ABC Pauses The Bachelorette, No New Season Airing This Summer

The Bachelorette will not be welcoming new suitors to the mansion this summer.

The ABC reality franchise is pausing its female-centric spinoff and won’t be airing a Summer 2025 season. New seasons have historically aired in the summer after a Bachelorette has been chosen from the pool of contestants on the most recent season of The Bachelor.

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According to our sister site Deadline, which broke the news, The Bachelorette has not been cancelled, and it could possibly return later in 2025. A reason for the skipped summer cycle, however, has not been made clear.

The Bachelorette‘s latest run ended last year with an emotional twist after Jenn Tran decided to give Devin Strader her final rose and, in a Bachelorette first, was the one who proposed to him. (Read full recap.) The pair got engaged, only for fans to learn that Strader later broke things off in a phone call. Tran had to relive the pain of the whole affair during the After the Final Rose live reunion, in what TVLine’s Dave Nemetz called an “exercise in needless cruelty.”

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The Bachelor premiered in March 2002 and is currently airing Season 29 episodes — centered on one of Tran’s exes, Grant Ellis — on Mondays at 8/7c on ABC. The Bachelorette made its subsequent debut in January 2003, and has aired 21 seasons so far. The dating franchise has inspired other offshoots, including Bachelor Pad, which premiered in August 2010 and eventually evolved into Bachelor in Paradise in 2014; the spinoff has aired nine seasons. Most recently, ABC debuted The Golden Bachelor/Bachelorette, each having aired its freshman run.

The Bachelorette’s most recent cycle, which aired in July and August 2024, averaged 2.5 million total viewers and a 0.4 demo rating (in Live+Same Day), matching its Summer 2023 numbers.

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