‘Bachelor’ Senior Spinoff, ‘BiP’ Season 9 Confirmed by ABC

Buckle up, Bachelor Nation! ABC introduced a brand new The Bachelor spinoff centered round senior singles in search of will air this fall.

Titled The Golden Bachelor, the collection will showcase “a whole new kind of love story — one for the golden years,” based on the community’s press launch shares with Us Weekly on Tuesday, May 16. “One hopeless romantic is given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life.”

Just just like the present’s main man — who has but to be introduced — The Golden Bachelor’s contestants are able to discover a “spark that ignited a future full of endless possibilities,” the outline continues. “In the end, will our Golden man turn the page to start a new chapter with the woman of his dreams?”

News of the collection might not come as a shock to viewers of The Bachelor franchise. Many current episodes of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette have featured casting requires older romantic hopefuls to use for an untitled senior spinoff. Though the present comes as one among ABC’s 2023 fall TV lineup bulletins, the precise premiere date has not been revealed.

Bachelor in Paradise may even return this fall for its ninth season. A brand new batch of Bachelor Nation fan-favorite contestants will head to the Playa Escondida seashore resort in Sayulita, Mexico, with the hopes of discovering the romance they didn’t get on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. Jesse Palmer will return for his second season as host.

Season 8 of Paradise ended with two {couples} getting engaged — Victoria Fuller and Johnny DePhillipo and Brandon Jones and Serene Russell. While the season was airing on TV, Victoria, 29, was noticed hanging out with Bachelorette alum Greg Grippo, leaving followers to query her future with Johnny, 26.

They known as it quits not lengthy after filming concluded as Johnny accused his former fiancée of dishonest together with her now-boyfriend, Greg, 27, through the present’s season 8 finale. “It sucked, for sure. It just kind of made me believe that anything she said didn’t hold weight anymore, and I had my suspicions and I kind of thought that there was always something going on,” Johnny completely advised Us in November 2022. “And then it just makes you think, ‘When did it start?’ It’s a weird feeling.”

Despite being one of many strongest {couples} on the seashore, Brandon, 26, and Serene, 27, have additionally damaged issues off. “After many months, today we have ultimately decided to end our engagement,” the pair wrote through a joint Instagram publish on May 8. “We have tried to work privately on our relationship which has been extremely difficult within the public eye.

The assertion continued: “This has been immensely hard to accept and painful, a there is a lot of love between the two of us. We are deeply hurting and can only ask that there be no hate. The best path for us at this time is to try and move forward and heal from this as individuals.”

Their breakup announcement got here a number of months after they advised Us that they deliberate to tie the knot in 2024. “We’re thinking about, like, time of year and all of that,” Serene stated in November 2022. “But we’re still in the stages of being super excited for where we’re at.”

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The return of scripted applications on ABC’s fall schedule are TBD as the author’s strike continues.