That confrontation reached its peak when Kelsey, who claimed she’d had the bottle of champagne imported from her hometown to specially drink with Pete and compared the bottle to “her heart,” claimed she “didn’t even like champagne.”
But Pete was distracted by the presence of other women. Victoria P. got a date rose, and he took her to a local country and western bar. Victoria P. revealed more about her traumatic childhood, admitting she felt guilty about burdening Pete with this information post-champagne-gate, but her candor earned Pete’s respect.
The following morning, Demi Burnett—of The Bachelor in Paradise and Bachelor Season 23 fame—showed up at the mansion to lead the women in a pillow fight. The women were bussed to a local bar, which had set up a “foxy boxing” ring for them to hit one another with pillows in their lingerie. Fred Willard and Chris Harrison gave commentary as Alayah won the final battle.
This pulled focus back to Alayah, who found herself on the receiving end of accusations of fakeness from the other girls, specifically that she uses a “baby voice” around Pete.
It fell to Sydney to inform Pete about Alayah’s “being there for the wrong reasons.” This won Sydney a rose for her honesty.
The following day, the women were then sent to a pool party with Peter, and informed a rose ceremony would immediately follow it.
During the course of the party, Pete tried to ferret information about Alayah’s alleged dishonesty out of the other girls. In speaking to Sarah P., he learned that Alayah not only knew her beforehand through the pageant circuit, she seems more excited about what comes from being famous through the show than being with Pete.
Pete confronted Alayah with this information, and subsequently caught her in a lie about knowing Sarah P. before the show.
In the end, Alayah paid for her treachery and went home to her grandma, along with chill esthetician Alexa, Jasmine and Sarah.
In other Bachelor news, a spin-off called The Bachelor: Listen with Your Heart has been announced. Chris Harrison will host what sounds like a mash-up of American Idol and The Bachelor. Twenty people will live together, going on Bachelor-like group dates and exploring relationships. When duos form, they will be required to go through musical challenges, including duet contests. High scorers will stay in the house, low scorers will be eliminated, until there’s just one couple standing. The show will debut April 13 on ABC.
Back on the parent series, we’re now down to 15 contestants. Who goes home tonight? What will Chris Harrison wear? You’ll have to tune in to find out!
8:08 p.m.: After the rose ceremony, the women have gathered to talk out the Alayah drama when Chris Harrison appears and tells them to meet him—they’re going to be “making biscuits.”
Kelsey says that she did the right thing and told the truth.
Harrison assures the women that they shouldn’t take Pete’s leaving in the middle of the party upset as a slight. He is, according to Harrison, committed and believes one of the women is his wife-to-be.
Chris Harrison announces that Pete has left L.A.—and that the women will be following him around the world. They’re first headed to Cleveland, Ohio, which gets a muted response from the women. “You have an hour to pack. You will not be coming back,” he warns them ominously.
“When I think of Ohio, I don’t necessarily think of romance,” admits Kelsey.
Cut to Ohio. “This is where Superman came from! Clark Kent was born here!” dorkily enthuses Pete, who hopes the women will be impressed by the city after a dramatic, roller-coaster week.
The women try to say flattering things about the Midwest and Midwestern people as they enthuse over their Cleveland penthouse. They’re barely settled in when the first date card arrives.
The card is for Victoria F. “Today, our love soars to new heights,” she’s informed, which makes Victoria F. worry they’re going to go skydiving—she’s afraid of heights.
The other women worry about their own chances. Mykenna cries over the notion of Pete “not knowing her heart.”
8:18 p.m.: Victoria F. is jazzed for her solo date with Pete, even though she’s petrified as the car taxis up to an airport and Pete waits before his plane.
It turns out Victoria F. will be his co-pilot. She admits she’s “dying inside” and “terrified” as they soar off into the foggy morning together. They land at Cedar Point, an amusement park, and he carries her piggyback style throughout the date.
Pete voiceovers about how charming she is as they board a slingshot ride and she loudly freaks out.
Victoria F. calls Cedar Point “the coolest place in the world” and says she’s “having the best time.”
Pete says they have “a great chemistry” and likens their relationship to a roller coaster, with a “slow, steady” climb to the top.
Victoria F. and Pete talk about kids. Pete wants to have either four or two because “if you have three, one has to sit on the roller coaster by themself.” Victoria F. wants two, though she does not get more specific.
