In the final season of The Bachelor, Clayton Echard, the series' 26th lead, said after dating a budding wannabe, "If I ever need confirmation that this process is working, I'll see him act in first." Me."
But judging by the numbers, it's perhaps unsurprising that this "trial" - a week-long mass courtship in front of cameras that is expected to end with a proposal and presumably marriage - isn't very effective in building long-term relationships.
Since "The Bachelor" debuted on ABC in March 2002 and "The Bachelorette" the following year, only six couples who met on those shows are currently married. A seventh is due to marry in May. Meanwhile, there were 34 TV offerings out of a total of 44 seasons. If you include those who met on other spin-offs, the number of currently married couples jumps from six to ten. (Representatives for Warner Bros. and ABC declined to comment for this article.)
What to make of some of the most dramatic stories of these still-married couples as the franchise enters its 20th year? Below, five of the six who met on "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" share how they've come to terms since meeting on set. (The sixth couple, Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo, declined to comment for this article.)
Catherine and Sean Lowe
The Lowes met on the 17th season of The Bachelor, which aired in 2013 and ended with Mr Lowe proposing on camera in Thailand. They married the following year.
The couple, who live in Dallas with their two sons, aged 5 and 3, and daughter, 2, have since built a life around what Ms Lowe described as "super cool" family traditions, including the homemade pizza making.
"Our happy place is at home with our children," said Ms Lowe, 35, who runs a local gift service and founded a furniture line of the same name with her husband called Home by Sean & Catherine Lowe.
Mr Lowe, 38, said when people asked him how he found love on The Bachelor, his answer was always the same. "I liken it to meeting 25 strangers on a dating app; you could get in touch with any of them," he said.
But "then you have to get into the real world, and that takes work," he added.
Whether he and Ms Lowe, or any couple who married after meeting on the show, managed to stay together still seems unlikely to him. "When girls ride lawnmowers in bikinis, it's just silly," he said. "All the elements work against building a long-term relationship."
However, Ms Lowe said she left the show feeling wiser about how to create a successful partnership. The quick experience of courtesy made them realize the importance of focusing on the "non-negotiables" at the start of a romance, rather than worrying about "things that don't matter, like leaving the toilet seat open".
She added that meeting Mr. Lowe on set with other people around helped her understand his character better, and recalled a time when she saw him talking to the crew and "got noted that he knew everyone's name".
"I took that as an idea of who he really was when the cameras were off," Lowe said.
Alexandra Daddario
In the final season of The Bachelor, Clayton Echard, the series' 26th lead, said after dating a budding wannabe, "If I ever need confirmation that this process is working, I'll see him act in first." Me."
But judging by the numbers, it's perhaps unsurprising that this "trial" - a week-long mass courtship in front of cameras that is expected to end with a proposal and presumably marriage - isn't very effective in building long-term relationships.
Since "The Bachelor" debuted on ABC in March 2002 and "The Bachelorette" the following year, only six couples who met on those shows are currently married. A seventh is due to marry in May. Meanwhile, there were 34 TV offerings out of a total of 44 seasons. If you include those who met on other spin-offs, the number of currently married couples jumps from six to ten. (Representatives for Warner Bros. and ABC declined to comment for this article.)
What to make of some of the most dramatic stories of these still-married couples as the franchise enters its 20th year? Below, five of the six who met on "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" share how they've come to terms since meeting on set. (The sixth couple, Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo, declined to comment for this article.)
Catherine and Sean Lowe
The Lowes met on the 17th season of The Bachelor, which aired in 2013 and ended with Mr Lowe proposing on camera in Thailand. They married the following year.
The couple, who live in Dallas with their two sons, aged 5 and 3, and daughter, 2, have since built a life around what Ms Lowe described as "super cool" family traditions, including the homemade pizza making.
"Our happy place is at home with our children," said Ms Lowe, 35, who runs a local gift service and founded a furniture line of the same name with her husband called Home by Sean & Catherine Lowe.
Mr Lowe, 38, said when people asked him how he found love on The Bachelor, his answer was always the same. "I liken it to meeting 25 strangers on a dating app; you could get in touch with any of them," he said.
But "then you have to get into the real world, and that takes work," he added.
Whether he and Ms Lowe, or any couple who married after meeting on the show, managed to stay together still seems unlikely to him. "When girls ride lawnmowers in bikinis, it's just silly," he said. "All the elements work against building a long-term relationship."
However, Ms Lowe said she left the show feeling wiser about how to create a successful partnership. The quick experience of courtesy made them realize the importance of focusing on the "non-negotiables" at the start of a romance, rather than worrying about "things that don't matter, like leaving the toilet seat open".
She added that meeting Mr. Lowe on set with other people around helped her understand his character better, and recalled a time when she saw him talking to the crew and "got noted that he knew everyone's name".
"I took that as an idea of who he really was when the cameras were off," Lowe said.
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