‘The Bachelor’ 2020 Episode 9 Live Spoilers & Recap

Bachelor Peter Weber

ABC

It’s time to head to a land Down Under on The Bachelor, as Peter Weber is taking his final three ladies to Gold Coast, Australia for the Fantasy Suite dates. The remaining women are Victoria Fuller, Madison Prewett, and Hannah Ann Sluss, and it sounds like they are bringing plenty of drama to the final few episodes.

If you recall from last week’s cliffhanger, Madison is about to tell Peter that she’s still a virgin. The previews also make it seem like she gives him an ultimatum of sorts — basically, she tells him that she might have trouble continuing on with the show if he sleeps with the other women during their dates.

How will Peter handle that? It should be interesting, that’s for sure, especially because for the first time ever, the show is having the women all stay in the same hotel suite. It’s kind of astounding the producers never thought to do that before now, honestly.

For all the juicy drama, follow along here with our live recap and elimination spoilers. All times Eastern.


8:05 — Madison and Peter go off to speak privately before they all head for Australia. It is really, really hard for her to talk to Peter about this. But she finally just gets really honest with him about how hard it would be for her to move forward with him if he sleeps with one of the other girls next week. Peter’s response? “So what are you, like, saying?” Um, Peter? It seems pretty clear what she’s saying. Don’t play dumb. You’re better than that.

8:07 — He keeps pushing and keeps saying, “Just so I can be clear.” It feels like he’s trying to get her to go back on what she said without coming out and saying that. It’s almost like he should just tell her right here that he’s probably going to sleep with the other girls because it very much feels like he already knows he is.

8:10 — Also, he then gives a private interview where he says Madison hasn’t made it clear how she feels about him like the other two women have. But that feels like a little bit like him covering his butt for when he sleeps with the other women later. Like, “well, they made it clear they love me, so it’s OK.” Also, if Madison were the top choice right now, I’d like to think that Peter would agree to her terms, so it makes me think she’s not his top choice. #MadisonforNextBachelorette.

8:15 — In case you missed it, for the first time ever, the three finalists are staying in the same suite together. First off, it feels like they are hoping to get some kind of fireworks surrounding who does and doesn’t sleep with Peter. But secondly, how have they gone 23 seasons of this and 15 seasons of The Bachelorette and not done this before?! This feels like the only choice for this point in the competition for maximum drama.

8:18 — It’s super funny how Madison and Hannah Ann are like, “Hey girl! How are you?! You look great, I missed you so much!” and then Victoria gets there and it’s like:

8:27 — Hannah Ann gets the first Fantasy Suite date. They start off with some jet skiing, then on the beach they talk about how right they feel together and then they make out a lot. It increasingly feels like Hannah Ann is going to win Peter’s heart.

8:30 — Meanwhile, back at the suite, Victoria wants to know what Madison talked to Peter about after the last rose ceremony. Madison is pretty vague because obviously, she’s not as close to Victoria as she has been with some of the other girls, but Victoria knows what’s up because she says she thinks it’s super important for Peter to spend the night with each of the women. Well, “spending the night” is not exactly the same thing as having sex with them.

8:38 — That night, Hannah Ann and Peter have dinner and reiterate that they are falling in love with each other. Then Hannah Ann really makes it a point to say that she doesn’t care what he does with the other women as long as they’re together in the end. Ahhh, sneaky. That was a very subtle way to really make yourself stand out, Hannah Ann. Well played. Obviously, they go to the Fantasy Suite.

8:40 — Their suite is one of the nicest ones I’ve ever seen on this show. That balcony hot tub is amazing, where do I get one of those? Anyway, they move “inside” and Hannah Ann is the one who Peter presses up against the translucent door.

8:47 — Victoria’s date is second because the producers are actively trying to kill Madison. Also, stop talking about the strong feelings you have for Victoria, Peter. This relationship is a dumpster fire. Just admit she’s still in it either because A) the producers are making you keep her around for maximum drama, or B) you really want to sleep with her because, despite all the insanity, you still find her hot. Just be honest with us, Weber.

8:53 — They rehash her hometown date and they joke about how so far they haven’t had a fight, which — if that is the bar you need to clear, run. Run away, Peter. Also, the lack of chemistry with these two is palpable.