Blissed out, Pete and Victoria F. walk toward Pete’s surprise—which involves a mass of screaming people, a band onstage, and Victoria F.’s ex-boyfriend, Chase. She admits she’s “freaking out.”
8:27 p.m.: Chase Rice, whom Victoria F. once dated, is up on stage performing. She is visibly uncomfortable, and Pete is wholly oblivious. Rice performs his new single, “Lonely If You Are” and there is much dancing.
“This is one of the coolest dates I’ve ever been on!” says Pete obliviously, who adds that it “couldn’t have gone any better.”
In a talking head segment, Victoria F. cries as she remembers how stressful Pete and Chase talking to one another was.
Victoria F. corners Chase, and she talks to him, admitting she “can’t, like, lie” to Pete about their relationship if asked.
Chase tells her to do what’s best for her, and Victoria F. walks off alone, crying and stressed out in the rain and scared.
8:44 p.m.: Fun fact: Chase told cleveland.com that he felt “duped” by the Bachelor’s producers, and that he just came on to promote his music and was surprised to be asked to perform for his ex-girlfriend.
Pete is basking in their post-concert glory, while Victoria F. continues to stew in her “must-tell-Pete-the-truth” pain.
She finally does it over dinner, admitting that she was the one who broke it off with Chase.
“His lifestyle doesn’t really match up to what I want, and I knew that I wanted to try with you,” she says tearfully.
“Do you still have feelings for him?” Pete asks.
“No, not at all!” she says quickly. But as Pete dubs the whole situation weird, Victoria F. runs off and sobs.
The rest of the women wait and speculate if Victoria F. is doing well on her date, assuming she must be, as she got the rose the last two times she went out with Pete.
A group date notice arrives. Victoria P., Kyrah, Natasha, Kelley, Kiarra, Madison, Lexie, Shiann, Tammy, Sydney, Hannah Ann, Savannah and Mykenna, are all picked to “tackle love” with Pete, leaving Kelsey in the dust. Thirteen girls, one date, and Kelsey is upset but says she’s crying “happy tears.”
Cut back to Pete and Victoria F., who is upset and crying behind a screen as Pete chases her down.
“I’m so sorry, I knew you were going to react like that,” she sobs.
Pete tries to comfort her, saying he “respects the hell out of her”.
“I really do like you, I’m sorry,” cries Victoria F.
Pete kisses her, and he accepts her apology and praises her honesty.
“Just that he can like, accept me for me at my lowest point. That’s a really great feeling,” Victoria F. says.
“Just know that I do really want you here, even after that most awkward, uncomfortable story,” says Pete. He then offers her a date rose and they slow dance to a cello player’s music.
Pete says he’s “feeling really good” about Victoria.
8:57 p.m.: Pete is excited about his group date, which is taking place at the FirstEnergy Stadium. All 13 girls show up, and Pete talks about how football was his passion as a teenager.
To help Pete with the date are Josh Cribbs and Hanford Dixon, two pro ballers.
“I’m not going to do this because of my back, still,” said Victoria P. After promising to “coach him on the sidelines,” they kiss, and he massages her shoulders while the other women run drills.
Natasha remains done with Pete’s easily distracted self.
The women are then split into two teams. Jon Doss and Morgan Wright are then introduced to commentate on the “BachelorBowl”—The Killer Bees versus the Eliminators, and the winning team gets more solo time with Pete.
“I am genuinely scared for my life right now,” Hannah Ann later admits over shots of herself being tackled, because the girls are “out for blood” and more solo time with Pete.
At one point, Pete nicknames Shiann “Shiannimal,” and makes note of Kelley’s killer arm.
Ultimately, the game ends in a tie score, which means the women must all split their time with Pete at the cocktail party. The women are bummed about this turn of events.
Natasha sticks up for Shiann, whose hard work on the field won their team points. “You should grab Peter first, and I will block for your ass until you’re done,” Natasha says.
9:06 p.m.: It’s time for the cocktail party, which is taking place in a restaurant with sharks in giant tanks. The women are still sore—and get even more sore when Victoria P. steals Pete away for solo time.
Victoria P. talks about wanting to cheer her child on someday during a football game, which Pete admits, he wants too. They make out, and Pete admits he’s feeling “very strongly” for her.
“It’s moving so fast,” he adds, but their feelings are strong.
The rest of the women remain jealous. Shiann in particular says she’s “so pissed” she worked so hard for solo time with Pete, calling him “so phony.”
