The Future of the Franchise Part 1 with Kaity Biggar and Caelynn Bell
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Bachelorette has been cancelled, the franchise is in disarray, what could possibly happen next?? Ashley has called in Kaity Biggar and Caelynn Bell to help figure out where things could go for Bachelor Nation.
What will become of Taylor Frankie Paul’s contestants? Will there be another season of Paradise? What would a “major reset” look like?
Plus, we hear suggestions for a lead that could save the entire franchise!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHartRadio. |
| 0:10.1 | Today on the podcast, guys, I have Kailen Bell and Katie Bigger joining me to talk about all the |
| 0:18.4 | headlines that have emerged over the past five days since the |
| 0:24.7 | Bachelorette was canceled. And I say canceled, even though technically it's possibly on hold |
| 0:31.2 | because ABC spokespeople have never used the word canceled. Canceled is a strong word. |
| 0:36.9 | That means that it would never be able to air anywhere. |
| 0:40.4 | Katie, Kalyn, I'm happy to have you guys here breaking this down with me. |
| 0:45.4 | Katie, you did make a comment on a red carpet a couple days ago about this. |
| 0:50.2 | Can you repeat for the audience your general consensus on the cancellation? |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah. I think so what I said on the red carpet was essentially just me saying that I think |
| 1:02.7 | that Bachelor just needs to go back to the roots and find people that genuinely want to fall in love. |
| 1:07.5 | And I do understand that the franchise was kind of going downhill and I understand |
| 1:13.1 | why they chose Taylor Frankie Paul as The Bachelorette for views because she brings a different |
| 1:19.3 | element that we haven't necessarily seen before. But I think what she brings is like chaos and drama. |
| 1:26.7 | And I think they kind of lost sight of the whole |
| 1:30.4 | like reason why they started The Bachelor I feel like I think they were just like looking for |
| 1:35.5 | views more than anything and I remember being on the show and they genuinely like I genuinely |
| 1:43.0 | felt like they did want you to fall in love they wanted |
| 1:46.7 | the lead to fall in love and be with the right person and they kind of helped like assist that but like |
| 1:52.2 | I just felt like we've we've lost a little bit of that what I thought we really needed was a |
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