MLive.com - MI, USA - Holland's Robin Canfield was the first to receive a rose during the rose ceremony from "The Bachelor," Matt Grant, on Monday night's episode of the ABC dating reality show.

The 22-year-old advertising executive distinguished herself as being the only contestant who didn't gamble on a group date to Las Vegas. When she told Grant she didn't feel comfortable gambling for one-on-one time with him, when she didn't really know how, he set her mind at ease.

"I'm very interested in you," the Englishman said.

Canfield, who described herself on the show as a "classical musician," also sat on Grant's lap while she played

Reality TV Magazine - Scottsdale, AZ, USA - On the second episode of The Bachelor 12, Londoner Matt Grant divided the remaining 15 bachelorettes into two groups for group dates.  For the first group date, Matt took Ashley, Kristine, Marshana, Noelle, Michelle, Amanda, Erin H., and Holly to a fashion show.

To the surprise of the bachelorettes, they soon learned that they would be the models walking the catwalk.  During the fashion show, Holly moonwalked, and Amanda took her shirt off (to reveal a bikini top).  After the fashion show, Marshana questioned Matt on how he felt about interracial dating, while Michelle P. sang Matt a song that she

Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth, NH, USA - Long before a dancing Matt Grant fake humped a phone booth — then acted like he hadn’t when someone walked by — it was obvious we’d finally found the bachelor “The Bachelor” deserved.

Only took 12 tries and countless versions of Stacey, the passed-out drunk minus one pair of panties. He’s tall, handsome, charming and goofy-funny but also sensible enough to hold up the aforementioned panties and say, “I don’t give a $h!t what country you’re from, that is not cool!" Of course, he was laughing when he said it. Lots of laughs out of Matt, and his 25 ladies —

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA, USA - This season's "American Idol" scandal is detrimental to David Hernandez, as the stripper is the first singer eliminated from the Top 12. Tough luck for David. While his rendition of "I Saw Her Standing There" isn't fantastic, he's better than a handful of the other contestants during Lennon/McCartney songbook week.

Kristy Lee Cook butchers "Eight Days a Week" with her country twang, while fan-favorite David Archuleta forgets the words to "We Can Work it Out." I'm glad Chikezie has his best week yet when he rocks "She's a Woman" so hard he breaks a sweat.

"Idol" airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. and

Reality TV World - Mansfield, MA, USA - ABC has revealed the identities of the 25 women who will compete for the affection of Matt Grant on The Bachelor: London Calling, the twelfth The Bachelor installment that will premiere Monday, March 17 at 9:30PM ET/PT.


The 27-year-old "global financier" and Bishop's Stanford native represents the first international star of The Bachelor in the show's history.  According to ABC, the six-foot, five-inch blue-eyed Brit is "totally charming and [a] witty English gentleman [who] works with millionaire businessmen, but he has something on his mind that is more urgent than any business deal - he wants to find the love of

Film.com - Seattle, WA, USA - How is it that after eleven seasons and zero wedding ceremonies, The Bachelor manages to stay on the air?

The long-lasting success of this charade of a show, in which a gorgeous, young, and usually wealthy bachelor scopes out 25 prospective wives until he picks “the one,” really says something about that notion that romantics are hopeless. It seemed silly from the beginning to believe that a true romance would blossom out of a dating competition, no less one set up in front of cameras, a production crew, and, subsequently, millions of viewers. But who can really still believe in this

SheKnows.com - Scottsdale, AZ, USA - This year, "The Bachelor" goes international.  Matt Grant is a 27-year-old, 6'5", blue-eyed global financier from London and he's looking for an American woman to make his life complete.

Here's what ABC had to say about the new catch:

This totally charming and witty English gentleman works with millionaire businessmen, but he has something on his mind that is more urgent than any business deal - he wants to find the love of his life and to start a family as soon as possible. The youngest of five brothers, the rest of whom are married, he is very close to his parents