It wasn’t long ago when getting eliminated from The Bachelor or The Bachelorette meant the end of a contestant’s 15 minutes of fame.
Luckily, the franchise’s bastard child, or drunk cousin, or summer break – whatever you want to call Bachelor in Paradise – fixed that.
The show will be on its fourth run this summer, as castoffs from the two dating competitions reunite in the tropics for booze and hookups.
Hey, it’s a formula that works, and we are grateful for it.
Thanks to Nick Viall’s just-completed season of The Bachelor, the casting possibilities are better and more insane than ever in 2017.
Here are the guys and girls who NEED to appear.