Bachelorette 2010 Spoilers: How The Show Is Filmed From The Final Four To Final Rose Ceremony

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Every season of the The Bachelor or The Bachelorette is filmed the same way from the final four to the final rose ceremony. Here was how this season was done.

Once they are down to the final four, these guys are secluded from EVERYONE, even each other. In fact, from the time of the final four all the way down to the final two, you never even are able to speak to anyone else on the show outside of the Bachelorette Ali.

How can they pull this off? Well Kirk, Roberto, Chris, and Frank are all placed in four separate hotels with only their handlers. They don’t go home for a week and hang with family and friends waiting for Ali to show up. They are absolutely secluded from each other in separate LA hotels. Once it’s their turn for the hometown, they’re flown out with their handlers, and STILL not allowed to see family. They are put up in a hotel in their hometown until their date begins. So Ali and Roberto’s date begins, they play baseball, have a picnic, and when they walk into Roberto’s house to meet his family, that’s the first time Roberto is seeing his family since he’s been back as well. Repeat the process for the other three dates. Once the date is over, Ali leaves, the guys do not stay at their parents house in their old bed. Instead they are taken back to their hotel in town, flown back to LA the next day, back to their hotel with their handler and just wait everything out until the rose ceremony comes up.

So what do they do during that time? Nothing. Basically all they can do is use the gym, rent movies, or go to the movies – all with their handler. Remember, at this time, the show obviously isn’t airing, so people have no idea who these guys are, but still, they are kept under lock and key that they don’t go crazy on their phone and internet talking to a bunch of people. So if you have the first hometown, you have a long wait afterwards. Usually around a week or so. And if you have the last one, like Frank, you’re waiting a week or more with nothing to do but basically think about your ex-girlfriend some more.

Final four rose ceremony comes, these guys are brought into the room one at a time, arriving in separate cars, and once in there, not allowed to say a word to each other. They don’t want any of them conversing for fear of info getting out that might influence the outcome.

(Now last night, you may have seen Chris say a little something to Roberto when he showed up, but there was nothing at stake since they were both getting roses).

The producers monitor everything and makes sure no one talks to each other other than pleasantries.
Once the elimination ends, all the guys go back to their hotels, and are flown on separate flights on different days, out to Tahiti. Once again, not all flying out on one talking about Ali and their hometowns. Three separate flights all on different days. In fact, you don’t go out there until it’s your turn for your day with Ali. So Roberto goes first, then Chris, and while they’re gone, that’s when Frank was flown back to Chicago for his meeting with Nicole.

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