When Jake and Vienna Break Up, The Bachelor and Bachelorette Win
The Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise—now in its 20th season—came back from near-death when the show's cast became tabloid celebrities. Joyce Tang examines its unlikely resurgence.
Audiences cringed last season when square-jawed pilot Jake Pavelka proposed to villainesse bachelorette and ex-Hooter's waitress Vienna Girardi on the final episode of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love.
