airing a wedding special in Palm Springs which was heavily attended by other franchise stars and even included an engagement between Brayden Bowers and his fellow “Bachelor in Paradise” co-star Christina Mandrell.
Three months later, Turner and Nist announced their divorce. Fingers crossed the first-ever woman “Golden Bachelorette,” Joan Vassos, has better luck.
The first-ever Bachelorette, Trista Rehn, a former Miami Heat dancer turned pediatric physical therapist, set standards high for the Bachelor franchise for still being with her pick, Ryan Sutter, 21 years after the finale aired in 2003.
Trista was the runner-up on the first season of “The Bachelor,” Alex Michel’s season. After getting her heart broken, Mike Fleiss, creator of the show, chose Trista to trailblaze “The Bachelorette.” She got engaged to Sutter, a firefighter from Colorado.
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