The Bachelor · A Viewer's Companion
It isn’t a family tree. It’s a bracket — twenty-five women, eight weeks, one rose at a time.
Twenty-five people arrive on the same night, dressed alike, lit alike, and introduced in about nine seconds each — and then most of them vanish before you’ve learned a name. So this chart drops the bloodlines and charts the tournament instead: Grant Ellis at the top, then each round of eliminations narrowing down the page to the two women left on the final night. Border colour is how far she got, the number on the ring is the week she left, and the gold line running down the middle is the season itself, ending in a proposal.
Six things that make the bracket make sense
The Bachelor has a rulebook it never explains out loud. Here it is.
A rose means you survive the week
Every week the women go on group dates (many women, one rose handed out during the date) and one-on-ones (a single woman, a rose at dinner or not at all). Whoever has no rose by the end of the week faces the rose ceremony, where Grant hands out exactly as many roses as there are places left. If your name isn’t called, you leave that night. That’s the entire engine of the show: a shrinking number of roses, week after week.
The first impression rose
On the premiere, before any elimination, the Bachelor may hand one woman a rose purely on the strength of meeting her — the first impression rose. It guarantees safety at the first ceremony and marks her as an early favourite. Grant gave his to Alexe Godin. She lasted until week 5. Across the franchise the first impression rose is a strong signal but not a guarantee — it goes to the eventual winner only some of the time.
Hometowns, then fantasy suites
Hometowns (week 6) is the round where the final four take Grant home to meet their families — the first time anyone outside the show gets a vote. Grant travelled to Newton, Massachusetts; Star Valley, Wyoming; Chicago and New York. Dina Lupancu was eliminated at the end of it. The final three then go to fantasy suites (week 7, in the Dominican Republic): a private overnight date with no cameras, meant for the conversations you can’t have on a group date. Zoe McGrady went home after that round.
How this finale ended
The finale aired March 24, 2025, live in front of a studio audience with host Jesse Palmer. Grant’s final two were Litia Garr and Juliana Pasquarosa. He said goodbye to Litia, then proposed to Juliana with a Neil Lane ring, and she accepted. This chart stops there — it’s a record of what happened on screen, not of anyone’s life afterwards.
Nobody arrives from nowhere
Bachelor Nation is one loop of casting. Grant Ellis was himself a contestant on The Bachelorette — season 21, Jenn Tran’s — and was announced as the next Bachelor the same night his elimination aired. In the other direction, six women from this season went on to Bachelor in Paradise season 10: Alexe Godin, Alli Jo Hinkes, Allyshia Gupta, Bailey Brown, Parisa Shifteh and Zoe McGrady. If a face here looks familiar from another show, that’s why.
The season moves, and that’s your clock
Losing track of which week you’re in? Follow the passport. Weeks 1–3 are the mansion in Agoura Hills / Los Angeles. Week 4 is Madrid. Week 5 is Edinburgh. Week 6 is the cross-country hometowns run. Weeks 7 and 8 are the Dominican Republic. Each move up the list means roughly half the remaining women are already gone.
The name decoder
Twenty-five people, one lighting setup, and several names that rhyme. Keep these apart:
Two Guptas — not related
Radhika Gupta is the attorney from Floral Park, New York, who went home on night one. Allyshia Gupta is the interior designer from Wesley Chapel, Florida, and Miss California USA 2020, eliminated in week 2. Same surname, different women, different weeks.
Rose is a person
Rose Sombke, a registered nurse from Rockford, Illinois. When the show says “Rose,” check whether it means the flower or the nurse. She left the competition of her own accord in week 4.
Juliana vs. Litia — the final two
Juliana Pasquarosa, 28, client service associate from Newton, Massachusetts — the one Grant proposed to. Litia Garr, 31, venture capitalist from Star Valley, Wyoming — the runner-up. Both are on the chart’s bottom row in rose red.
Dina vs. Zoe — the other half of the final four
Dina Lupancu, attorney, Willowbrook, Illinois — out at the end of hometowns week. Zoe McGrady, engineer and model, Chester, Virginia — out one round later, after fantasy suites. Third and fourth place, in that order.
Alexe vs. Ella
Alexe Godin — the Canadian speech therapist who took the first impression rose on night one and lasted to week 5. Ella Del Rosario — the luxury travel host from Los Angeles, eliminated in week 2. Short names, very different runs.
Carolina vs. Chloie
Carolina Quixano, a public relations producer from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, eliminated in week 5 — the round that set the final four. Chloie Costello, a model from Mission Hills, Kansas, eliminated two rounds earlier in week 3.
Grant vs. Joey vs. Jenn
Grant Ellis is this season’s Bachelor. Joey Graziadei is the previous Bachelor (season 28) and turns up during hometowns week to give Grant advice. Jenn Tran led the Bachelorette season Grant competed on. All three appear on screen this season; only one is handing out roses.
Why the episode numbers don’t match the weeks
Episode 7 was “The Women Tell All,” a reunion with no eliminations, so the week 7 fantasy-suites round is actually the eighth episode and the week 8 finale is the ninth. The chart uses week numbers, which is what the show says on screen.
Not competing — but in every episode
Jesse Palmer
Runs every rose ceremony (“ladies, Grant, take a moment”), the Women Tell All, and the live finale. He was himself the Bachelor, back in season 5.
Jenn Tran
Grant was a contestant on her season and was eliminated in week 6 — and ABC announced him as the next Bachelor the night that episode aired.
Joey Graziadei
Drops in during hometowns week to talk Grant through the last stretch — the franchise’s standard move of sending in the man who did this a year ago.
Scope: this page charts Season 29 of The Bachelor — Grant Ellis’s season, which aired on ABC from January 27 to March 24, 2025. It was the most recent completed season when this page was written; a thirtieth season has been announced for the 2026–27 television year. Everything stated here is drawn from what aired: who received the first impression rose, who was eliminated in which week, and how the finale ended. These are real people, not characters, so the page deliberately stops at the finale — it records the proposal and nothing about anyone’s relationships, work or life since. Portraits are ABC’s season 29 cast photographs by way of the Bachelor Nation wiki, cropped and served from this site rather than hotlinked. Ages, hometowns and occupations are the ones given on the show.