The Bachelor (American season 9)

The Bachelor: Rome
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	7
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	October 3, 2006 (2006-10-03) – November 27, 2006 (2006-11-27)

The Bachelor: Season 9 (also known as The Bachelor: Rome) is the ninth season of ABC reality television series The Bachelor. The show was filmed in Rome, Italy. The season premiered on October 3, 2006. The show featured Italian American cosmetics entrepreneur, Prince Lorenzo Borghese, counting 25 women.

Contestants

Traditionally the Bachelor chooses from an original cast of 25 bachelorettes, however this season show producers brought in two additional ladies who are local Italians bringing the total women to 27.

The following is the list of bachelorettes for this season:

Name	Age	Hometown	Occupation	Eliminated
Jennifer Wilson	24	Pembroke Pines, FL	Teacher	Winner
Sadie Murray	23	Carlsbad, CA	Publicist	Week 7
Lisa Blank	25	Portland, OR	Marketing manager	Week 6
Agnese Polliza	24	Venice, Italy	Student	Week 5
Jeanette Pawula	23	Bloomingdale, IL	Teacher	Week 4
Desiree Valentin	22	Salt Lake City, UT	Realtor	Week 4
Jami Matzke	27	Galveston, TX	Event planner	Week 3
Gina Clark	28	Chicago, IL	Ultrasound technician	Week 3
Erica Rose	23	Houston, TX	Socialite	Week 3
Sarah Schnare	30	Nelson, BC	Journalist	Week 2
Kim Jackson	27	Newport Beach, CA	Interior designer	Week 2
Ellen DeMaio	30	New Haven, CT	Realtor	Week 2
Tara Durr	24	St. Augustine, FL	Realtor	Week 1
Rosella Fratto	27	Chicago, IL	Make-up artist	Week 1
Rita Ghazal	29	Richmond, VA	Policy advisor	Week 1
Renee Snell	30	Baltimore, MD	Broadcast marketer	Week 1
Meri Barr	27	Biloxi, MS	Attorney	Week 1
Laura Morgan	29	San Diego, CA	Dolphin trainer	Week 1
Jessica Horner	25	Charlotte, NC	Assistant buyer	Week 1
Heather Sneed	34	Aliquippa, PA	Registered nurse	Week 1
Elyse Greenebaum	27	New York, NY	Physician	Week 1
Cosetta Blanca		Italy	Dancer	Week 1
Claudia Gismondi	22	Boca Raton, FL	Restaurateur	Week 1
Carissa Ilburg	25	Cattaraugus, NY	Attorney	Week 1
Brit Keeder	28	Columbus, OH	Beer chemist	Week 1
Andrea Shirley	28	Cincinnati, OH	Hotel concierge	Week 1
April Jacobs	23	Chicago, IL	Model	Week 1

Future appearances

Erica Rose returned to compete in the second season of Bachelor Pad for 2011, finished in 9th/10th place and returned in the third season of Bachelor Pad the following year for a third time, finished in 12th place.

Elimination Chart

Contestants	Week
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Agnese	Sadie	Desiree	Agnese	Jennifer	Lisa	Sadie	Jennifer
Andrea	Agnese	Jeanette	Lisa	Agnese	Sadie	Jennifer	Sadie
April	Desiree	Lisa	Jeanette	Sadie	Jennifer	Lisa
Brit	Gina	Gina	Jennifer	Lisa	Agnese
Carissa	Sarah	Jami	Sadie	Jeanette
Claudia	Ellen	Agnese	Desiree	Desiree
Cosetta	Jennifer	Erica	Jami
Desiree	Lisa	Jennifer	Gina
Ellen	Jeanette	Sadie	Erica
Elyse	Jami	Sarah
Erica	Erica	Kim
Gina	Kim	Ellen
Heather	Tara
Jami	Rosella
Jeanette	Rita
Jennifer	Renee
Jessica	Meri
Kim	Laura
Laura	Jessica
Lisa	Heather
Meri	Elyse
Renee	Cosetta
Rita	Claudia
Rosella	Carissa
Sadie	Brit
Sarah	Andrea
Tara	April

     The contestant won the competition.

     The contestant was eliminated at the rose ceremony.

Episodes

Episode 1

The girls pull up in a limo as Lorenzo greets each one with a smile. The girls and Lorenzo talk all night and the show ends with a rose ceremony where Lorenzo sends home over half of the ladies.

Episode 2

The remaining 12 women are divided up into single and group dates. Lisa received the first single date with Lorenzo. The other girls go on a group date with Lorenzo. The show ends with a rose ceremony and 3 girls are eliminated.

Episode 3

The nine remaining Bachelorettes find out there's going to be a group date, a two-on-one date and a solo date with Lorenzo. Three ladies are eliminated at the rose ceremony.

Episode 4

There is one group date and two one-on-one dates in this episode. The women who get roses this week will also get a hometown visit to have Lorenzo meet their parents. Two ladies are eliminated at the rose ceremony.

Episode 5

Lorenzo proceeds to on the hometown dates with the bachelorettes. He meets the girl's families. Lorenzo eliminates one girl at the rose ceremony which leaves him with three girls for the remaining shows.

Episode 6

Episode 7

The winner

Jennifer Wilson was the eventual winner of "The Bachelor: Rome". As of the end of the show, Jennifer was a Glades Middle School teacher from Pembroke Pines. Jennifer graduated from Dade Christian School and the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in general studies.

After the show

Jennifer Wilson and Lorenzo Borghese broke up after a long-distance relationship where he was in New York while she was in South Florida. Lorenzo did not propose to Jennifer, but gave her the final rose. Jennifer Wilson was accused of secretly dating Dan Herrero, another teacher at the school she worked at, by The National Enquirer soon after the end of the show. The Enquirer included pictures of them "frolicking on the beach" together three days after the initial report. Lorenzo Borghese later began dating runner-up Sadie Murray. Erica Rose later appeared on season one of VH1's "You're Cut Off" and seasons 2 and 3 of Bachelor Pad.

External links

• ABC Official Site of The Bachelor: Rome