The Bachelor, which premiered in 2002, introduced the first impression rose during season 5 in 2004. After skipping the first impression rose during season 6, it became a premiere staple from season 7 on.
The first-night rose has played a bigger role, however, on The Bachelorette.DeAnna Pappas was the first lead to pick a first impression rose winner — Jesse Csincsak — during the season 4 finale of The Bachelorette in 2008.
Two years later, Ali Fedotowsky got engaged to Roberto Martinez, who got the coveted rose on her season.“If it were up to me when I was the Bachelorette, there would have been no season … [or] there would have a season and it would have been Frank [Neuschaefer] and Roberto the entire time,” Ali recalled on Us Weekly’s.
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