Because she's been there and done that, literally, former Bachelor contestant/tear fountain Ashley Iaconetti is recapping this season of The Bachelor for Cosmopolitan. With insider insight as well as a clear eye for what's going down both in front of and behind the cameras, read on for her thoughts. This post contains spoilers for the season 23 premiere of The Bachelor. Hey, Bachelor Nation! It's been too long! Good to talk to y'all! Let’s do things a little differently this time around—instead of recapping the episodes (because, hello, you probably already watched it, do you really need it recapped? ), I’m going to zero in on the moments I see differently from the viewers at home as an insider. Think more dissecting the ~good stuff~, less play-by-play. Cool? Cool. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Hannah B. on last night’s The Bachelor. ABC/Rick Rowell Can we talk about Hannah B. (Miss Alabama) and Caelynn (Miss North Carolina)? These two competed against each other in the 2018 Miss USA pageant. They may not have beef from their past, but I have an inkling that Hannah feels like an underdog in Caelynn’s presence. I say this just based on her saying, “She was runner up. She beat me” when Caelynn walked into the mansion. I have a feeling that Caelynn will be a point of insecurity for Hannah throughout this competition. I wonder if we’ll get close-ups on Hannah and Caelynn’s faces when the other has her name on a date card. Or if we’ll see Hannah react to the fact Caelynn got a kiss on night one next week. Or if we’ll see these two on competitive group dates together. Better yet, I wonder if these two eventually go on a two-on-one together. Caelynn on last night’s The Bachelor. ABC/Rick Rowell I can see the promos for the beauty queen showdown already in my head. As of now, Caelynn is made out to be the collected sweetheart and Hannah to be a little more high strung and extra. This portrayal doesn’t take too much effort. Simply adding into Hannah’s intro package the soundbite, “I’m a queen here [in Alabama]" flags the audience to think of her as little full of herself. While this may be reality TV and the show truly doesn’t stray that far from the reality of a situation, remember there's enough footage to make a villain seem kind and an angel look like a devil and everything in-between. As a Bachelor contestant, in the beginning at least, you’re just an “X” simplified and plugged into a formula. There's not enough time do it any other way when you start out with 30 women. You usually get to see the complexity of someone’s character more on Paradise. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. I floss, Kirpa! ABC/Rick Rowell Don’t forget the power of the music they put behind a character. If the show was free of music, you’d likely not dislike the villain as much you normally do and your eyes would light up less when you see The Bachelor’s favorite. See: when Kirpa, the dental hygienist said, “I hope Colton flosses” while creepy music played. The show is signaling that she’s going to be the outcast or weirdo, but why? Is the hope for flossing really that weird? Colton’s theme is the virgin Bachelor. Arie's was the mature race car driver finally getting a second chance. Nick was fourth-time's-the-charm. Ben's was the self-described “unlovable” guy, publicly perceived “perfect” guy. Chris' was the farmer looking to find someone willing to move to rural Iowa. Unfortunately, I think the question asked the entire season will be, “Who is Colton going to lose his virginity to?” Colton and his true love? ABC/Rick Rowell That makes me kind of sad because it should be more about who he’s going to fall in love with and less of who’s vagina he’s going to put his penis in. I know that’s super blunt, but when you say it like that you realize how crazy it is that we’re talking about something so private so much! Also saying it like that makes me think, Big whoop-de-doo! Why do we care that he hasn’t done that yet. I’ve never understood why my virginity was that fascinating and for the same reason, I probably won’t understand why Colton’s is either. I’ll feed into the double standard for a sec and say that a hot 26-year-old male, former NFL player who’s a virgin is a little fascinating...until I remember he’s a virgin for the same reason I was a 26-year-old virgin. Cheers! ABC/Rick Rowell It’s not for a lack of attention from the opposite sex or physical attractiveness or religion, it’s because he hasn’t yet met someone he feels committed to and comfortable enough with to share that intimate experience. It’s not that whacky or weird, people. I thought the abrupt way Erika approached the topic with Colton during their first-ever chat was going to get her eliminated. But then I realized that a lot of the audience probably needed a reminder if it was a religious thing or a waiting-‘til-marriage thing. The producers probably saw how outspoken she was and thought she’d be the perfect person to pose the “Why are you a virgin?” question to Colton on the first night. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Can you guys believe how many times the girl in the red dress, Catherine, interrupted everyone? ! Poor sloth! ABC/Rick Rowell If you actually thought she WASN’T going to get that final rose during the ceremony, you obviously haven’t watched this show too many seasons. The obnoxious interrupter will almost always stick around for a few weeks. Usually the person dressed in a costume gets at least a couple weeks too, because they're usually pretty sane. Colton's affinity for sloths (the animal) wasn't enough to extend the sloth (in the costume) a rose. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Colton kissed three girls! That’s the most amount of first kisses that has ever aired during a premiere episode. I think there have been multiple first-night-kisses before, but never three aired! Back in my day kissing on that night was so rare. I remember finding out Brit kissed Chris on night-one once the show AIRED. I was shocked. I think kissing three girls was Colton’s way of showing the audience he may be a virgin, but that doesn’t mean he’s a prude. 😘 ABC/Rick Rowell And that wraps up week one! In other, more personal Bachelor news, Jared and I are in the midst of planning our August wedding. I'll be sharing the planning process in a new column for Cosmopolitan, which will debut tomorrow! This month, you'll get the scoop on if our wedding will be televised and how I surprised myself wedding dress shopping. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Ashley Iaconetti Ashley Iaconetti is our resident Bachelor recapper. