Bachelor In Paradise Premiere

 The Bachelor may have just won my attention back after tonight’s Bachelor in Paradise premiere.  I had lost interest after Juan Pablo’s season and tried to get into Andi’s but just couldn’t decided if it was worth my time. Needless to say though, after tonight’s episode, I’ll be sitting in front of the tv on Monday’s nights with my glass of wine cheering for these crazy people looking for love once again.

Bachelor in Paradise is a spinoff of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette where the biggest stars and most controversial contestants off the show get a second chance at love as they explore new relationships in Mexico.  They all left “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” with broken hearts, but now they are back to find their soul mates. The show began tonight begins with 13 former cast members, seven women and six men, who travel to beautiful Tulum, Mexico hoping to turn a potential summer fling into the real thing. However, in true “Bachelor” fashion, there is always a surprise.

On tonight’s episode looking for love a second time around, the “Bachelor in Paradise” cast arrives in gorgeous Tulum, Mexico ready to mingle. Welcomed by Chris Harrison, they quickly get to know each other at a Bachelor-style arrival party located on the beautiful white sandy beach of their private oasis. One by one, all the women and men showed up and introduced each other. But Ben arrives, no one is happy to see him, and nobody greets him. Finally Lacy Faddoul offers him a drink. Marcus knows that Ben is a “bad boy” and he doubts he is there for the right reasons. Next Michelle Kujawa arrives, and her greeting isn’t exactly warm either. Robert arrives next, followed by Dylan Pettit. Elise Mosca is the next girl to arrive. Elise barely says hello to everyone before she is convinced that she is in love with Dylan. Ashlee Frazier is the last girl to arrive, and is thrilled to see Graham since she joined the show just to meet him. Shortly after the party gets going, Chris Harrison interrupts to explain the rules of paradise, including one shocking detail – at the end of each week, anyone who is not in a romantic relationship will be sent home — this week the men will hand out a rose to someone they’d like to spend more time getting to know. The women who do not receive roses will leave paradise forever. With that, the anxiety amongst the women immediately intensifies as they begin to evaluate the eligible men.

It’s important now that you know the cast before you read the rest of the recap :)

Clare Crawley (Juan Pablo’s season), This “friendly” hairstylist went home on the last episode on JP’s season, but had made a name for herself before the finale by giving her lady flowers to JP in the ocean while other girls were sleeping near by. She is back on this show, but seems less slutty this time. She did make it clear that she didn’t want to leave her “Clareadise” at the first rose ceremony though.

AshLee Frazier ( Sean’s Season) This professional organizer was the very emotion girl who revealed her love for Sean very early on his season. Her crazy fast love affairs seem to follow her onto this show, and so does her crazy personality.

Sarah Herron (Sean Lowe’s season),  She was the girl born with one arm that won over America quickly. She scored the first one on one date with Sean and is ready to be brave on this show and go after what she wants.

Elise Mosca (Juan Pablo’s Season) This sweet teacher was sent home after refusing to pose nude during a charity photo shoot for dogs. We all remember her as the poor girl who had to wear that fire hydrant costume.

 

Dylan Petitt (Andi’s Season) He was sent home just shy of a hometown date with Andi last season, but isn’t being shy this time! He is ready to get his girl!

Ben S. (Desiree’s season) The single dad caught Desiree’s attention and America’s on night one by bringing his adorable son along in the limo. He didn’t get along with the other cast mates and many labeled his on the bad boy that season. According to ABC, “Ben is looking to rehab his image and meet someone who sees the real him.”

Robert Graham (Desiree’s Season) This baby face didn’t find love with Desiree, but he is quickly make friends in Paradise. I doubt he will be going home alone from this show.

 Graham Bunn (DeAnna’s season), The pro basketball player was sent home on DeAnna’s season leaving her in tears because he never opened up to her. He later hit things off with Michelle Money on The Bachelor Pad. He has all the women’s attention on this show from day 1, but he got “wifed” up quickly by a certain crazy one.

Marcus Grodd (Andi’s season), We all know gorgeous Marcus after just seeing him strip twice for Andi on this past season’s show. Unfortunately, he left broken hearted and starts this show with his guard up.

