Jesse Palmer Returning as Host for ‘The Bachelorette’ Season 19 in Summer 2022
SPOILER ALERT: Don’t learn forward, in case you have not watched Clayton Echard’s finale of “The Bachelor,” which aired March 14 and 15 on ABC. After changing Chris Harrison as host of “The Bachelor,” Jesse Palmer has inked a deal to return as host of the franchise’s female-led collection, “The Bachelorette,” which can return with its nineteenth…
SPOILER ALERT: Don’t learn forward, in case you have not watched Clayton Echard’s finale of “The Bachelor,” which aired March 14 and 15 on ABC.
After changing Chris Harrison as host of “The Bachelor,” Jesse Palmer has inked a deal to return as host of the franchise’s female-led collection, “The Bachelorette,” which can return with its nineteenth season this summer time.
“The Bachelorette” Season 19 will make historical past in a franchise first with two main girls: Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia, each finalists from Clayton Echard’s season of “The Bachelor.”
On Echard’s dramatic season finale, which aired on Tuesday evening, Windey and Recchia confronted a twin breakup, stunning viewers who sounded off on Twitter about Echard’s selections. Over the previous couple of episodes, Echard informed each ladies he was in love with them, along with admitting to sleeping with each of them within the fantasy suites. (That mentioned, each ladies definitely deserve one other shot at love on their very own season of “The Bachelorette.”)
“The Bachelorette” usually airs within the spring with a Could premiere. With its premiere set for July 11 this season, the ABC franchise is taking a little bit of a breather and going off the air for a handful of months for the primary time in almost a 12 months.
Final 12 months, “Bachelor” programming was primarily year-round with back-to-back seasons, which was unconventional for the franchise — in 2021, along with Matt James’ season of “The Bachelor” and the return of “Bachelor in Paradise” in the summertime, two seasons of “The Bachelorette” aired in the identical 12 months, with Katie Thurston main Season 17 within the spring, and Michelle Younger starring in Season 18 within the fall.
With “The Bachelorette” now being programmed in the summertime, there’s no phrase fairly but on when precisely “Bachelor In Paradise” will air, although it appears probably it may very well be shifted a bit to debut after Season 19 of “Bachelorette” wraps, someday within the fall. (“The Bachelor,” which is the flagship present of the franchise, at all times premieres in January of the brand new 12 months.)
As for Palmer, this present season of “The Bachelor” was his first as host — although he did star because the precise “Bachelor,” approach again in 2004 for its fifth season. Now fortunately married (to not somebody he met on the relationship present), the previous NFL quarterback is a tv broadcaster, recognized for his faculty soccer commentary on ESPN.
Palmer stepped in to exchange the franchise’s veteran host, Harrison, who hosted the hit relationship collection for almost twenty years, ever since its launch in 2002. Final 12 months, Harrison departed the franchise amid a highly-publicized controversy, relating to his commentary in a now-infamous interview on “Further” with former “Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsey.
Palmer has a longstanding relationship with The Walt Disney Firm, as an ESPN sports activities commentator, and former particular contributor on “Good Morning America.” He additionally hosted “The Final Surfer” final summer time at ABC, and “The Proposal” in 2018, which was created by “The Bachelor” boss Mike Fleiss. He has additionally hosted ABC’s Disney Parks’ vacation specials and ABC’s presentation of the NFL Draft.