’t have a robust sufficient result in get sufficient rankings,” Ashley I. stated.
Ashley I. additionally revealed that two contestants from The Bachelor Season 29 with Grant Ellis have been additionally thought-about to be the subsequent Bachelorette, nonetheless, she didn’t title which of them. One other Bachelorette ABC reportedly thought-about was Rachel Recchia, the lead of The Bachelorette Season 19 with Gabby Windey who was cheated on by her winner, Tino Franco. (Rachel was later a contestant on Bachelor in Paradise Season 9.) “Our sources are saying that they have been additionally considering of giving Rachel Recchia a redo. They stated her title was floated round, however they stated there’s a purpose she couldn’t do it and we are able to’t reveal that purpose in actual time, however manufacturing and followers love Rachel and I personally would’ve beloved to see Rachel’s personal season. She’s so likable. I actually, actually love that woman, however there’s one thing else thrilling for her,” Ashley I. stated.
Regardless of the 4 choices — Maria, Rachel and two contestants from Grant’s Bachelor season — Ben maintained that Maria was, by far, the frontrunner to be the subsequent Bachelorette. “It appears like from our supply that Maria was the frontrunner,” he stated. “The powers that be actually wished to be the lead of this season. It actually sounds to me that they couldn’t make it work with Maria for no matter purpose that was, and due to that, they needed to pull the plug on the present as a result of someone who had a whole lot of affect on the present was pretty caught on that storyline saying, ‘If we don’t do Maria, it’s not price doing.’”
He continued, “This looks like the explanation this season isn’t occurring. The rankings haven’t been adequate. Despite the fact that I believe there have been nice seasons, however I’m going again to I believe the present took a large hit with the lads that have been forged for Jenn’s season. Jenn did an excellent job. I believe we’ve seen Jenn thrive after her position because the Bachelorette, however I believe the lads on her season actually harm the present,” Ben stated. “And since the present did the ‘don’t ask, don’t inform’ technique, I believe the present is in a very robust place.”
As Bachelor Nation followers know, Maria additionally claimed she was obtained the supply to be the Season 21 Bachelorette and even did costume fittings for the present, nonetheless, she turned it down near the final minute. (Jenn Tran, one other contestant from The Bachelor Season 28 with Joey, was later introduced because the Season 21 Bachelorette as an alternative.)
“I used to be provided the position. It was mine till I stated it wasn’t,” Maria stated on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast in Might 2024. “It grew to become very overwhelming to the purpose the place I needed to decline.” She continued, “I simply was not prepared.”
Jenn, for her half, denied that Maria was ever formally chosen to be the Bachelorette earlier than her in her personal interview on “Name Her Daddy” in July 2024. “Clearly I didn’t have my telephone on the time all of this was taking place as a result of we had went proper into filming proper after it was all introduced,” Jenn stated of Maria’s interview. “Coming again to all of that, yeah, clearly I used to be actually disillusioned to see all of that as a result of, I imply, the reality of the matter is, there’s a whole lot of narratives on the market and so they’re not essentially the reality.”
She continued, “A number of persons are being interviewed, or doing conferences about all of it, doing fittings or filming intro packages, and it’s by no means actually you till it’s you.” Jenn additionally claimed that she was not approached to be the Bachelorette on the final minute and had conferences with producers for months earlier than she obtained a telephone name with the official supply. “They requested me and I had the selection and I selected to do it. I stated sure,” she stated. “The factor with the narrative units out proper now could be it was disappointing to come back again from this unbelievable journey for myself after which to see all of the hypothesis round it and to nearly have this stuff form of take away from what my journey was.”
Why was The Bachelorette canceled for 2025?
Ashley I. and Ben claimed on their podcast that 75 % of the filming dates for The Bachelorette Season 22, together with in European places like Greece and Portugal, have been set earlier than ABC determined to cancel the present for 2025. The hosts additionally alleged that an iHeartRadio podcast-themed date was additionally within the works with Ben and Ashley I., in addition to different iHeartRadio podcast hosts like Jana Kramer, Jennie Garth, Kevin McHale, and Jenna Ushkowitz set to participate. The date allegedly was a competition-themed date with the winner receiving an invitation to the iHeartRadio Music Awards.
As a result of The Bachelorette was reportedly planning to movie in Europe as an alternative of primarily staying in Los Angeles to avoid wasting prices — like ABC did with The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette — Ben acknowledged on the podcast that he didn’t consider The Bachelorette was canceled in 2025 as a consequence of cash. Ben and Ashley I. claimed that the primary purpose they heard The Bachelorette was canceled for 2025 was as a result of ABC couldn’t discover as robust of a lead as Maria. One more reason is that ABC reportedly believed that the community may fill The Bachelorette‘s normal time slot with Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which has an identical demographic.
Whereas The Bachelorette gained’t air a brand new season in 2025, Ben maintained that he believed the present would come again sooner or later. “I don’t assume the present goes away eternally,” he stated. Ashley I. added, “And neither do the individuals at ABC. They skipped [Bachelor in] Paradise final yr and now it’s again. And possibly they’re going to do the identical factor for The Bachelorette. It’s slightly reboot time.”
The Bachelorette streams on Hulu.