'It's Comedic Gold': Celebrities Who Love The Bachelor as Much as You Do
The Bombshell actress shared her excitement for Peter Weber's season of The Bachelor on Instagram. "Turbulence I like," Theron joked about Weber's poster which read: "Expect Turbulence."
Months before, she'd spoken about her Monday night ABC ritual.
"On Monday nights, because my kids can't read a clock yet, I get them to bed at like 5:45 p.m., and then I open up a bottle of wine, I take a bath, I get all ready," Theron said on The Late Late Show. "And then I watch The Bachelor, and that's my date night."
During a September 2022 visit to SiriusXM, the actress — who appeared on Rachel Lindsay's 2017 Bachelorette season — said the latest two-contestant season of The Bachelorette was "a little wonky ... it was one of these weird things where you didn't even have time to invest in anybody's relationship because they were showcasing two separate people falling madly in love," she said. "And you're, like normally within the span of a season, you watch the people fall in love and you are invested. And here you never even got to watch them fall in love. It kind of just happened."
The Dropout star revealed she's secretly a huge fan of the ABC dating competition series during an appearance on an August 2022 episode of Sirius XM's The Jess Cagle Show. But, much like other fans, she has some reservations about fully owning up to her love for the show.
"God, I struggle with it more and more each year. I really do," Seyfried joked. "I'm just like, this formula works. It does, but it hasn't evolved quick enough for me to feel, you know, guilt-free when I watch it."
Aniston's hair stylist Justin Anderson appeared on the Bachelor "Click Bait" podcast in April 2021 and confirmed the A-list actress is a fan of the series. "We talk about it all the time," he said. "I will admit that a first time I got invited over to Jennifer's house to watch The Bachelor. Is that a secret? I hope it's not!"
When you're one of the biggest stars on reality TV, obviously you have a direct line to the host of The Bachelor. That's what Kardashian revealed during the finale of Peter Weber's season, when she not only showed off the cakes she was serving at her watch party featuring images of Peter and finalists Hannah Ann and Madison, but also her FaceTime session with former host Chris Harrison, whom she said was giving her "all the tea."
After Bachelorette Hannah Brown wowed the judges with her romantic waltz performance to Taylor Swift's "Lover" on Dancing with the Stars, Swift took to Instagram to make sure Brown knew she had gained a new fan.
The singer posted an Instagram Story video of Brown's dance with partner Alan Bersten and wrote, "Loving watching @hannahbrown dancing to 'Lover' on DWTS!! This performance is so pretttyy & twirly," over the clip.
The actress went from skeptic to full-fledged fan after watching Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette and season 6 of Bachelor in Paradise.
"I never understood, I was like, 'what's the big deal?' But then the last two [seasons] were exciting," Benson told PEOPLE in September 2019 at an event hosted by Bachelor stars Becca Tilley and JoJo Fletcher.
"I'm obsessed. I've Instagram messaged every single person on there," she admitted.
The star even discovered she shares a favorite snack with John Paul Jones from Bachelorette Hannah Brown's season.
"He loves chicken nuggets, and I actually sent him a video of me eating chicken nuggets from McDonald's," she confessed.
While watching The Bachelorette with her mom in May 2019, Lovato posted on her Instagram story, "I've never watched the Bachelorette or the Bachelor but she is soooo cute!!"
Bachelorette Hannah Brown saw the tweet — and life will never be the same.
"Me everyday for the rest of my life: Demi Lovato called me cute!" the Miss Alabama winner wrote on Twitter.
Kendrick just may be the biggest Bachelor fan in Hollywood — or at least, its most prolific live tweeter. The actress frequently tweets along with the Monday night show, and shares her thoughts on the contestants. "Kaitlyn can do better," she tweeted during Chris Soules' season of The Bachelor. "Like if my boyfriend left me for her, I'd get it. #TheBachelor."
She's the matriarch of reality television, so it's no surprise that Jenner has some love for The Bachelor. She's called into shows like After Paradise in the past, and proved how long she's been a fan when, on season 1 of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she said she "just wanted to lay in bed and watch The Bachelor." Kris, you just get it.
