The Bachelor season 29: “The Women Tell All” special featured more drama than ever as the women rehashed their season — full of arguments. Never before seen footage and previews of the rest of Grant Ellis’ season were also shown.
“Should we start spilling some tea?” host Jesse Palmer said as the episode opened.
The ladies must have listened, because there was probably five inaudible minutes due to the amount of women arguing at once. For the most part they were arguing about Carolina, who as this opening segment wrapped up, left the room in tears.
Alexe
Alexe was the first contestant brought to the hot seat, where they reflected on how she was the first impression rose and had the first one-on-one date.
She confessed she was shocked when she was sent home, but it was hard to sustain a connection that bloomed so early on.
Alexe’s time on the floor ended positively as The Bachelor producers brought out Linda the Llama from night one.
“Where is she?” Alexe asked when hearing the news.
Serafiena
Serafiena was also brought for a one-on-one conversation with Jesse, where she shared how hard yet rewarding it was to open up to Grant.
“I love so hard and I really want someone that sees that in me,” she said.
They brought up how she was apprehensive to kiss Grant while her mom was watching. Her mom even sent a video to Jesse.
“I can confirm, I did watch it,” Serafiena’s mom said. “When I saw the kiss, I turned away for a little bit. Then, I laughed.”
Dina
During her hot seat, Dina revealed that it was actually her decision to not have any family members on her hometown date. She saw the contention it was causing and figured it would be better to just have Grant meet her friends at that time.
The self-proclaimed “Ice Queen” also talked about what it meant opening up to Grant, despite generally being a guarded person
“It taught me that I’m able to put my walls down for the right person,” she said.
Carolina
While Carolina did discuss her connection with Grant for a bit, most of her time was spent discussing the drama of the season, which mainly surrounded her.
She apologized to Rose for any contention she might have caused between her and Grant, but said she didn’t regret how things went down.
Dina backed up Rose by saying that Carolina wasn’t taking accountabili
ty which led to an argument between Carolina and Dina.
“The way you came at me in Scotland — you were
chasing me around the castle, Dina,” Carolina said.
The two argued in circles until Jesse had to transition into another topic. Carolina confessed that she was not only upset with the women, but also with Grant.
“If he’s gonna be impacted by other peoples opinions, then that wasn’t the guy for me anyways,” she said.
Grant
Grant arrived on the scene and the women gained closure by asking him their lingering questions.
Dina asked why Grant told the cameras that her family not being at hometowns was “make or break,” but didn’t express those concerns to Dina herself. Carolina also questioned Grant for telling Dina that he “clocked” some negative energy surrounding Carolina before sending her home.
Grant successfully dodged both confrontations.
“Maybe I could’ve watched my words a little more carefully and been precise with what I said, but I did my best,” he said. “Moving forward, I’ll just take notes.”
He’ll take notes? For future dating endeavors? He’s gotta be single.
Once again, Carolina and the rest of the girls began fighting. This time Grant had to watch. He looked miserable.
The rest of his segment was relatively drama-free — much to my dismay, Jesse never asked him about the song he released called “Party Girl” the day before his season aired. However, Jesse did beat Grant in a game of chubby bunny.
More
All night long Jesse teased the audience with “never before seen footage that would clear up all the drama ish.”
He pulled out a magic mirror — promo for Disney’s upcoming Snow White, and asked it who the sleepiest in the house was. The answer was Serafiena. Through the mirror we also discovered that Parisa was the messiest, Dina was the cleanest and Grant liked looking in the mirror the most, but none of this footage cleared up the drama.
Finally, Jesse asked the mirror if Grant actually told Rose that he was thinking of her when dancing with Carolina. Footage from that episode that we had seen before was shown. I’ve already broken down this drama in a previous Reality Check article.
What’s next?
The fantasy suit episode will air Monday, March 17 and the finale will air Monday, March 23. Exclusive previews show Grant’s struggle making this decision.
“Both women are on their way right now and I really need to know who to send first. Do you feel like you know what you want to do?”
The person who gets sent first is the one who gets rejected.
“The truth is, I don’t know.”
Grant might not know how his season ends, but I do.
He sends Zoe home after fantasy suits. In the final moments, he chooses to propose to Juliana, but I think they break up soon after filming ends. No engaged man is posting on social media the way he does.
Author: Heather Turner
Editor: Anna Mower
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