Is season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise taking a cue from its unique iteration, Bachelor Pad?
The Monday, July 7, premiere of the ABC spinoff launched the concept of video games on the new Paradise resort in Costa Rica.
“[There’s] numerous compatibility testing and challenges, which is numerous enjoyable,” host Jesse Palmer informed Us Weekly throughout an unique interview. “I received to put on a sport present host hat every so often, which was actually cool and distinctive. It retains our solid on their toes. They by no means know what’s across the nook.”
Jesse mentioned that it “raises the stakes in a manner that we’ve by no means seen” on BiP.
“And I believe getting everyone in a gaggle setting extra typically was actually attention-grabbing. It helped folks be taught extra about one another from a connection standpoint, and the group received to be taught extra about one another as properly,” he mentioned. “So there’s extra twists and turns coming too.”
Whereas the group does an exercise about discovering one another’s purple flags within the premiere, the trailer teases some bodily challenges that just about appear like they might be performed on Survivor or The Problem.
“Should you assume you know the way Paradise works, prepare, as a result of every part is about to vary,” Jesse says within the clip.
One other sport seems to be impressed by a Love Island–kind problem, with solid members making out with folks exterior of their connection “to see in case you have fireworks with another person.” Within the supertease, Kat Izzo describes the station as “Starvation Video games: Paradise Version.”
The season trailer ends with a bag of $500,000 of money — and Jesse teasing, “Your destiny goes to be decided tonight. It’s a must to make your most vital determination: half one million {dollars}, or is it love?” (He beforehand informed the solid within the premiere that the present “hope[s] to supply our greatest and our strongest {couples} a life-changing alternative.”)
When pressed for particulars throughout his chat with Us, Jesse performed coy. “That was Wells’ bag of cash — you by no means know who doesn’t take bank cards in Paradise,” he teased. “Individuals are going to have to observe to search out out. Wells needs to be extra cautious preserving that cash mendacity round.”
Whereas some followers have thought-about Paradise (and all variations of The Bachelor) a contest present since its 2002 premiere, the franchise usually leans into the concept contestants are merely on the lookout for love. Bachelor Pad, which aired for 3 seasons from 2010 to 2012, was the one earlier spinoff with a money prize.
The format adopted Bachelor and Bachelorette alums competing in each particular person and coupled-up challenges for immunity, with the group voting to get rid of contestants every week. The ultimate couple gained $250,000, with season 3 star Nick Peterson being the one contestant to decide to “hold” the cash as an alternative of “share” together with his associate, Rachel Truehart.
Bachelor in Paradise airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
