Celebrities Who Love ‘The Bachelor’

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Celebrities Who Love ‘The Bachelor’

Stars really are just like Us — they, too, can't get enough of the Bachelor franchise! Over the years, many celebrities have shared their obsession with the show. In 2016, Blue Bloods actor Donnie Wahlberg shared his passion for the show, penning more than 1,000 words for Chicago Splash about his obsession. "How I lost my Monday nights — but not quite my manhood — to my wife’s favorite TV show. Don’t laugh, it could happen to you, too," the intro of the story read. "I know all these Bachelor guys on a first-name and character-description basis. The same way that so many husbands had to get to know [New Kids on the Block's] Donnie, Jordan, Danny, Jon and Joe?" [jwplayer 3yRJuusm-zhNYySv2] In 2019, Charlize Theron shared a photo of herself in front of the sign for Peter Weber's season of The Bachelor — and she's not shy about sharing that. "I love the show," she told Entertainment Tonight the following year. "Look, he’s like half my age — not that that should matter, but, no, he’s great. I’m super excited. I love the show. I’ve missed it. And I’m just so glad that the show premieres in the winter when it’s dark early because my kids don’t know what time I send them to bed but like 5:45pm. As soon as it’s dark, [I watch The Bachelor]." Jennifer Aniston is also a big fan. Celebrity hairstylist Justin Anderson revealed in 2021 that she often asks him about his work with Bachelor Nation. "It's so funny because when I would do Bachelor people and I would post it to social media Jennifer Aniston, the next time I would see her she's like, 'Wait did you just meet so-and-so?'" he said during an episode of the "Click Bait with Bachelor Nation" podcast. "Like, we would talk about it. She's definitely a fan!" Selena Gomez and more celebs have also admitted how much they love the reality TV series. Scroll through the gallery below for more famous Bachelor fans. [podcast_block]

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Amanda Seyfried

“I’m going to take some of your time away — nobody told me that I would be meeting you,” the Dropout star gushed to Rachel Lindsay, who was interviewing her for Extra in March 2022. “They did not tell me. Hold on a second. Just give me a second. I’m sorry, I can't help it, I’m just a big fan.”

Five months later, the Mean Girls actress gushed about ABC's choice to have two Bachelorettes — Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia — on season 19 of the show. “It’s the best thing they’ve ever done,” Seyfried said during an August 2022 interview on SiriusXM. “I am most passionate about that direction from now on. I don’t know how you can do it any other way.”

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Maude Apatow

The Euphoria star confessed her Bachelor Nation fandom during a February 2022 interview on Late Night With Seth Meyers, admitting she visited the Bachelor Mansion and met former lead Colton Underwood.

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Hilary Duff

The former Disney star was tapped to host a date on Clayton Echard’s season 26 of The Bachelor in 2022.

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Brody Jenner

The Hills alum often provides commentary on the ABC series and its many spinoffs via Instagram.

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Vanessa Hudgens

"@caliwater and The Bachelorette go great together," the Disney alum wrote via her Instagram Stories while watching a scene from Michelle Young's season in November 2021.

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David Spade

The Saturday Night Live vet often expressed his adoration for the franchise via hilarious comments on Instagram. Those jokes ultimately led to him landing a guest host spot on season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise.

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Selena Gomez

Days after sharing videos from her watch party for the season 24 finale in March 2020, the singer started hanging out with one of Peter Weber’s finalists: Madison Prewett! Gomez shared an Instagram Story picking out board games with the reality TV personality just minutes after Prewett and the pilot announced their split via Instagram.

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Kim Kardashian

During the season 24 Bachelor finale, Kim Kardashian had a viewing party and shared that she FaceTimed host Chris Harrison to get "all the tea."

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Cazzie David

The actress, who is the daughter of comedian Larry David, broke down season 24’s hometown dates with former Bachelor Nick Viall on his “Viall Files” podcast in February 2020. Cazzie even did a spot-on impression of one of Peter Weber’s more controversial contestants, Victoria Fuller. 

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Charlize Theron

The South African actress shared this Instagram photo of herself standing in front an advertisement for season 24 of The Bachelor, starring Peter Weber. “Turbulence I like,” she captioned the pic in December 2019.  

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Donnie Wahlberg

Like his wife, Donnie Wahlberg is also a fan of the franchise. “We have to watch together!” Jenny McCarthy told Us in May 2019 about watching the show with her husband. “And I don’t care if it’s the finale or not, Donnie cries! It’s episode 3 and he’s crying and I’m like, ‘Donnie! You can’t be crying already!’ But I love it, that shows you his emotional side and he’s like the real deep feeler and I’m like the, ‘Tough it out, kid, tough it out’ one.”

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Rachel Bilson

While The O.C. alum was linked to Viall, she shut down romance rumors and revealed she’s really just a fan of the franchise. Bilson joined Viall to break down one of Hannah Brown’s Bachelorette episodes in July 2019.