8:55 — Meanwhile, back at the hotel suite, Madison tells Hannah Ann about what she told Peter and privately, Hannah Ann calls it “madness” that Madison would let what Peter does with other women influence how she feels about him because they all “knew what [they] signed up for.” Hmm. I agree that they knew what they signed up for, but I also think if you get that far and the feelings are as strong as everyone claims they are, Madison is perfectly within her right to be honest with Peter about how him sleeping with other women will make her feel and then Peter is within his right to take that or leave that. Like I said, if Madison was the frontrunner, I think he would respect her wishes and then the show would have the narrative of, “Oh, Peter is so amazing because look at the sex he gave up for Madison!” But instead, the show is enlisting the other two girls to help make Madison look like a crazy, unreasonable woman and I don’t appreciate that.

9:00 — Back on Victoria’s date, it becomes painfully obvious why some men and women are attracted to self-destructive, drama queens and kings because these two are SOOOOOO BORING when they’re not fighting. Oooh, and then Peter even admits that he doesn’t want a relationship to be 100 percent easy all the time. Oh, dude. You have no idea. Do not fall into the drama queen trap.

9:07 — They choose to use the Fantasy Suite, of course, because the physical stuff is like 80 percent of their entire relationship. In a private interview, Victoria gets choked up as she says, “It’s a good feeling to be happy.” Oh, girl. You gotta work on yourself and then find a functional relationship. There’s no way you’re ending up with Peter, but you can still be a good person and find a good partner!

9:15 — You know what I’ve always wondered that we will probably never know the answer to? Has any bachelor or bachelorette gone into the Fantasy Suite dates with one frontrunner and then the sex was so good with someone else that the frontrunner changed? I wonder that all the time.

9:25 — Madison’s date is finally here and at least they decide to go have some fun before getting to the super emotional stuff. So it’s time to rappel off the side of a skyscraper! That’ll take their minds off the sex stuff!

9:27 — As they do all this, Madison realizes she’s in love with Peter and can see him as the father of her kids. Well, probably not after he tells you he slept with two other girls while you were dating, I suspect.

9:30 — Back at the hotel, Victoria gets the full scoop from Hannah Ann about Madison and Victoria acts all outraged about how unfair it is of Madison to do that. Actually, it’s not. Not if that’s how she truly feels. Also, she didn’t give him an ultimatum. She simply expressed her feelings that it might be hard for her to continue knowing he slept with two other women while dating her. That’s honestly not unreasonable because then it is up to Peter to do with that what he will. If he decides to move ahead with sleeping with other women, then the ball is back in Madison’s court. But they are adults who are free to say and do what they want as long as they are being respectful. Signing up for The Bachelor doesn’t mean you have to go along with every single part about it without expressing an opinion about how it makes you feel. Also, stop with this whole “Madison as villain” narrative.

9:42 — That night, Peter is honest with Madison about how he was intimate with the other women and she is honest with him about saving herself for marriage. She tells him she doesn’t expect him to be just like her, but she wants to be honest about her expectations for herself and for him. And her expectations for him are that she can’t really move forward if he slept with the other women. She lays it all out by saying if he’s down on one knee in a week’s time and yet six days ago, he slept with someone else? She’s right, that’s screwed up, but that is the nature of this show. Doesn’t mean Madison’s feelings aren’t valid or that she can’t decide to quit or whatever, but yeah, that’s how the show generally works. This show is kind of gross in that regard.

9:45 — Madison walks off to get some air and honestly, if this is that important to her, she should just walk away. Because this just showed her how she falls in Peter’s hierarchy. She is not his No. 1 or the Fantasy Suite dates would have gone differently, I feel.

9:53 — In a private interview, Madison says exactly that. She made it clear that if he did some certain things, he could lose her and he prioritized the other women over her. So that’s your answer about where you stand, Maddie.

8:55 — Peter goes to find Madison and he’s crying and apologizing, but like — you kind of made your choice, dude. She basically told you how this was going to go and you are a grown-up who made his own decisions. These are now the consequences.

8:58 — Madison says she doesn’t want to walk away, but she’s having trouble reconciling her beliefs with her feelings for him. Peter says he’s not perfect and begs her to stay and apologizes for hurting her, but… Peter. C’mon. No, you’re not perfect, but she told you what you had to do (or not do), so don’t say “I’m not perfect” like this was an accident. You made your choices and you just gave Madison a big heads up about how important she is to you.


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