Shiann eventually corners Pete and explains how pissed off she is about feeling “pushed aside” by Victoria P.’s drama.
Cut back to the other women waiting and the sound of shoes clomping on a staircase. Reenter Alayah, as Mykenna shouts “Shut the front door!”
“There’s a ghost in the room!” she adds.
The women curse and are shocked. “Everyone is shooketh to the core,” says Tammy.
“Everyone wants more solo time with you,” Shiann says.
“Mind if I interrupt?” Alayah asks. Shiann clearly minds.
9:16 p.m.: The moment replays when we get back from commercial. Shiann hesitates to give her time. “I don’t know what to say.”
Pete reluctantly decides to give Alayah time, hugging Shiann.
He also hugs Alayah. “I know, I’m sure you’re very confused,” Alayah says, saying there were a few things she wanted to talk about before she could feel comfortable going home.
“You let yourself, in a way, get manipulated by all of the girls,” she says, who asks for time to explain herself.
Pete asks Alayah about the situation and says she and Victoria P. were very close, even taking a trip to Las Vegas together.
“I was in physical shock that she would even say that!” Alayah says. She claims she and Victoria P. knew each other for years beforehand.
Pete remains utterly confused as to who’s telling the truth, so he confronts Victoria P.
“She’s literally telling me the exact opposite of what you told me,” Pete confronts Victoria P.
“Yeah, we went to Vegas together and like hung out,” Victoria P., who demands that Pete look at her.
“I’m um…baffled,” she says. “You can believe that or believe me,” she says, and claims she’s been vulnerable with him while crying.
The women gossip about Victoria P.’s honesty. Mykenna claims she heard Victoria P. being two-faced during her confessional.
Pete brings the two women together. Alayah claims they were closer, that they’ve known one another for awhile, Victoria P. continues to insist they’re not that close.
“I’m not deaf, I’m hearing what Alayah’s saying in front of me.” He points out that these things make Victoria P. look very bad. Who does he trust?
9:26 p.m.: All of the women are tired; they’re done with Alayah and talking about Victoria P.
“I just want to talk to my boyfriend and I literally can’t because he’s consumed in both of those situations,” Tammy sums up.
Pete says that he thinks he made a decision based on the women’s opinions instead of his own. His vowing to follow his own feelings, and since he continues to have them for Alayah, he asks her if she wants to come back.
Alayah says she will, but he’ll need to promise her they can move past this. They hug.
Pete sits down on the couch with the other women and says he’s doing what he feels like he needs to do. He hopes the women will understand that and gives Alayah the rose. The other women are fuming.
Tammy describes herself as disappointed. Victoria P. says this is making her “question everything.” “The woman who wasn’t on the date got the rose,” Hannah Ann notes.
Natasha excuses herself. Outside, Alayah speaks with two other women and spills the Victoria F./Chase drama. “The internet knows everything,” she says.
“Drama has risen from the dead,” observes Tammy.
9:33 p.m.: “I’ve been a victim so many times, and I’m so over that,” says Alayah to Mykenna, who says that her relationship with Pete is stronger than that.
Lexie and Victoria F., meanwhile, gossip about Alayah. Lexie points out the women faced “bodily harm” in the football game, only to not get a rose.
“He has to clean this sh*t up,” says Victoria P. to Hannah Ann.
Kelsey, meanwhile, gets filled in about Alayah’s return solo. Kelsey handles it with maturity and grace.
“She received it and handled it just like I hoped,” said Pete. The two of them go on a solo date, legging around Cleveland alone. They stop before a polka band and share a dance.
“I was born and raised in Iowa,” says Kelsey, who admits she’d never left the state before The Bachelor. They kiss, they take pictures in a photo booth and stumble upon a soap box derby race.
Kelsey takes a trip in the car, and after Pete gives Kelsey a trophy, they kiss at the crowd’s chanting behest.
9:46 p.m.: Pete and Kelsey sigh over the romantic Cleveland skyline as their date ends and they sip wine.
She thanks him for not running away from who she is. She sadly recounts how her father left the family, leaving behind a letter and a wedding ring, starting a second family.
Pete says it’s beautiful that Kelsey wants to “cultivate a family” even after what she’s been through. She cries, touched, over what that means to her. The two of them share a kiss as fireworks explode overhead.
“I feel so good about us and where we’re headed. She embodies so many qualities in what I’m looking for,” Pete says.
