Producers of ABC’s
The Bachelor are looking for next season’s group of bachelorettes as well as the next Bachelor. Open casting calls are being held May 6 in Los Angeles, as well as in Chicago on May 18 and 19, in Atlanta May 19, in Nashville May 19 and 22, in New York City on May 19 and 20, and in Austin, TX on May 20.
Next season of
The Bachelor will be “shooting out of the country,” at least according to the bachelorettes application form, and the rules say applicants need a passport and the ability to travel to Europe. Any guesses?
I always enjoy reading the eligibility requirements and applications for these shows, as they seem to imply much more exciting shows than actually happen. Here, I’ve saved you the trouble of reading through them by picking out my favourite bits fro
The Bachelor's
rules:
“Applicants must be willing and able to participate in physical activities such as: skydiving, snow skiing, ice skating, parasailing, water skiing, rollerblading, and the like.” Does swimming without getting your hair wet count?
In addition there’s apparently an extremely thorough background check, included but not limited to “a credit check, a military records check, a criminal arrest and/or conviction check, a civil litigation check, a family court litigation check, interviews with employers, neighbors, teachers, etc.” Semi-finalists on
The Bachelor “may” be required to undergo psychological testing. What, to make sure they get enough crazies who will break down in tears twice an episode?
Other entertaining bits from the rules:
“Each applicant acknowledges, understands and agrees that he or she, if chosen as a bachelor or bachelorette on the Program, may be audio and/or video taped twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week while participating in the Program by means of open and hidden cameras, whether or not he or she is then aware that he or she is being videotaped or recorded … such Recordings may be disseminated on television and/or all media now known or hereafter devised, in any and all manner throughout the Universe in perpetuity.”
Really? Throughout the universe? Forever? I didn’t know ABC and Warner Brothers had such intergalactic coverage.
Hey, did you know you can get a $5000 “finder’s fee” if you nominate someone to be the next Bachelor and they pick him? And here I thought
Andy Baldwin’s pals just wanted him to find true love.
-Mel, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: ABC/Warner Brothers
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