The Bachelor‘s Spawn: Reality TV’s Vaudeville Circuit

“Since [2002], the Bachelor franchise, which features 26 fresh characters every season, has become a rigorous farm team for a modern-day vaudeville circuit that features hundreds of reality-show vets … [N]early all of the Bachelor alumni try to extend the characters they developed in concert with ABC’s producers to do commercials, paid appearances and, of course, other reality shows.”