Victoria F., meanwhile, is complaining about Alayah spreading the news about Chase and Victoria F.’s relationship.
“Alayah, we’re going to have a conversation,” said Victoria F., who asks her why she told everyone about her relationship with Chase.
“Well, I had no idea nobody knew,” said Alayah.
“Nobody has their phone here,” Victoria F., who then tells Alayah off for telling everyone about her past relationship.
“I didn’t tell everybody,” Alayah said.
“Then how does everyone know?” Victoria F. asked. She promises to tell Pete everything about the situation. “Good luck, honey.”
All of the women continue to be angry and done with Peter.
“He may not know what he actually wants,” says Natasha. “and that may be the problem.”
10:00 p.m.: It’s time for the rose ceremony, and half of Pete’s prospective brides are annoyed with him.
Deandra and Natasha read Pete the riot act for giving a rose to Alayah, and he apologizes, saying he’s “not a perfect person.” The women do not look accepting.
Victoria P. buttonholes Peter and takes him outside, saying she’s tired of this.
“I can’t sit. I’ve had days to sit and wonder. I’ve been so vulnerable with you, I’ve been nothing but honest with you,” Victoria P. says.
“She’s manipulating you the same way she manipulated me,” Victoria P. said. She points him in the direction of Victoria F., saying it’s “not his story to tell.”
“Run away when it gets real,” Deandra taunts Alayah as she tries to leave.
“I didn’t come back for petty sh*t,” Alayah says.
“That’s exactly why you came back!” says Deandra.
“You’re not a victim, you’re a pot stirrer,” talking heads Victoria F.
Cut to Victoria F. telling Pete all.
“This is just backfiring like no other,” Pete observes. “Oh my god, so much disappointment and frustration from all those girls! I just feel like I’m doing this all wrong.”
Finally, Pete corners Alayah for a talk. As Alayah cries, she says she feels so much better when they’re alone, but with the other girls she gets torn to shreds.
“Why is everyone so against you?” he asks.
“They thought I had too big of a personality, that I was too theatric,” says Alayah, who says she’s been “nothing but honest” with him.
He says he feels like he doesn’t have the time to explore things with her. Pete anxiously loosens his tie as he approaches the rose ceremony.
Pete worries about the hurt he’s causing to these women that he “does trust and does value.” He feels like they’re going to get up and walk on him, and he says he doesn’t know what he’s going to do. And we won’t find out what he’s going to do until next week.
Over the credits, we watch Victoria F. and Pete shoot hoops. He is inept and she’s not half bad at it.
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Several favorites emerged from the pack—from wily Kelley, a lawyer who briefly met Pete in the lobby of a hotel they’d both been and who doesn’t mind playing dirty, to good-girl Kelly P., a woman with an former addict mother and a delicate stomach.
Kelley managed to win the first challenge and soar off with Pete through the friendly skies, but it was Madison who scored the first intimate solo date with Pete—a trip to his parents’ vow-renewal ceremony.
But none of the women so far hold a candle to Hannah B., whose pop-in to hand Pete back his pilot wing pin resulted in mixed feelings for Pete—and, when she subjected a group of newbies to some rather awkward paces during a group date at his request, she broke down.
Old feelings bubbled up—and smeared Hannah B.’s makeup—as she admitted it wasn’t easy watching Pete flirt with other women. Did she regret picking Jed? Kind-of-sort-of, she told him, which was enough to get Pete to offer Hannah B. a spot on the season.
But will Hannah accept? Reactions leaked by this week’s preview suggest that the dramatic anger the women have in store for the situation that she will. What does that mean for the show?
Chris Harrison previewed for US Magazine that the season finale of the show is “gut-wrenching,” and added that “Inevitably, something happens we’ve never dealt with before.”
Hannah’s had some other critics poking fun at her this past week. Country singer Jake Owen wrote the song “Alabama Hannah,” delivered from Pete’s point of view, after watching the season premiere with his wife, and posted a clip of him singing the song to his Twitter on Thursday.
The lyrics read, in part: “Alabama Hannah, what do you want? / If it’s love that you need, well then honey, it’s gone / You had your chances, so won’t you leave me alone. / Alabama Hannah, won’t you go on back home?”
With further lyrics like “You’re a beauty queen and a dancing star and I think you’ll do just fine,” what could Brown do but pick up on the situation and have a good laugh at it?