 

Marquel Martin (Andi’s season), He had Andi’s attention for a while on her season, but ended up being sent home. He was definitely a fan favorite though with his gorgeous smile and good looks.

Daniella McBride (Sean’s season), I don’t even remember this girl but she made it to episode 6 of her season. She certainly made a name for herself with the audience tonight with her whitty comments to the camera.

Lacy Faddoul (Juan Pablo’s),  No one knows Lacy because she was sent home night one! That didn’t matter for the guys on this show though, because she immediately caught everyone’s attention.

Michelle K (Jake’s Season) was label the crazy person after she repeatedly demanded attention and kept threatening to leave. Jake finally sent her home after she begged him to kiss her. She was on the bachelor pad, but didn’t find love there either.

So right away, Lacy grabs Robert they head out to the ocean and she wraps her legs around him. All the other girls are shocked by how aggressive she is being. Later everyone sits down for dinner and Marcus heads out swim in the ocean by himself, he still isn’t over Andi Dorfman, and isn’t ready to party with everyone else.

When Lacy sees Marcus in the water, she runs out to join him. Sarah Herron thinks that Lacy is being trashy going in to the ocean with more than two guys in one night. Robert jokes that Marcus is stealing his girl. After Lacy is done swimming with Marcus, Robert steals her back and they sit on the beach together. Meanwhile Clare and Marcus sit on the beach and watch Elise and Dylan make out in the ocean.

Day 2 arrives and AshLee scores some quality time with Graham and they head down to the beach. She confesses to him that the only reason she came was so that she will see him, and he is shocked since they never met before. The first date card arrives and it is for Clare. She runs down to the beach and invites Graham to go to the ruins with her. Graham accepts her invitation and says he is “pumped.” AshLee bursts into tears and runs upstairs crying, devastated that Graham accepted Clare’s invitation. Sarah and Daniella think that AshLee is certifiably crazy because she is so upset over Graham and hasn’t even known him for 24 hours. Clare heads outside when she sees AshLee crying and sits down on some stairs and frantically fusses about drama and fire ants to the raccoon near by.

Clare heads back to the house and sits down with AshLee and asks her why she is so upset. Clare insists that she had no idea AshLee liked Graham and offers to take someone else to the ruins on the date. Clare heads outside and tells Graham that she can’t take him and then invites Rob on the date with her instead.

Clare and Rob head to the Mayan Ruins, and begin trying to scale the wall. Graham walks through a fire ants’ nest and is covered in hundreds of ants. After he strips his shirt off they head up to the top and take pictures of themselves standing on the cliffs. Afterwards they head down to the beach and decide to go for a dip in the ocean.

Later that night Lacy has a meltdown because both of the guys she is interested in have been spending time with other girls. She heads down to the beach with Rob, and he reassures her that while he was on a date with Clare he didn’t even kiss her and he is still interested in Lacy. While they are on the beach the rest of the house is shocked when a new houseguest arrives, Michelle Money. Daniella is automatically upset because she realizes that two women are going to go home instead of one. Michelle announces that she has a date card, and then says that she needs to talk to Graham in private.

Michelle and Graham head down to the beach, to discuss what happened between them on Bachelor Pad. They do their stupid secret handshake and spend some time getting reacquainted with each other. The next morning Michelle contemplates who she will take on a date with her. AshLee heads to the beach to talk to Graham, she knows that if he doesn’t give her a rose, none of the other guys will.

Michelle Money takes her date card down to the beach and asks Marquel to join her. He happily accepts. They head out on their date and are surprised with horseback riding on the beach. Marquel has never ridden on a horse before, and is off to a bumpy start. After a while they take a break and go for a dip in the ocean together.

During the night’s cocktail ceremony, the men all kept it cool since they were handing out the roses, while the women ran around crazy trying to get the men to promise them a rose. Michelle K surprised everyone by leaving during the rose ceremony by choice, and then said maybe she had already found love to the cameras in the car on her way home... 

Marquel's rose went to Michelle Monies, Graham's rose went to AshLee, Dylan's rose went to Elise, Marcus gave his rose to Lacy, Robert's rose went to Clare, and Ben's rose went to Sara sending Daniella home.