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The new season of ABC’s The Bachelor is currently in full swing and Colton Underwood is well on his way to finding love. The finale of this season will air on Monday, March 11.
Week 9 of the popular dating show will air on Monday, March 4, and the Women Tell All special will air on Tuesday, March 5.
Typically, there are about 13 episodes including the Women Tell All and the After The Final Rose specials. However, due to some unforeseen circumstances during Colton’s season, there was a bit of a shake-up which prohibited ABC from announcing the date of the finale earlier on.
Warning: The Bachelor spoilers ahead.
Some fans of The Bachelor have already read spoilers for the current season and know that Colton Underwood ends up with Cassie Randolph. However, things don’t end in typical Bachelor/ette fashion. There’s no actual finale stage set in which Colton will narrow it down to two women and propose to one, sending the other home devastated.
According to Reality Steve, this season of The Bachelor is going to end differently than what you’re used to. The final four women are Hannah Godwin, Caelynn Miller-Keyes, Tayshia Adams, and Cassie Randolph. After hometowns, Colton says goodbye to Caelynn.
In Portugal, Colton has his overnight date with Cassie and realizes that she’s the one for him.
“Colton never even went on his overnight date with Hannah. I’m sure she thought they were gonna go on one but at some point after his date with Cassie, he told Hannah that Cassie is the one he’s in love with, wanted to pursue, and sent Hannah home. He also told this to Tayshia. I’m not sure what order he did it in, but both Tayshia and Hannah were eliminated at this point because he wanted to pursue Cassie,” Reality Steve reports.
However, Cassie decides that she’s too young to be engaged and she supposedly leaves Colton in Portugal. Spoilers suggest that he ends up heading back to the States and finding Cassie. The two reconnect and are said to be dating — not engaged.
Because of the craziness, Reality Steve says that there simply “isn’t enough footage” to draw out several episodes past hometowns, so the schedule ended up looking like this:
Episode 8: Hometowns
Episode 9: Overnights
Episode 10: Women Tell All
Episode 11: Finale & After the Final Rose
Colton has admitted that his season on the show “wasn’t perfect.”
“This whole entire thing wasn’t always pretty. It wasn’t perfect. I wasn’t the perfect Bachelor. I made a lot of mistakes. It was hard, I knew it was going to be hard, I knew it was gonna push me and it was going to be emotionally draining at times, but it was going to be also rewarding at times. The ups and the downs are there, and that’s why I said — it’s real, raw, vulnerable. I did things much differently than any other Bachelor has ever done it,” Colton told E! News last month.
The Bachelor airs at 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC.