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Aired spring 2005 · Filmed partly aboard the Queen Mary

Charlie O'Connell

The franchise's first explicit celebrity play — an actor with a famous older brother, a Hollywood last name, and dates that move off the Agoura Hills compound and onto the Queen Mary in Long Beach. The casting matches the pitch, with women reading more LA than Midwestern. The novelty wears thin, and the season feels caught between the buttoned-up early run and the international travelogue that would follow it. Useful as a transitional document; less rewarding as standalone rewatch.

Filmed
Long Beach, California
Premiered
Apr 4, 2005
Episodes
6
Format
25 women · first celebrity-adjacent lead
the franchise leans into Hollywood
Host
Chris Harrison
On this page
  1. 01The take
  2. 03Where it sits in the canon
  3. 05Adjacent in the canon
  4. 06Also appears in
01The take

Charlie O'Connell.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #23 slot.

Slot #23 of 28 in the The Bachelor Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.

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06Also appears in

Cross-references.

The Bachelor S7 — Charlie O'Connell — tiered.tv