If you can’t find love, get in the bobsled.
That’s the apparent message of The Bachelor Winter Games, the brand new competitive spin-off for the reality television juggernaut.
The show promises to pit twelve loveless cast-offs from the American Bachelor and Bachelorette series against 14 international contenders in a series of wintry challenges.
Among that number are Australians Courtney Dober, from Georgia Love’s season of The Bachelorette, and Tiffany Scanlon, who featured on Richie Strahan’s edition of The Bachelor.
Other notable competitors include Christian from the first season of the combined German and Swiss Bachelorette, who oughta win due to looking like the goddamn Ice King himself:
And Ben, from the 20th (!) American season of The Bachelor, for the exact opposite reason: he appears to have left his fly undone.
Across four episodes, those singles will mingle at a resort on the snowy Haystack Mountain in Vermont, and hopefully learn a thing or two about curling in the process.
Longtime Bachie host Chris Harrison will resume his duties.
Putting aside the fact “competing in the Winter Games” is actually an excellent euphemism for a harsh break-up, this could be the most promising Bachie-adjacent show in recent memory.
It premieres on American screens on February 13, but like the actual Olympics, you can expect to see us up in the middle of the night scrambling for a decent stream.
If you want to scope out all the competitors – and marvel at Americans realising their show has been franchised out worldwide – you can do so below:
