Bachelor Pad
| Bachelor Pad | |
|---|---|
 Logo for the first season of Bachelor Pad | |
| Starring | Chris Harrison (host) Melissa Rycroft (host)(Season 1) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Mike Fleiss Martin Hilton Jay Bienstock |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Production companies | Next Entertainment Warner Horizon Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | August 9, 2010 - Present |
| Related | |
| The Bachelor The Bachelorette | |
Bachelor Pad is an elimination-style two-hour American reality television game show that debuted on August 9, 2010 on ABC. The show features contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, who compete for a final cash prize of $250,000. Former game show host and news anchor Chris Harrison reprises his role from The Bachelor, while Melissa Rycroft serves a special guest co-host for the first season.
About the show
The show stars eleven women and eight men eliminated from various seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette who compete for a $250,000 prize. The women on the first season were mostly from the The Bachelor season 14. The men on the first season were mostly from the The Bachelorette season 5. The show may also represent "a second chance at finding love" for those rejected by previous Bachelors and Bachelorettes. The contestants live together in a mansion and take part in challenges to prevent elimination, go on dates with contestants of their choice, and choose other contestants to eliminate.
Show format
At the beginning of the season, each contestant privately votes for a person of the opposite sex to be eliminated. Each week, the person with the highest vote count from each sex is eliminated, while a competition winner casts the deciding vote publicly in the event of a tie. In order to advance to the final eight, the sex with the least number of remaining contestants selects partners for competing as couples. A ballroom dancing competition, similar to Dancing with the Stars, is the final competition. Previous Bachelors and Bachelorettes serve as the judges, with the winning couple deciding the couple it will advance to the final vote. The final vote is left to the eliminated contestants who weigh the most deserving couple to be awarded the $250,000 prize. After the final vote, the couple participates in a Prisoner's Dilemma whereby the male contestant and female contestant must decide whether to keep or share the $250,000 prize. The final twist in the show's format is that if both contestants choose to "keep" the grand prize, the monetary prize is evenly distributed amongst the other eliminated contestants.
Season one ended with Natalie and Dave winning the final vote over Kiptyn and Tenley. The deciding vote was cast by Wes, who opposed Dave throughout the show. Natalie and Dave each chose to share the $250,000, thus leaving each with $125,000. Natalie promised to spend the money on repaying student loans and giving vacations to her parents. Natalie and Dave ended the show as friends, citing geographic constraints, while Kiptyn and Tenley ended the show by referring to each other as boyfriend and girlfriend.
Season 1 Contestants
| Name | Age | Occupation | Residence | From | Eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natalie Getz | 28 | Bartender | Hollywood, CA | The Bachelor, Season 13 | Co-Winner |
| David Good | 28 | Entrepreneur | Dayton, OH | The Bachelorette, Season 5 | Co-Winner |
| Kiptyn Locke | 32 | Sales & Operations Manager | Encinitas, CA | The Bachelorette, Season 5 | Episode 6 |
| Tenley Molzahn | 26 | College Admissions | Huntington Beach, CA | The Bachelor, Season 14 | Episode 6 |
| Elizabeth Kitt | 30 | Sales | Los Angeles, CA | The Bachelor, Season 14 | Episode 6 |
| Jesse Kovacs | 28 | Winemaker | Los Angeles, CA | The Bachelorette, Season 5 | Episode 6 |
| Jesse Beck | 25 | General Contractor | Peculiar, MO | The Bachelorette, Season 6 | Episode 5 |
| Peyton Wright | 27 | Cheerleader Apparel Sales | Dallas, TX | The Bachelor, Season 10 | Episode 5 |
| Ashley Elmore | 30 | Teacher | Fairfax, VA | The Bachelor, Season 14 | Episode 5 |
| Gwen Gioia | 39 | Project Manager | Philadelphia, PA | The Bachelor, Season 2 | Episode 5 |
| Nicole "Nikki" Kaapke | 30 | Administrative Assistant | Chicago, IL | The Bachelor, Season 13 | Episode 5 |
| Wes Hayden | 33 | Country Music Artist | Austin, TX | The Bachelorette, Season 5 | Episode 4 |
| Krisily Kennedy | 30 | Personal Assistant | Los Angeles, CA | The Bachelor, Season 7 | Episode 4 |
| Gia Allemand | 26 | Swimsuit Model | New York, NY | The Bachelor, Season 14 | Episode 3 |
| Jonathan "Weatherman" Novack | 31 | Weatherman | Houston, TX | The Bachelorette, Season 6 | Episode 3 |
| Craig McKinnon | 34 | Dental Sales | Sarnia, ON | The Bachelorette, Season 6 | Episode 2 |
| Jessie Sulidis | 25 | Cosmetics Sales | Oakville, ON | The Bachelor, Season 14 | Episode 2 |
