BBs! This week is the last week of dates before HOMETOWNS! Is it just me or did this season absolutely fly by??? This week we are in the gorgeous, the beautiful, the v rainy Scotland! Jesse announces that there will be no roses on the dates this week.
Juliana 1-1
Grant and Juliana take a helicopter ride to a HUGE castle where a royal valet named Calum meets them and invites them in for the day. A stylist then styles Juliana and Grant. First they put on traditional Scottish tartans. Then period clothing from the Regency era, then finally, modern formal wear. J looks beautiful in a hot pink gown (but someone needs to do her hair for her, it’s giving a bit of bed head), and G is in a smart tuxedo. They go to a ballroom where there are loads of ballroom dancers and they dance and it’s all v romantic and fairy tale- esque. Swoon!!! At Fake Dinner G gives J a sparkly necklace and J shares that she had a family member growing up who was dealing with addiction, so she spent a lot of her childhood alone and her “bubbly” personality is mostly a coping mechanism. She apologizes for not having a traditional family and look, WHO DOES??? Over 50% of marriages in this country end in divorce. NO ONE has a “traditional” upbringing anymore so I REALLY want people to stop apologizing for that!!! Also, it’s NOT YOUR FAULT what kind of family you were born into! Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Group Date
Zoe is devastated that she didn’t get a one on one date but she puts on a smile for the group date while Carolina is complaining AGAIN. LAWD this girl! The group goes to another castle for Scottish Highland Games and Fair. While everyone is having fun with Grant, Carolina is sulking all by herself. Of course G notices and pulls her aside to ask what is wrong. Of course Carolina starts crying and complaining again. And of course this means that Carolina is monopolizing G’s time for most of the day. Again. So the girls are all v peeved at this. Again. Once G and Carolina rejoin the group it starts to rain so the Fair, and therefore the date, is over! That night Dina and Sarafiena confront Carolina about her behavior today and, yet again, Carolina acts like she hasn’t done a thing wrong and it’s all Grant who’s choosing to spend all his time with her. The girls are still upset with Carolina, esp Dina who went to bat for Carolina and defended her last week. When it’s Dina’s turn to have some time with Grant, she tells G all that Carolina’s been doing in a v diplomatic way.
Litia 1-1
Grant and Litia spend the day walking around Edinburgh. They learn that the term Tying the Knot originated in Scotland. It comes from the Scottish wedding tradition of handfasting, an ancient Celtic ritual that involves tying a couple’s hands together. Love that! They have Fake Dinner in a castle dining room where Litia shares that she is Mormon and that she’s NEVER dated outside of her faith! Wonder how that’s going to go with her family? Grant has tattoos and earrings and concerns about how her family would accept him. Grant shares with Litia why he’s so determined to have a family of his own and that as a child he’d go to his room and eat dinner alone to escape his family drama. He starts crying, and is so emotional sharing this.
There’s no cocktail party this week, so we go straight to the rose ceremony. But before it starts, Carolina pulls Dina to chat and they bury the hatchet.
Litia, Juliana, Dina, and Zoe (ugh) get roses in that order. Going home are Carolina (yay!), Sarafiena (I like her but didn’t see any chemistry between them), and Alexe. SAD FACE!!! Love Alexe! She’s so sweet and fun. Whomp whomp.
Next week is hometowns BBs! One of my favorite episodes! I can’t wait!!! Until then, xo 🌹
Bless Your Heart 