Diggs dropped his ambivalent facade back in 2012 when he admitted that, like the rest of us, he's "addicted" to The Bachelor. "I'm watching DVR ed episodes of the bachelor," he tweeted. "I'm addicted. I may have a problem. I'm sorry." Don't worry, watching The Bachelor just makes you even more cool.
The Girls star has never been shy about expressing her love for The Bachelor in all of its forms. And it's had a profound effect on her life, too: She met her now-ex husband, Ricky Van Veen, at a Bachelor viewing party — and he proposed there three years later! "I would not be married to my husband if it weren't for this show," she said. "We went to a weekly viewing party every week and it was like a big group date, but with both genders equally distributed. It was like how we met up."
Garfield has no shame — he just loves The Bachelor. So much so that he thinks he'd be star struck by the cast. "Take Sean from The Bachelor," he told Vulture. "If I met him, I'd be like, 'Oh my God, it's Sean Lowe!' "
When you're watching The Bachelor, you don't want to miss a minute. Hyland's pal Jaime King tweeted that she's super-quiet when speaking on the phone during an episode. And Hyland herself confirmed her love of the show when she tweeted a photo of herself with former Bachelor Ben Higgins — a "pretty big deal," she said. But the biggest sign yet of her fandom? Her marriage to Wells Adams, who's appeared on three different seasons of Bachelor programs.
During an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Penn admitted that he's a fan of The Bachelor. However, he said that he does prefer to fast forward through the bulk of the "conversations." "I want to hear the decisions," he told Kimmel. "And I want to see someone cry."
If you watched Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette, you know that Schumer is enough of a fan of The Bachelor that she stopped by to participate in one of the group dates. Later, fans campaigned for Schumer herself to be The Bachelorette. She said she'd do it — if she got a "lot of money" and the freedom to be herself. (She's now happily married.)
Though Mayer says he'd enjoy being The Bachelor, he doesn't think the process would work for him. "I think it would be really fun to be the bachelor," Mayer told Ellen DeGeneres. "I don't think that I would find love there, unless they would change the vetting process for who would be the contestants." He also said that he thought it would be "one of the lowest-rated shows," to which we respectfully disagree.
Jones loves The Bachelor so much, she wants to be The Bachelorette herself. Specifically, to date Ben Higgins. She called her publicist and told her to get her on the show; her publicist advised that it might ruin her career. However, in January 2020 she confirmed that she dated former Bachelor Nick Viall for a short period after his stint on the series.
Let's face it: The Bachelor is America's guilty pleasure. But Big Little Lies star Scott has no shame. "I refuse to say it's a guilty pleasure, because I feel no guilt whatsoever," he said.
Why does Dunst watch The Bachelor? The comedy factor, of course! "[It's] one of the funniest, smartest shows on television," she told Jimmy Kimmel. "It's comedic gold."
Way back in 2011, Hewitt tweeted at Ashley Hebert's runner-up, Ben Flajnik, asking him to accept her own "final rose" — and that she loved the ring he had chosen. The tweet worked - they reportedly later went on a date!
Chris Harrison met Lawrence, who was quick to tell the host about her love for the show. "Jennifer Lawrence was awesome," he said. "I was so blown away by her performance and I was really looking forward to meeting her. And then she walks up and she tells me how much she loves [the show]. I'm like, 'You like The Bachelor?' and she was like, 'Duh, I'm a girl.' "
Charlize Theron
The Bombshell actress shared her excitement for Peter Weber's season of The Bachelor on Instagram. "Turbulence I like," Theron joked about Weber's poster which read: "Expect Turbulence."
Months before, she'd spoken about her Monday night ABC ritual.
"On Monday nights, because my kids can't read a clock yet, I get them to bed at like 5:45 p.m., and then I open up a bottle of wine, I take a bath, I get all ready," Theron said on The Late Late Show. "And then I watch The Bachelor, and that's my date night."
Everyone loves the franchise — even these celebrities, who aren't at all afraid to admit it
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