| Juan Barbieri | 37 | General Contractor | Los Angeles, CA | The Bachelorette, Season 5 | Episode 1 |
| Michelle Kujawa | 26 | Sales | Anaheim, CA | The Bachelor, Season 14 | Episode 1 |
The game
| Episode | Air Date | Challenge Winner(s) | Date(s) | Safe Rose(s) | Eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 9, 2010 | Craig | Craig took Elizabeth, Gwen, Jessie | Jessie | Juan, Michelle |
| 2 | August 16, 2010 | Weatherman, Gia | Weatherman took Ashley, Gwen, Peyton Gia took Craig, Jesse B, Wes |
Gwen, Wes | Craig, Jessie |
| 3 | August 23, 2010 | Dave, Peyton | Dave took Krisily, Natalie, Nikki Peyton took Jesse B, Kovacs, Kiptyn |
Natalie, Jesse B | Weatherman, Gia |
| 4 | August 30, 2010 | Jesse B, Tenley | Tenley took Kiptyn Jesse B took Peyton |
Kiptyn, Peyton | Krisily, Wes |
| 5 | September 6, 2010 | Dave, Natalie | Dave and Natalie went on a date | Dave, Natalie | Ashley, Gwen, Nikki, Jesse B, Peyton |
| 6 | September 13, 2010 | Kiptyn, Tenley | None | Kiptyn, Tenley | Elizabeth, Kovacs |
| Dave, Natalie | None | N/A | Kiptyn, Tenley |
Reception
Bachelor Pad received mixed reviews from television critics, and currently holds a "mixed or average" 48 out of 100 rating on review aggregate Metacritic.[1]
Elimination chart
| Place | Contestant | Episodes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| 1 | Natalie | In | In | Safe | In | Win | Last | Winner | |
| 1 | David | In | In | Win | In | Win | Last | Winner | |
| 3 | Kiptyn | In | Last | Date | Safe | In | Win | Out | |
| 3 | Tenley | In | In | In | Win | In | Win | Out | |
| 5 | Elizabeth | Date | In | Last | In | Last | Out | ||
| 5 | Kovacs | Last | In | Last | Last | Last | Out | ||
| 7 | Jesse B. | In | Date | Safe | Win | Out | |||
| 7 | Peyton | In | Date | Win | Safe | Out | |||
| 9 | Ashley | In | Date | In | In | Out | |||
| 9 | Gwen | Date | Safe | In | Last | Out | |||
| 9 | Nikki | In | In | Date | In | Out | |||
| 12 | Wes | In | Safe | In | Out | ||||
| 12 | Krisily | Last | Last | Date | Out | ||||
| 14 | Gia | In | Win | Out | |||||
| 14 | Weatherman | In | Win | Out | |||||
| 16 | Craig | Win | Out | ||||||
| 16 | Jessie | Safe | Out | ||||||
| 18 | Juan | Out | |||||||
| 18 | Michelle | Out | |||||||
Key
- The contestant is male.
- The contestant is female.
- Winner The contestant won the competition and split the prize.
- Win The contestant won a challenge and was granted immunity.
- Safe The contestant went on a date and was given a rose by a challenge winner, thus getting immunity.
- Date The contestant went on a date but was not given a rose on the date.
- In The contestant received a rose at the end of the episode, thus remaining in the competition.
- Last The contestant received the last rose.
- Last The contestant went on a date and received the last rose.
- Last The contestant won a tie-breaker and received the last rose.
- Out The contestant lost a tie-breaker and was eliminated.
- Out The contestant went on a date and was eliminated.
- Out The contestant was eliminated.
Season 2 Contestants
The game Season 2
| Episode | Air Date | Challenge Winner(s) | Date(s) | Safe Rose(s) | Eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 8, 2011 | Jake, Jackie | Jake and Jackie went on a date | Jake, Jackie, Vienna | Justin, Alli |
| 2 | August 15, 2011 | Michael, Melissa | Michael took Erica, Michelle, Holly Melissa took Kirk, Kasey, Blake |
Holly, Blake | Gia, Jackie, Ames |
| 3 | August 22, 2011 | Michael, Michelle | |||
| 4 | August 29, 2011 | ||||
| 5 | September 5, 2011 |
Elimination Table
| Place | Contestant | Episodes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Blake | In | Safe | Date | |||
| Ella | In | Last | ||||
| Erica | In | Date | ||||
| Graham | In | In | Safe | |||
| Holly | In | Safe | ||||
| Jake | Win | In | ||||
| Kasey | Last | Date | Date | |||
| Kirk | In | Date | ||||
| Melissa | In | Win | ||||
| Michael | In | Win | Win | |||
| Michelle | In | Date | Win | |||
| Vienna | Safe | In | ||||
| William | In | In | ||||
| 14 | Ames | In | Quit | |||
| 15 | Jackie | Win | Out | |||
| 16 | Gia | Last | Quit | |||
| 17 | Alli | Out | ||||
| 18 | Justin | Out | ||||
Key
- The contestant is male.
- The contestant is female.
- Winner The contestant won the competition and split the prize.
- Win The contestant won a challenge and was granted immunity.
- Safe The contestant went on a date and was given a rose by a challenge winner, thus getting immunity.
- Date The contestant went on a date but was not given a rose on the date.
- In The contestant received a rose at the end of the episode, thus remaining in the competition.
- Last The contestant received the last rose.
- Last The contestant went on a date and received the last rose.
- Last The contestant won a tie-breaker and received the last rose.
- Out The contestant lost a tie-breaker and was eliminated.
- Out The contestant went on a date and was eliminated.
- Out The contestant was eliminated.
- Quit The contestant walked out of the competition.