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Daniel Radcliffe

"The Bachelor, I'm doing a lot of. I say this to people and they seem surprised,” the Harry Potter star revealed on Good Morning America in January 2019. “I would also like to say I used to be, like, one of those guys that was like, 'Yeah, you know, my girlfriend makes me watch it.' It's not. I'm making the choice. It's me. Week after week ... I think I used to be really annoying and snobby about it and I actually started watching it and I'm like, 'Nah, I like it.'"

Radcliffe added that he’s “very obsessed” with season 23, starring Colton Underwood. “He seems like a nice person this season. They haven't all been."

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Anna Kendrick

Kendrick live-tweeted Chris Soules’ season of The Bachelor in 2015 and even exchanged tweets with future Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe.

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Spencer Pratt

“I used to live tweet during The Bachelor, and I loved it, until it became an unsafe environment,” Pratt revealed in the 2018 book Bachelor Nation. “All I did was like a fellow Bachelor fan’s tweet and she said she wanted to kill herself. It was Anna Kendrick. She wrote something like, ‘@SpencerPratt just favorited my tweet, looks like I now need to go kill myself.’”

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Jason Ritter and Melanie Lynskey

“I feel like it becomes a reflection of your own issues surrounding romance. [My fiancée] Melanie [Lynskey] and I have gotten into little fights about the show,” Ritter revealed in Bachelor Nation. “I’ll be using Nick Viall as a punching bag, but actually be talking about myself and how I feel. I’m like, ‘He’s just trying to be honest! It’s complicated!’”

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Dakota Fanning

“I’m obsessed with The Bachelor and The Bachelorette,” Fanning told W magazine in July 2018. “With reality television, if it’s all set up and fake, then they’ve got the greatest actors in the world.”

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Jenny McCarthy

“Sometimes I get so excited for these Bachelors and then I’m disappointed, but I have a good feeling about [season 23 star Colton],” McCarthy exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2018.

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Ryan Seacrest

“I usually start strong, and then I lose it in the middle, and then I finish with the live shows,” Seacrest said of his Bachelor-viewing habits in an exclusive interview with Us in December 2018.

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The cast of ‘Scandal’

Scandal stars Josh Malina and Katie Lowes appeared on After Paradise in August 2015 and revealed the cast of the ABC drama was “obsessed” with the reality franchise.

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Sean Penn and Charlize Theron

Sean Penn admitted that he and ex Charlize Theron watched the drama-filled series during their relationship. "We argue about whether or not we should fast [forward]," he said on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March 2015. "I don't really want to hear the conversations, I want to know the decisions. You can decide on this one or this one. And I want to see somebody cry. And then see somebody get ecstatic and then see them cry."

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Amanda Seyfried

Seyfried kept up with season 18 Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis via Twitter. "I hope Clare wins so they can learn English together. #bachelor," the Les Miserables actress tweeted in February 2014. "Chris Klein for The Bachelor. #unironicSuggestion."

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John Mayer

Who knew? The "Say" singer admitted he has a soft spot for the series during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2012. "I don't even feel like it's my fault for liking it," he said. "It's not a guilty pleasure. It's designed to be a pleasure."

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Jennifer Aniston

"You know what I find fascinating? The Bachelor," the Friends alum said in Allure magazine's February 2011 issue. "I was mesmerized by how these girls, they meet this guy, they have three dates together or something, and they're weeping as though they've just lost the love of their life. I don't understand that."

Years later, Aniston joked that she would be willing to take over for Chris Harrison following his permanent departure from the franchise.

"OK, well, I'll do that. Gladly. I'll be the one picking roses in the rose garden," the actress told InStyle in August 2021.

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Andrew Garfield

The Spider-Man star admitted that many "ridiculous people" could turn him into a groupie — including Sean Lowe! "If I met him, I'd be like, 'Oh my god, it's Sean Lowe!'" Garfield told Vulture in July 2013 of the season 17 Bachelor.

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Lea Michele

She's gleeful about The Bachelor! The Glee standout gushed about Sean Lowe's Season 17 during an appearance on The View in March 2013. "Prior to this season, I had never watched The Bachelor before. But, oh my God, I am so sucked into it."

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Allison Williams

The Girls star admitted she felt more empathy for the contestants once she got engaged to boyfriend Ricky Van Veen. "Suddenly the show feels real," she said during a March 2014 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. "I understand the stakes for the first time ever." 

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Ellen DeGeneres

In March 2012, the comedian tried to warn season 16 Bachelor Ben Flajnik about contestant Courtney Robertson on her show. "She manipulated you to try and get that rose because she said, 'Oh, I don't know how I feel.' Then you went and got the rose and gave it to her. That was not right."