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>The only thing more dramatic than drama on The Bachelor is previous drama that carried over to become drama on The Bachelor. Still with us? Two contestants after Colton Underwood's heart knew each other before the show, and let's just say they didn't start filming on good terms. Hannah Brown and Caelynn Miller-Keyes, aka Miss Alabama USA 2018 and Miss North Carolina USA 2018, respectively, competed for the title of Miss USA 2018. Not only that, but the two were roommates during the competition. During the second episode of season 23, both women separately commented on the tension that started at the pageant and carried over to the show. "Hannah. B and I know each other, and we're not necessarily the best of friends," Caelynn said. "We competed at Miss USA together. She's Miss Alabama, and I'm Miss North Carolina. We were roommates at Miss USA. We were super close, and then she was not happy that I was first runner-up. She was mad she didn't place. For sure, there were a lot of hurt feelings. With Hannah, there's a facade, and then it starts to crumble. Hannah kind of snapped. She flipped a switch, and I was like, 'Wow, this is a whole new Hannah.' So being in this environment, it's pretty similar." Caelynn thinks that switch will be flipped again on the show and that it will happen pretty quickly. Hannah B. also had some choice words about Caelynn, saying: "I'm not happy that Caelynn's getting time with Colton. If I start thinking about it, I'll turn into a crazy woman. I think I definitely have more insight to, like, what type of person she is. Like, she's fake." Yikes! If only that room they shared could talk. "It's just so funny because there's not one person in the world that I have a problem with, except her," Hannah B. said to Hannah Godwin about Caelynn. "It totally scares me for Colton." While we don't know the full story yet about what happened during the big pageant, the ladies must know each other pretty well from sharing a room. "My relationship with Colton was solidified last night that there is definitely something there," Hannah B. said. "But now, I'm really scared that she's gonna say something to him to really screw it up." There's still some social media evidence of the contestants' friendship on Instagram, but the last photo of just the two of them was posted by Hannah B. in February 2018. Keep reading to see pictures of the pageant beauties from, uh, better times.<doc-sep>
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 01/07/2019 ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW REALITY TV WORLD ON THE ALL-NEW GOOGLE NEWS! Reality TV World is now available on the all-new Google News app and website. Click here to visit our Google News page, and then click FOLLOW to add us as a news source! ADVERTISEMENT Elizabeth Kwiatkowski is Associate Editor of Reality TV World and has been covering the reality TV genre for more than a decade. host Chris Harrison has revealed a single conversation between Colton Underwood and one of his bachelorettes, Caelynn Miller-Keyes , will have a significant impact on Season 23.Harrison said Caelynn and star will have a very deep and emotional conversation that will have a tremendous impact on how the rest of his journey to find lasting love plays out. "[Caelynn] brings out a story, a personal story, that is one of the most emotional, revealing conversations we have ever had on the show. We were all very much taken aback," Harrison told Entertainment Tonight last month. "So was Colton, and that kind of prompts things in Colton's life. And so it was... very different. "Harrison, however, refused to joke about the topic of interest, declining an opportunity to call Caelynn's reveal "the most dramatic thing ever" or teasing to fans they've "never seen this before and it's unlike anything! ""I often joke... and I don't want to do that, because it really does a disservice to what this conversation is about," Harrison admitted. "Kudos to both of them -- for her speaking about it and Colton receiving it the right way and then having the conversation that he did. It was very memorable, and something that is going to change the course of the entire show. "Harrison added the conversation leads to another "reveal" from Colton, who disclosed on ette's fourteenth season starring Becca Kufrin that he is a 26-year-old virgin. "I think just the conversation they had, on both of their parts, was unbelievably vulnerable, open and revealing. I think one kind of begets the other, for sure," the longtime host admitted. "Caelynn kind of started it with something she let go, and I think Colton felt comfortable and I think he felt like he owed her certain things in that space because she had just revealed so much personally. "Harrison noted of the discussion, "It really is a depth and emotion that we have never really faced before" on franchise.Caelynn is expected to share with Colton on how she had been a victim of sexual assault on her college campus at age 22, according to Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone.Helping and educating rape victims ended up being Caelynn's platform when she competed for Miss USA after winning the title of Miss North Carolina 2018, so she is comfortable with publicly discussing her traumatic past. "My whole world was flipped upside down," Caelynn shared at a press conference at the High Point Chamber of Commerce in April 2018, according to Life & Style. "I didn't know what you should do when you report, I didn't know what my rights were, I didn't know what the process was. "Caelynn reportedly revealed the man responsible for molesting her was a member of a fraternity house, who just so happened to be one of her own friends. "These are guys... that went to high schools around me, I knew these guys for years," Caelynn allegedly explained.It's unclear what big "reveal" Colton will share with Caelynn in return, but viewers can definitely anticipate the charity founder and former professional football player will explain why he has waited so long to have sex for the first time.When Harrison found out Colton's reasoning during filming, the host told ET, "Everything just kind of fell into place, and it made a lot of sense to me... I wasn't surprised at all. I just had great admiration he was able to open up the way he did. ""For me as the host, producer, friend, psychologist that I am -- it allowed me in deeper and it allowed me to do my job better and be a better friend, be a better confidante," Harrison continued. "But it's his story to tell and his world to live in, and I wanted to help him. That's my job. And I felt like I couldn't fully help him until he would allow me in, and allow all of us in, and he did.