This season of The Bachelor has started and so has a new phase of my life. I decided to watch along for the first time ever, and subsequently am already obsessed with knowing everything about the entire Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise world. So when I saw Kaitlyn Bristowe (a past Bachelor contestant and former Bachelorette) post on Instagram saying it looked like the franchise got rid of the two-drink limit based on what she saw on premiere night, I went into a deep dive to find out more.
Before the two-drink rule
You should already know The Bachelor is basically a reality dating show where a bunch of people vye for the heart of one man or woman. There are tons of different spin-offs and variations of the show, but what they all have in common is that there is alcohol available to contestants throughout their entire stay.
In the past, the champagne and alcohol ran freely without any rules put in place by the show or network about what contestants could or could not consume. In fact, a contestant on the 2013 season of The Bachelor, Leslie Hughes, told The Daily Beast about her experience on the show and just how much alcohol was involved.
Hughes said that there was a huge assortment of alcohol when filming and that drinking was encouraged: "When I came in for the producers’ weekend, I remember it was like 12 noon, and they were like, ‘You want some champagne, wine?’" she told the publication. "And I was like, ‘It’s 12 p.m., noon!’ And they’re like, ‘Welcome to the Bachelor family.’"
Enforcing the drink limit
After a widely reported on incident in 2017, a two-drink per hour limit was created. During filming for the fourth season of Bachelor in Paradise, an alleged sexual assault took place, prompting Warner Bros. to look into any potential misconduct that had happened. Per The Hollywood Reporter:
A producer filed a complaint over an alleged sexual encounter between two contestants who had been drinking, Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson. It remains unclear if the producer witnessed the incident or had seen the footage, though sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Olympios was "lucid" and "conversational" on the tape. Still, since alcohol was involved, there was a question of whether one or both parties may have been too intoxicated to give consent.
Eventually, the investigation concluded there had been no such misconduct and filming resumed as planned, but this issue remained: Producers were worried about how alcohol was affecting contestants' decision-making and ability to coherently give consent. Thus, the two-drink per hour maximum rule was implemented at ABC's discretion.
Arie Luyendyk Jr., who was the leading man of the Bachelor season directly following the Bachelor in Paradise scandal, told Us Weekly that he did notice less alcohol consumption on his season: "I wasn’t really aware of any new rules. I do believe there was a little bit less alcohol involved, but that’s OK," he said.
Does the rule still exist?
Kaitlyn Bristowe seems to think that rule is a little more lenient these days. She was the lead of The Bachelorette long before the drink limit was imposed. While watching last night's premiere, she seemed to think the rule is no longer enforced as strongly, but this is only based on her assumptions from watching the girls and their behaviors on the first night.
Kaitlyn was watching alongside Danielle Maltby, another Bachelor alum, who also made comments about how it seems that drink limit doesn't exist anymore based on how the girls were acting on night one.
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Kaitlyn captioned her video, "We were both saying the same thing. Did they say bye to the two drink limit? Cuz these girls seem loosey goosey." Danielle is seen in the background also making an Instagram story, commenting on the drink limit. There's no telling how much alcohol each person consumed, but throughout the night, most people could be seen with full glasses.
And, as I learned yesterday upon watching my first Bachelor premiere ever, the filming for that first night of introductions through the first rose ceremony goes all the way until the next morning. So, even if the two drink per hour limit is still enforced, that could still potentially lead to quite a few drinks over the entire duration of filming. There's no telling if the rule is still enforced, although some franchise vets seem to think not.
Host Chris Harrison has said in the past to The Hollywood Reporter that despite what people might think, alcohol is not a big aspect of the show at all. "As far as alcohol goes, that's never been a big thing for us. That's a big misconception of the show—that we push it, and that we need it and we want it," Chris said. "But that really doesn't help us. Someone being sloppy drunk and being out of it does not give us good television." We reached out to ABC to see if the two-drink limit is still in place on the show.
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