The Bachelorette (season 2)

The Bachelorette 2 is the second season of ABC reality television series The Bachelorette. The show premiered on January 14, 2004, featuring Meredith Phillips dating 25 men.

Phillips was rejected by Bob Guiney in the fourth season of The Bachelor, where she was the third runner-up. She ultimately chose Ian McKee, but they broke up in February 2005.

Contestants

Call-Out Order

Meredith Phillips

Meredith Phillips is a make-up artist, model, and former contestant on the fourth season of ABC's The Bachelor. After the show, she published Date Night Cookbook.

References

The Bachelorette

The Bachelorette is a spin-off from the American competitive reality dating game show The Bachelor. In its January 2003 debut on ABC, the first season featured Trista Rehn, the runner-up date from the first season of The Bachelor, offering the opportunity for Rehn to choose a husband among 25 bachelors. The 2004 season of The Bachelorette again took a runner-up from the previous season of The Bachelor. After last airing on February 28, 2005, the series returned to ABC during the spring of 2008, following an absence of three years.

Plot

All of the rules are adopted from its parent show, The Bachelor. The series revolves around a single bachelorette (deemed eligible) and a pool of romantic interests (typically 25; 30 in season 5), which could include a potential husband for the bachelorette. The format is the same as the parent show. Unlike The Bachelor, one of two male suitors proposes to the bachelorette for the final selection. The Bachelor does not, however, always propose at the end of the show. At the end of Juan Pablo's season, he decided to "choose" a girl to keep spending time with, but evidentially was not ready for a proposal. A proposal at the end of the show is not always guaranteed. It is up to the bachelor/bachelorette to decide that.

The Bachelorette (season 5)

The fifth season of the ABC reality television series The Bachelorette began on May 18, 2009 with a two-hour premiere. The show features Jillian Harris, an interior designer from Peace River, Alberta, Canada, courting 30 men, added from five in previous seasons. This was the first time in The Bachelor and The Bachelorette franchise with 30 suitors. Harris was rejected by Jason Mesnick in the thirteenth season of The Bachelor; she was the second runner-up.

Harris is the first non-American selected ever in The Bachelorette as she is from Canada. (Jesse Palmer, Matt Grant, and Lorenzo Borghese of The Bachelor alumni are the other non-Americans in the show's franchise), and chose Ed Swiderski in the finale. The couple were engaged but broke their engagement in July 2010.

Contestants

Future appearances

7th placer Jake Pavelka later chosen as the bachelor in the fourteenth season of The Bachelor, entitled On the Wings of Love. Pavelka later appeared in the tenth season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Chelsie Hightower and finished in 7th place. Runner-up Kiptyn Locke, along with other finalists Juan Barbieri, David Good, Wes Hayden and Jesse Kovacs were returned for the inaugural season of Bachelor Pad. They finished individually in 18th/19th, 12th/13th, 5th/6th, while Locke finished as runner-up with Bachelor Nation alumna Tenley Molzahn and Good finished as co-winner with Bachelor Nation alumna Natalie Getz. Pavelka returned again in the second season of Bachelor Pad with Michael Stagliano, Pavelka finished 13th and Stagliano won the competition with Bachelor Nation alumna Holly Durst. Stagliano would return again for the second time on the third season of Bachelor Pad with Ed Swiderski and Reid Rosenthal, where Stagliano finished 11th, Swiderski in 5th/6th, and Rosenthal in 15th/16th. Kovacs would again return in the inaugural season of Bachelor in Paradise and finished in 14th.