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Sean Lowe on Double Bachelorette Format: “The Girls Didn’t Have an Ounce of Confidence”

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Sean Lowe took to his Patheos blog to weigh in with his thoughts about how the two Bachelorette format played out in the premiere with Britt Nilsson and Kaitlyn Bristowe

Sean Lowe wasn't a fan of the two Bachelorette idea in theory, and he's not a fan of it in practice, either. After voicing his objections to the pitch when it was announced back in March, he weighed in again after the premiere aired on May 18.

The For the Right Reasons author took to his Patheos blog on Tuesday to share his thoughts about part one of the two-part episode, which brought back season 20 contestants Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson, who vied for Chris Soules' affections earlier this year. As he watched, he said, one thing became "glaringly obvious" to him: "Neither Britt [nor] Kaitlyn seemed very confident."

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Lowe blamed this on the season's new format, which allowed the men to vote on the two women that first night. As viewers saw during part two of the premiere on Tuesday, May 19, Bristowe was named the new Bachelorette, while Nilsson went home in tears.

"Neither woman was in charge of the evening," the season 17 Bachelor blogged. "The guys have the power when they decide the fate of the women. On every other season, the bachelor/ette goes into it knowing that they call the shots, they pick the dates, and they know what traits they're looking for in the men."

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Bristowe will have that advantage going forward, of course, but she didn't have it going in. Lowe, 31, said it seemed like she and Nilsson were campaigning instead of just getting to know their potential future husbands. 

"Last night, the girls didn't have an ounce of confidence," he wrote. "It was hard because it seemed like the girls were almost pitching themselves to the men as if they were running for student body president and every vote mattered."

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He went on to note Ryan McDill's drunken behavior, which got him kicked off the show by Chris Harrison. Lowe thinks Kaitlyn should have been the one to boot him from the competition since it was her butt he grabbed, but "it was as if she didn't think she had that authority," he wrote.

Conversely, Lowe knew he was in the driver's seat when he took over as the Bachelor in season 17. Recalling his first kiss with his now-wife, Catherine Giudici, he remembered her asking whether it was okay for them to be outside without any cameras.

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"With an almost obnoxious confidence, I said, 'Of course we can. I'm the Bachelor,'" he wrote. "Yes, I realize that sentence makes me sound like a giant tool, but I understood that I called the shots and I was more concerned with getting a romantic moment with Catherine than I was [with] getting a good shot of it all."

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