“Well, this is one way to get a song written about you. This is some catchy shade @jakeowen,” she tweeted on Friday.
“I love Hannah Brown, she’s awesome. So it’s no diss on her,” Owen says at the end of the video. And indeed, Brown promoted the song at the end of an Instagram story.
“It’s hilarious and even though it’s like a diss at me the whole time, I was tapping my foot along to it and laughing. You need to check it out!”
“Jake, let me know when you need me for the music video,” she concluded.
But will Pete need Hannah for his own music video? And what will Chris Harrison wear? Tune in to find out!
8:09 p.m.: We open with a recap—and then head right back to the Avalon, where the windmill is still sadly rotating in the semi-dark gloom of the theater.
“I’ve never said no to you,” Pete tells a still-crying Hannah, who admits she’s done things she’s not proud of.
“I don’t know if I made the right decision with you,” Hannah says to Pete.
“This is hard,” she monologues to the camera. “I don’t know if I made the right decision for my heart.”
Meanwhile, the other women are in the mood-lit theater, the women are writing and hungrily missing Pete. Natasha has no idea how Pete feels about Hannah—and continues to feel “yuck” about the situation.
Back to the backstage. “I wanna hear and I wanna believe that,” Pete says to Hannah. But he’s asking himself, “Is she just missing the ‘what-ifs,’ not actually missing me?”
Hannah says she doesn’t know if she is either. Things are awkward. They hug. They nuzzle. In voiceover, the women monologue about wanting a connection with Pete but want him to be focused on them.
At last, Pete says, “I can’t do this.” After more hugging, Pete is covered in sparkles. But he declares he has to go back to the girls. After hugging Hannah even more.
Pete monologues to the camera about his confused heart. “I guess it’s okay to feel this way,” he says, while pacing. “I don’t know if I can just feel that love with someone else.”
8:28 p.m.: Pete is still pacing at the other end of the commercial.
Cut to the women.
“We’re having a rose ceremony tomorrow, and I’m really hope that today gives him that clarity with us that he’s ready and he wants to commit to a relationship,” said Sydney. Mykenna tearfully concurs in a to-camera.
Pete gathers the women and tells the women that Hannah is here. He talks about Hannah’s feeling emotional and the discussion they had. He apologizes, and says that he doesn’t think they can continue the group date because of his headspace.
“I feel horrible, because this isn’t fair to all of you at all,” he says. He says that he wants to try it over again at the cocktail party tonight.
The women are all angry, especially Natasha and Sydney. “I’ll see you guys at the cocktail party—will we, though?” Natasha asks Sydney.
“Is he really ready for this?” Sydney monologues to the camera.
Natasha is still angry about him skipping out on the date. “The f**king nerve!” Natasha says to the other women.
Pete arrives to apologize again, and says that they’ll enjoy tonight.
“I had no idea the date was going to turn out the way it did,” Pete said. The women accept his apology.
Natasha is angry and angry enough to be visibly so. “Just get it out, I am feeling it off the bat,” he tells Natasha, who admits she’s upset with him.
“I can tell you’re disappointed and frustrated,” Pete says. “You are so… direct. But I love that!” Pete says of Natasha. He adds that he loves her badass persona.
Then Pete spends a little alone time with Mykenna—who convinces him to dance—and kiss her. He also also has a meeting of the minds with Alexa and Sydney.
Pete gives the date night rose to Sydney, which, to Mykenna, means she has to step it up tomorrow before the rose ceremony.
8:38 p.m.: The women are reunited for the rose ceremony. Natasha is still bitter about the previous day, and assures the other women they missed nothing because of the precious little time they got to spend with him.
“The girls are a little frantic, especially the ones who haven’t had time with him,” Tammy says. But Pete endeavors to give each of the girls some face time.
Back at the house, Pete and Lexi spends time with and gives her a gift—the keys to her car. She says she understands his reaction, and they make out.
Kelsey has been saving a bottle of champagne from her birthday to share with Pete and is determined to drink it with him. “The bottle shows my heart and what I want… I want to have a husband, I want to have a family.”
But Mykenna sweeps Pete aside before he and Kelsey can share a bit of the bubbly. Victoria F. and Kelsey are ticked off and annoyed. It’s Kelsey who confronts Mykenna with her frustration and anger.
“I had something planned so I want to do it quickly,” said Mykenna.
