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THE BACHELOR -“Episode 2108” – Corinne, Rachel, Raven and Vanessa are left in Bimini, still shocked that Nick sent Kristina home before the rose ceremony. They wonder if they still will get a coveted hometown date from the unpredictable Bachelor. But with the stakes being so high, Nick will go on an emotionally charged journey to visit these final four women’s hometowns. Raven meets him in Hoxie, Arkansas, and cute couple have some great, sexy fun, but Raven’s father reveals some serious news. Then, it is on to Dallas where Rachel and Nick confront the challenges that might meet an interracial couple. Corinne is waiting in Miami where her father waits with some tough questions. Finally, Nick travels to Montreal to reunite with Vanessa. Although her special needs adult students give him a big thumbs up, things don’t go quite so well with her big Italian family, especially after her father drops a bomb about Nick that has Vanessa questioning their relationship. Just as Nick gets ready to make the gut-wrenching decision to send one woman home, he gets a surprise visitor, who could change everything, on “The Bachelor,” MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EST), on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Phillippe Bosse)VANESSA /

12. Contestants Get To Cheat To Remember All Those Names

It’s an impossible task to remember all those names on the first night – or even in those first few days. Bachelors and bachelorettes meet over 20 potential love interests at a time, and then they’re expected to remember all their names at the end of the night. There’s no way they can pull it off without a little behind the scenes help.

Ali Fedotowsky reveals how they do it. She dishes, “For the rose ceremony, we’d announce five names at a time. Then I’d leave, production would re-set the lighting, and I’d say the next five names. Then everything would be edited together. For group dates, like the first group date where there were 12 guys, I didn’t always remember the names. If I had to, I’d pull aside the main producer, Cassie, when it wasn’t obvious and ask.”

Sometimes producers resort to other kinds of tricks. Ali wrote in her blog, “Throughout the night a producer is never far from your side and constantly reminds you about everyone’s name. She (the producer) has flash cards with the pictures and names of every contestant. It is hard to remember everyone, even with the flash cards. It’s all so overwhelming.”

These sorts of tricks are a necessary evil. Otherwise we’d be forced to watch some really embarrassing moments. In the early days, they didn’t offer this kind of help, and as a result bachelor Jesse Palmer accidentally said the wrong name.

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