DCBLOG: DC ExtraTime: Babies in Bachelor Land with Bad Chad

Saturday, August 10, 2019

DC ExtraTime: Babies in Bachelor Land with Bad Chad

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BY DC CUEVA

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For anyone who identifies themselves as part of Bachelor Nation - this blogger's family included, it's safe to say that 2019 has been quite a year in watching the most well-known of all the romantic reality TV franchises... a subgenre that has now become a rapidly growing stock in the entertainment business thanks to all the shows of love and romance dominating our screens.
It began in the winter with the 23rd season of The Bachelor starring Colton Underwood, marked by the now famous moment of him jumping the fence of his Portuguese countryside house and running for his life after a date with the eventual winner, L.A. teacher Cassie Randolph. It continued with the 15th renewal of The Bachelorette with Hannah Brown, the tabloid story that saw her turn from Jed to Tyler, and the news that's broke in since last week's "Someone You Should Know" on some of its most notable alumni when word came of Tyler bolting from a scheduled court appearance back home in Florida to date one of the world's most beautiful models & a boy bander's ex, Gigi Hadid.

Bachelor in Paradise 4 cast (ABC)

This week, the annual trilogy of Monday night love on the American Broadcasting Company comes to an end with the ninth installment of The Bachelor franchise's summer spin-off series as Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants get another chance at love after getting eliminated from their original show. After three seasons of Bachelor Pad earlier in this decade, Bachelor in Paradise began in 2014 and follows along the lines of its predecessor in featuring rejected suitors in a tropical destination... a fitting way for the nine months of romance to end before giving way to Dancing with the Stars.
While Pad was essentially a summer version of The Bachelor Winter Games with challenges and a cash prize given to its winners, BIP has the feel of a traditional Bachelor season with the trademark rose ceremonies, dates and the like. Some key differences include that there's no singular star for everyone else to focus themselves on in this co-ed house, elimination procedures rotate between men and women following the first week's rose ceremonies when two suitors who don't pair up get dumped, and two new people arrive on the beach each week, Ex On The Beach style.

Bachelor in Paradise 6 cast (ABC)

BIP Season 6 began on Monday & Tuesday with twenty rejects getting another shot at love and a rose, including those like Hannah Godwin, Cam Ayala, Caelynn Miller-Keyes, Clay Harbor, Blake Horstmann and Wills Reid -- most of whom joined MTV alum Chase McNary to rewatch themselves again at Bachelor watch parties at his bar in Denver. On TV, we saw Blake go on a quest for love with Hannah, Caelynn and Tayshia Adams; Clay living with his exes, and Demi Burnett reveal that she has a girlfriend - the first same-sex relationship to be explored on the Bachelor franchise. And that's just the first two episodes, with plenty of fireworks to come including conflict of the verbal and physical variety... just your ordinary reality TV love fest.
If this 2019 edition of BIP promises to be the perfect end to this drama-filled year in Bachelor Nation, than they always save the best for last. But fans of this franchise also know about the 2017 summer in Paradise that was marred by the soap opera of Corinne Olympios and Demario Jackson's fling that got a bit too up close and personal, and saw everyone in Disney hierarchy panic like those dalmatians when they heard Cruella De Vil was at the door. But that fourth season of BIP isn't alone when it comes to sparking a bit of controversy to get everyone talking and viewers tuning in thanks to some good publicity from all the online fodder.

Three years ago, Chad Johnson became 2016's recipient of the award of "Bachelor Contestant You'd Love to Hate." After what went down on his original Bachelorette season with Jojo Fletcher with that memorable one-month stint in the Villa de La Vina, then no one was expecting what would go down on BIP 4, which added more to laying claim to being one of the year's biggest reality villains, all while a guy from the O.C. was busy pickpocketing his partner on an Argentinean mountaintop.
Chad moved into the house appearing to had plenty to drink on the plane ride down south and picked up where he left off in California with confronting castmates, threatening hotel employees and everything that's NSFW. But it was his outburst at partially-handicapped contestant Sarah Herron (who only has half of her right arm) drew ire from the social sphere, and it led to host Chris Harrison to take him aside. And it was the confrontation between the host and him that saw Chad go home, with the host adding that his exit was the outcome everyone behind the scenes wanted.
That is only part of the story of the man they call "Bad Chad" -- stints on Famously Single with a pre-daddy Ronnie, the Celeb Big Brother UK house, and his time on Ex On The Beach that included that relationship with Challenge Nicole Ramos. But since so much of what has happened to Chad from when he first appeared on our screens is of the kind of moments that would make us cringe, it would not be right for us to spotlight at least one moment of lightheartedness that is as bright as that photo of him above. That would come a year after Hurricane Chad came on shore not once, but twice.

In late summer of 2017 - during the chaos that was Bachelor in Paradise 4, Jimmy Kimmel Live and its host took advantage of what was going on in Mexico to do their own take on the summer's hottest romantic reality show, and perhaps poke a little bit of fun amidst what was almost the final straw for BIP. But there was a twist to all this in the late night talker's parodies of all things Bachelor: instead of hot girls and guys who got rejected on national TV, the stars of JKL's Bachelor in Paradise would be adorable 3- and 4-year-old toddlers who are more at home watching Mickey Mouse and would be fast asleep while mommy and daddy are watching drunken drama at the start of the work week.
The third episode of Baby Bachelor in Paradise, which aired on the Sept. 5, 2017 installment of Kimmel, saw none other than Chad come walking into the Bachelor pad with tykes all over him. At first, he says that getting another chance to get a rose and find love would be a good thing... but it's when he finds himself in the company of pre-kindergarteners that he knows that getting to babysit the kids will be a challenge in itself... especially with one of them splashing water at him in the kid-sized pool in the backyard.

Below are this kid-friendly episodes of "Babies in Bachelor Land" with Bad Chad... perfect for laughs after a summertime pool session with the Bachelor, Bachelorette and suitors in waiting. And maybe after you see these videos, can we rename this guest babysitter... Dad Chad?