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Brian Williams

During Andi Dorfman’s season of The Bachelorette, the MSNBC anchor revealed he started watching the show when his daughter Allison invited him to her viewing party. On a July 2014 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, Williams said, “Just as I wouldn’t speculate going into an election night, I can’t speculate on the outcome, except to say ‘Andi, we’re with you. We realize this season has been one of heartache, great travel and adventure, but what a season.’”

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Abigail Breslin

The August: Osage County actress often live-tweets during the show. "Watching The Bachelor Women Tell All...DRAMA'S BOUT TO GO DOWN AND I COULDN'T BE MORE EXCITED," she tweeted in March 2014 about season 18 Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis.

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Howard Stern

The radio disc jockey poked fun at season 11 during a March 2011 Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance. "[My wife Beth] thinks I'm such a great catch after she watches that moron Bachelor [Brad Womack]," he said. "He's a very good-looking guy but he's got the personality of an eggplant."

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Kirsten Dunst

No. 1 fan! The Bachelorette actress has reportedly said that her girlfriends gave her a T-shirt that reads "Most. Exciting. Rose Ceremony."

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

The former Client List star went on a date with season 16 Bachelor Ben Flajnik in 2011. "She's a nice girl, but...after this is all said and done, I want to go back to Northern California to my normal life," Flajnik told reporters before his season's premiere.

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Taye Diggs

The Private Practice alum couldn't help but tweet about season 16 of The Bachelor with Ben Flajnik in January 2012. "I'm watching DVR'ed episodes of The Bachelor. I'm addicted. I may have a problem. I'm sorry."

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Emma Roberts

The American Horror Story star has hilariously shared her opinions about the show via Twitter. "Finally watched last weeks #TheBachelor. Are you kidding?!?! AshLee [Frazier] is awesome," she wrote in March 2013 during Sean Lowe's season 17. "Best exit. She better be the next Bachelorette!!"

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Sarah Hyland

"I am a TV junkie: Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, True Blood, American Horror Story, Community, Stupid Realty Singing Competition Shows, The Bachelor, Breaking Bad, House of Cards," the Modern Family star told Marie Claire in February 2014. "There's a lot of good TV out there."

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Kaley Cuoco

The Big Bang Theory actress is a longtime fan of the ABC series. She and season 6 Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky have shared photos of themselves watching the show live with a group of their girlfriends.

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Jason Biggs

He's got a lot to say! The American Pie alum often live-tweets the program. "My week-old son is more convincingly into these girls than Juan Pablo is. #TheBachelor," he joked during season 18 in February 2014. 

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Whitney Port

The City alum has previously spoken about the drama-filled series in interviews. To top it off, she also has blogged about specific episodes!

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January Jones

The Mad Men actress told James Corden in November 2017 that she thought the season 21 Bachelor, Nick Viall, was attractive. Although the duo have been flirty on social media, Jones told Entertainment Tonight in February that they are just friends and Viall gives her “lots of inside scoops” about Bachelor Nation. She later joined him on his "Viall Files" podcast.

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Kate Hudson

The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days actress has been known to Snapchat herself watching the show!

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Amy Schumer

The comedian has expressed her love for the franchise during several live shows. She once called former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe her “favorite person” and also joked that JJ Lane is a “turd.”

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis

They’re big fans! The That 70’s Show alums appeared on Rachel Lindsay’s Bachelorette season to help her find love. Not only did the couple host a group date, but they also raved about their love for the ABC dating series!

The Luckiest Girl Alive actress has continued to keep up with the ABC franchise long after her cameo.

“I have kids and a family. There's only so much that you can do [to relax],” Kunis told Extra in September 2022. “My version of unwinding: come home, my husband hands me a glass of wine, and I sit there and I decompress. I watch reality TV or I read some dumb articles or try not to focus and hyperfocus on something.”

As a dutiful member of Bachelor Nation, the actress tuned in for Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s joint season.

“This whole season to me was a little wonky because it was one of these weird things where you didn't even have time to invest in anybody's relationship because they were showcasing two separate people falling madly in love,” Kunis said during an appearance on Sirius XM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” later that September. “And you're, like normally within the span of a season, you watch the people fall in love and you are invested. And here you never even got to watch them fall in love. It kind of just happened. And then they were in love. He was, she was in love. He was in love.”

After watching Rachel and Tino Franco’s emotional breakup amid cheating allegations, Kunis noted that the show’s drama got “too real.”

She added: “I don't like it. ... I just like the entertainment part. … I was like, ‘Bad, bad, bad actions on his behalf. Like, really stupid dude.’ Don’t go super extreme night one, right? But also maybe just bad communication skills amongst everybody.”

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Jennifer Lawrence

Lawrence, a self-proclaimed huge fan of the series, told Vanity Fair in March 2018 that she wants to pitch a show called Breakup Island where reality stars who’ve been broken up with on TV try to find love again.