DC ExtraTime: Someone You Should Know - Bachelor Nation's John Paul Jones

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The wintertime means one thing to this blogger's parents: spending a couple hours on Monday nights watching the start of the annual trilogy of Bachelor Nation. Two weeks ago post champagne-gate, my mom & dad and those who are reality nuts got to enjoy a staple of everyone's slumber parties being brought to a whole new level when pillow wrestling appeared on The Bachelor, and it was called by none other than Fred Willard and Chris Harrison a week after the former left Modern Family. And this past week, Cleveland hosted "The Bachelor Bowl" while Victoria Fuller revealed to star Peter Weber than country crooner Chase Rice is an ex boyfriend of hers.

It is that time of year again for those who are part of the granddaddy of all romantic reality TV series to begin the week... same goes for those at the Revel Social bar in Denver, CO to hold its weekly viewing parties of The Bachelor. Similar scenes will be repeated for The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise and the new music-themed spinoff Listen to Your Heart at where Chase McNary from JoJo Fletcher's now-renowned 2016 Bachelorette class works at after taking sojourns to MTV (where three other suitors from his season followed in his footsteps to both Ex On The Beach and to Siesta Key), and then last year returned to familiar surroundings on Bachelor in Paradise.

What makes Chase's Bachelor Nation viewing parties the happening in town for those in the Mile High City obsessed with the show is that of alumni and current castmates from the ABC franchise join him weekly as special guests of honor to watch roses, romance and rosé with fans. The most recent guest of his to Revel Social is our latest Someone You Should Know subject... one who was with him in Mexico last summer, and is probably the only alum of his show where people must refer to him by his full name, which also happens to be a historical namesake.