We continued where we last left off at what originally seemed like quite the cliffhanger. After she regretted telling Chris about her late husband, Kelsey’s “panic attack” stunt emitted sympathetic attention, the elixir that seems to be keeping more than one of these ladies in the running for another week — yeah, I’m looking at you, Ashley I. Chris bit the bait, but had no idea what was coming for him on the other end of that line.
Mackenzie and Samantha were eliminated in the rose ceremony, as Kelsey stayed off the chopping block for another week and audiences at home were left with steam coming out of their ears.
The week 6 dating roundup took Chris and the final nine women to Deadwood, (after we all Googled it) South Dakota. Becca, who nobody was aware existed two weeks ago and who has also not yet shared a kiss with Chris, had the one-on-one date. A walk in Black Hills National Forest, horseback ride and a crackling fire could barely pull enough strings for this bachelor. Becca, who is our second virgin on the show, claimed she was nervous to kiss Chris…because she was a virgin? “I volunteer as tribute!” begged my roommate. Yet finally, the couple shared their first kiss as Becca stated that it felt right and my frontrunner senses were tingling.
A sing-off competition ensued on the group date with country stars Big & Rich, as the women were asked to write and perform an original love song in front of Chris and a concert-wide audience. Britt stole the limelight and a smooch-sesh from the bachelor on stage. The others sang their hearts out to Chris, desperately grasping his attention. Even Jade, pulled Chris aside, basically telling him how totally down she was to live in Iowa. Desperate times call for desperate measures? No luck there, as that forward comment made Chris run off with Britt to a sold out Big & Rich concert, leaving a let-down group of women in the dust.
If the tension couldn’t be thicker, Chris took crazy ladies Ashley I. and Kelsey on a two-on-one date because the producers clearly ran out of cage-fighting videos to watch. After a helicopter ride over Mt. Rushmore, they landed in the Badlands for allotted alone time with Chris. Each woman called the other fake, which the rest of America found ironic. After Kelsey heard what Ashley said about her, she came back and gave her a death stare saying, “I know what you did” and we all felt like we were in high school again.
A now, third round of Kardashian-esque tears from Ashley’s end hurt our brains as she pulled another stunt that left Kelsey deviously grinning, and now we know who was the runner-up for the role of Amy Dunne in Gone Girl.
Through some sort of crazy telepathy, it was like he read our minds as he sent both Ashley and Kelsey packing. The girls back at the mansion watched as Ashley and soon after, Kelsey’s bags were rolled away and the house celebrated with a round of drinks as the rest of us went back to our ‘Bachelor Fantasy Drafts’, placing bets on which woman would be the next one to churn drama like butter.
So is this no rose ceremony gonna keep being a thing?I need to know cause my bachelor fantasy league is REALLY hurting bc of it #TheBachelor
— Greer Grammer (@Greer_Grammer) February 10, 2015
Less excitement now since those two are gone #TheBachelor
— Marcus Grodd (@marcusgrodd) February 10, 2015
You have to give Chris a lot of credit for enduring all the tears.. #TheBachelor
— Nick Viall (@viallnicholas28) February 10, 2015
Scotch. I mean, how else do you get through this double date? #TheBachelor -CB pic.twitter.com/zcdkWJzIhI
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 10, 2015
Always a bad move virgin. Always. a bad. move. I do like your turquoise tho. #TheBachelor
— Eric Stonestreet (@ericstonestreet) February 10, 2015
“@usweekly: OK it had to be done. #TheBachelor #watchwithUs. pic.twitter.com/zsiRn5X0RT” @marleylilly
— mattie antoinette (@missmatttttt) February 10, 2015