One of the most popular dating shows around, ‘The Bachelor’ has been in the news lately with Clayton Echard in the latest season looking for the most compatible life partner.
The show is themed around a guy swarmed by a pool of women competing to win his heart. Each season has around 12 episodes and the final contestant gets the marriage proposal.
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Lets look at the winners of each season and their relationship status.
| Season | The Bachelor | Winner | Relationship Status |
| March 25-April 25, 2002 | Alex Michel | Amanda Marsh | In the bachelor season 1, Michel didn’t propose to Amanda but followed a relationship. After several months of dating, they broke up. |
| September 25-November 20, 2002 | Aaron Buerge | Helene Eksterowicz | She was the first contestant to receive and accept the proposal, but the relationship ended after a week. |
| March 24-May 21, 2003 | Andrew Firestone | Jen Schefft | After several months of the season 3 finale, the couple called off their engagement. Jen married Joe Waterman in 2019 and has two children. |
| September 24-November 20, 2003 | Bob Guiney | Estella Gardinier | Instead of proposing Bob had given Estella a promise ring saying they could date, the couple broke up shortly after the show aired. |
| April 7- May 26, 2004 | Jesse Palmer | Jessica Bowlin | Palmer chooses not to propose Bowlin but continue dating. They broke up after several weeks of dating. |
| September 22-November 24, 2004 | Byron Velvick | Mary Dalgado | After accepting Byron’s proposals, the couple stayed together for years. Back in 2009 the couple broke up. |
| March 28- May 16 2005 | Charlie O’Connell | Sarah Brice | O’Connell didn’t propose to Sarah but started dating. However, they finally broke up in 2010. |
| January 9- February 27, 2006 | Travis Lane Stork | Sarah Stone | Stork didn’t propose to Stone but started dating her. However, they broke up after the show aired. |
| October 2- November 27, 2006 | Lorenzon Borghese | Jennifer Wilson | Borghese didn’t propose to Wilson, instead, they dated but broke up in 2007. Later, he dated Murray, the runner-up of The bachelor, and again broke up in March in the same year. |
| 2007 | Andrew Baldwin | Tessa Horst | The couple called off their engagement one month after the finale. |
| 2008 | Matt Grant | Shayne Lamas | The couple broke up in July 2008. |
| 2009 | Jason Mesnick | Melissa Rycroft | On the season finale, Mesnick called off the engagement with Rycroft and started dating runner-up Malaney. |
| 2010 | Jake Pavelka | Vienna Girardi | Couple ended their relationship in June 2010 |
| 2011 | Brad Womack | Emily Maynard | Womack and Maynard split up during their season but rekindled their relationship after the show ended. The pair, however, divorced in 2011. |
| 2012 | Ben Flajnik | Courtney Robertson | The couple broke up in 2012. |
| 2013 | Sean Lowe | Catherine Giudici | They are still together with two sons and a daughter. |
| 2014 | Juan Pablo Galavis | Nikki Ferell | Galavis didn’t propose to Nikki, instead, they started dating, but they broke up in October 2014. |
| 2015 | Chris Soules | Whitney Bischoff | The couple is no more together and broke up later on May 28, 2015 |
| 2016 | Ben Higgins | Lauren Bushnell | Lauren and Ben Higgins announced their engagement on the season 20 Bachelor finale and went to start their spin-off, Ben-Lauren: Happily Ever After? However, the duo parted ways in 2017. |
| 2017 | Nick Viall | Vanessa Grimaldi | Nick proposed to Vanessa in 2017 during the finale of season 21 of The Bachelor. Well! In August 2017, the duo parted their ways. |
| 2018 | Arie Luyendyk | Becca Kufrin | Luyendyk called off his engagement with Kufrin and dated runner-up Burnham on the season finale. The duo got engaged during the After the Final Rose special and got married on January 12, 2019, and the couple is living a happily married life with three children. |
| 2019 | Colton Underwood | Cassie Randolph | In the final three seasons, Randolph broke with Underwood. But, after breaking up, Underwood broke up with the other two women and asked Randolph to give him a second chance. Later they dated for some time and then again broke up on May 29, 2020. |
| 2020 | Peter Weber | Hannah Ann Sluss | In the After The Final Rose special episode, weber and Sluss parted their ways by calling off their engagement. |
| 2021 | Matt James | Rachael Kirkconnell | James didn’t propose to Kirkconnell but started dating each other. However, in the After The Final Rose special episode, it was confirmed that both of them parted ways. |
| 2022 | Clayton Echard | TBA | TBA |
The Bachelor 2022 Winner
The winner for The Bachelor 2022 has not been confirmed yet, but a report by Reality Steve highlights the below,
- Susie Evans, a wedding videographer from Virginia Beach, who is 28 years old
- Rachel Recchia, a flight instructor from Clermont, Florida, 25 years old
- Gabby Windey, is a 30-year old ICU nurse from Denver, Colorado.
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However, the Reddit post suspects either Susie or Rachel as the winner because both follow Cary Fatman, the costume designer for the last two contestants for the Final Rose Ceremony.
For the final winner’s name, you have to wait for the final episode of The Bachelor, 2022.
Stay tuned for more updates of the Bachelor, 2022!