“That’s bullsh*t,” says Kelsey, who’s angry about what little time she’s gotten with Pete. “You disrespected me,” she says to Mykenna, whom she accuses of not caring.
“I do,” Mykenna says, and Kelsey does not believe her.
“Don’t expect my sympathy and don’t expect anyone else’s sympathy,” said Kelsey, who later calls Mykenna “snakey” during her on-camera. “I don’t tolerate snakes, they’re really stupid animals.”
8:47 p.m.: “It seems like we’ve been dating for a year,” says Pete to Madison, with whom he has couched some alone time. “Mom loves you, dad loves you.” He presents her with a gift—a framed picture of her with his family. Madison is touched, and kisses him.
Kelsey hopes to grab some time with Pete after all, and gets some cheekbone highlighter. But while Kelsey is distracted with the other women, Hannah Ann leads Pete to the bottle of champagne and grabs it to pop open.
And then there is hooting and a popping sound.
“I heard a pop,” says Kelsey, and she and the other women agree.
Kelsey has an instant meltdown as she realizes what happened. Tammy tries to comfort her, but when she approaches the scene she sees that Pete and Hannah Ann are indeed slugging away at her special brew. She walks away, crying in disappointment.
8:56 p.m.: “That was supposed to be my moment and she took that from me!” sobs Kelsey. She goes back to confront them both.
“I had no idea, I would have never done that,” Hannah Ann says, but Kelsey doesn’t believe her. Pete sweeps Kelsey away to diffuse the situation.
“I did not steal her bottle, I had no idea,” Hannah Ann defends herself to the other women.
“Apparently there was a mix-up of the champagne,” Hannah Ann notes, as Pete and Kelsey find another bottle, which spills and shatters on the patio.
Kelsey, between sobs, finally gets her boozy moment with Pete as the other women hoot and watch.
“That’s my girl,” yells Tammy.
Kelsey tries to slug from the bottle and spills it all over herself. “Oh no!” Pete says, and tries to mop her up, but she’s done with everything.
“I’m over it,” sobs Kelsey in her confessional.
“You know what you did, don’t talk to me,” Kelsey tells Hannah Ann. “You are fake, and I know what you did, and I’m not about that,” Kelsey said. “I’m real and you’re calculated, that’s the difference between us.” Kelsey declares herself tired of Hannah Ann’s “princessy bullsh*t.”
“I have acknowledged your feelings and I have apologized,” Hannah Ann said, as Kelsey accuses her of lying.
“I don’t want to be involved in this champagne crisis anymore!” Tammy says, as the second rose ceremony commences.
9:10 p.m.: “Emotions are running higher tonight because Peter is such a catch,” observes Jasmine.
Pete says that he’s been enjoying his time with all of them and then the ceremony begins.
“I don’t know if he believes I’m telling the truth,” Hannah Ann monologues. “It was a big misunderstanding,” she says about champagne bottle-gate.
“F**k that,” says Kelsey on Hannah Ann getting a rose, as Shiann says that Kelsey’s reaction was dramatic.
“Who doesn’t want to be Mrs. Weber? We all do,” Courtney says.
Mykenna, Victoria P., Natasha, Kelley, Jasmine, Sarah, Lexi, Hannah Ann, Alexa, Tammy, Alayah, Victoria F., Madison, Shiann, Kiarra, Deandara, Savannah and Kelsey all get roses, and Kelsey mumbles that he always picks her last.
Eliminated: Courtney, Lauren, Payton
9:23 p.m.: The girls are decompressing when a notice for the next group date comes through.
Alexa, Natasha, Mykenna, Deandra, Lexi, Victoria F., Kelsey and Hannah Ann are selected for the next group date—which is modeling in a Revolve fashion show with Carson Kressley and Janice Dickinson judging them.
“Style, technique and personality,” are important, according to Dickinson. The winning girl wins everything in the Revolve “closet” - everything the brand makes.
“Ready, steady, slay!” yells Dickinson. The women scatter to lay out their outfits and prepare to strut the runway.
“This is like Pretty Woman,” says Natasha. “But not the bad parts.”
Victoria F. confesses she’s nervous, while Lexi promises she has a “surprise” under her outfit for Pete.
“I hate it, ‘cause I feel overwhelmed,” Victoria F. admits, and tries not to cry, but later does in front of the other girls, feeling insecure.
9:38 p.m.: “It’s a girl’s dream,” Mykenna, who plans hair flips and a shoulder toss during her walk. As the women get ready, the audience settles in.
