Bachelor Nation is really going through it right now, because we’re living through the messiest Bachelorette drama since Arie Luyendyk Jr. dumped Becca Kufrin on camera weeks after proposing to her in the Bachelor finale. Maybe even messier. And I don’t mean that in the our-most-dramatic-season-finale-ever way, either.
For everyone who is only visiting Bachelor Nation on a tourist visa and not a longtime resident: A primer on the Bachelorette drama between Jenn Tran, Devin Strader, and Melissa Georgas that is continuing to unfold after After the Final Rose.
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What happened on the finale?
Traditionally, every Bachelor and Bachelorette and now Golden Bachelor/ette season ends with a proposal. Jenn Tran, the first Asian Bachelorette, switched things up only slightly by proposing to her finale pick, Devin Strader, instead of letting him propose to her. He accepted, and everything seemed to be going according to the usual plan.
But before viewers even saw the proposal, the show revealed that while Jenn and Devin had left Hawaii engaged, their engagement ended when Devin broke up with Jenn over the phone a few weeks before a planned Happy Couple visit from production. At least he didn’t do it on camera, right? “He basically said that he didn’t love me anymore and didn’t feel the same way,” Jenn told host Jesse Palmer on the finale episode. “He denied ever being in love… He was checked out. It wasn’t what he wanted anymore.”
That would be bad enough but, unfortunately, the audacity continued.
What does Maria Georgas have to do with this?
Maria Georgas was a fan-favorite contestant on Joey Graziadei’s season of The Bachelor. She revealed on the Call Her Daddy podcast that she was supposed to be this season’s Bachelorette lead, but she backed out and was replaced with Jenn.
