Jillian Harris

The season that opened the passport. An interior designer from British Columbia becomes the franchise's first Canadian lead, the producers expand the cast to thirty men, and the calendar stretches to twelve episodes with travel dates that finally take the format overseas. The casting reads broader and warmer than the early run, the international stops do real editorial work, and the production scale clears a bar the show had circled. The season the modern Bachelorette starts to look like itself.