Carson Kressley introduces the runway show—and says the women will be walking twice, once in a daytime look, once in an evening look.
“Boyfriends are temporary, cashmere is forever,” Kressley tells the camera.
“Very excited to see the women walk the runway and show off their personalities,” Pete says.
Mykenna stomps the runway with attitude and flair. “I feel like this is me,” she says.
Chelsea has rather less personality. “It’s like a good meal without salt and pepper,” says Kressley of her form.
While Dickinson notes that some of the girls might wave and wink at Pete, “that’s not what we’re looking for, we’re looking for something we’ve never seen before,” she said.
Hannah Ann walks the runway in a wedding gown, earning some eye rolls as she throws her veil at Pete.
Victoria F. is backstage freaking out, but manages a walk with charm and panache. Many of the girls pick lingerie looks, though Hannah Ann goes for a miniskirt.
“Confidence has been the biggest struggle for me.” Victoria F. says, after noting Hannah Ann’s confidence. “I think the big discovery for me is that I’m a little confident,” she says—and then walks the runway in a teddy and robe, after which she pulls Pete up out of the audience and gives him a kiss.
Victoria F. and Hannah Ann are named finalists, and challenged to a walk-off. Victoria F. says it’s the first time she’s felt noticed by Pete.
“I’m going to win this bitch,” says Victoria F. “I swear to God.”
The two women walk the runway in identical gowns, and Hannah Ann takes some extra time to grandstand at the end of the runway.
Hannah Ann wins the contest and is presented with all of the outfits Revolve makes.
Afterward, Victoria F. feels defeated, as if she can’t compete with Hannah Ann, and confesses as much while crying to Kelsey about it.
9:49 p.m.: Pete gathers the women for dinner, and toasts their performance on the runway.
“I didn’t care about any of it, I just wanted him to see me,” Victoria F. says. She says she’ll never be the girl who’s the center of attention.
Pete takes her aside to comforts her alone. “It’s very endearing to me that this is not easy for you,” he tells her. He also tells her she’s beautiful and kisses her.
“I thought today was so much fun,” Mykenna says. She and Hannah Ann affirm that today feels like a “breath of fresh air” after yesterday.
Kelsey and Pete sit down with a new bottle of champagne and this time they sip it “classily,” in Pete’s words, out of champagne flutes.
Hannah Ann watches them, and calls Kelsey a bully.
“It upsets me that Peter doesn’t know about that side of Kelsey,” says Hannah Ann.
10:07 p.m.: Hannah Ann and Pete have a confab to iron things out and Hannah does tattle about Kelsey’s attitude. They end up making out.
“I really like you,” he declares mid-kisses.
“I’m feeling much better after speaking with Peter. I feel like we’re in a good place,” she says.
“I could be getting a rose tonight,” Kelsey says, as she vows to focus on “mine and Peter’s” relationship.
“We had some good conversations tonight, and I’m going to hold on to that.”
He gives the date night rose to Victoria F., while Hannah Ann looks on in shock.
Pete asks Kelsey if he can speak to her in private. While the other women wonder what this is about, they wander into privacy.
Pete says that Hannah Ann told him that she feels like she’s being “bullied” by Kelsey because of the bitch/princess comments.
“I don’t like her, she knows that,” said Kelsey. “Because she can turn it on. She acts a certain way to you and a different way to the house. I take my character very seriously.”
“So when she tells me you’re bullying her, that’s not the case?” Pete asked.
“No, it’s just not fair,” said Kelsey, who says that Hannah’s insistence that she’s being “malicious” “sucks.”
Pete says he doesn’t know what to do or who to believe.
“I don’t think she understands what the word ‘bully’ means,” Kelsey, who has been bullied before, says.
Victoria F. comforts Kelsey who is upset Hannah Ann brought this up to Pete. Hannah Ann sits stiffly and stares straight ahead while Kelsey goes to cry in the ladies’ room.
“The drama messes with every single one of us,” says Mykenna.
While Pete walks moodily into the night and tries to figure out what’s happening, we go to previews, in which Hannah is still a champagne stealer and there’s a pillow fight. And there’s a preview of the group trip to Santiago, Chile. However, much of the preview came from episode 1.
Over the credits, we watch Janice Dickinson pump the girls for in-house drama.
“You have to serve it!” she advises Victoria F. and Natasha, and adds they should “poison” the other contestants.
