Bachelor Show Women Bachelorette People End Relationships Dates

The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are popular "reality TV shows" (shows made by filming regular people in their interactions, not actors following a script) and dating "game shows" (TV shows about a competition). For example, in each season of The Bachelor, the show selects a "wealthy" (with a lot of money), "attractive" (good-looking) "bachelor" (an unmarried man) and puts him in a "luxurious" (very nice, fancy, expensive, and comfortable) environment with approximately 25 beautiful young women. The "premise" (main idea) of the show is that the bachelor will "propose to" (ask to marry) one of these women at the end of the season. In The Bachelorette, the "genders" (male/female) are "reversed" (switched), but the premise is the same.

The episodes show how the relationships develop as the "contestants" (the people who are competing for something) get to know each other and the bachelor. At first, they stay in the luxurious "accommodations" (where someone stays and sleeps), but as the show "progresses" (advances; continues), they go on individual dates, group dates, and trips to romantic destinations. At the end of each episode, if the bachelor gives a woman a rose, she is safe and will be in the next episode. Women who do not get a rose are "eliminated" and have to leave.

In the "penultimate" (second-to-last; one before the last) episode, only two women are left, and each of them say that they hope the bachelor will propose to them. Of course, the bachelor proposes to only one of them (or, in some cases, neither), leaving one of them "heartbroken" (extremely sad). Many of the couples have a "short-lived" (not lasting for very long) relationship after the show's conclusion before "breaking up" (ending a romantic relationship), but a few have married and/or had children.