Original network ABC Number of episodes 12 (including 2 specials) | Air date May 18, 2009 Country of origin United States of America | |
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No. of episodes 12 (including 2 specials) Original release May 18 (2009-05-18) – July 27, 2009 (2009-07-27) Winner | ||
The fifth season of the ABC reality television series The Bachelorette began on May 18, 2009 with a two-hour premiere. The show features Jillian Harris, an interior designer from Peace River, Alberta, Canada, courting 30 men, added from five in previous seasons. This was the first time in The Bachelor and The Bachelorette franchise with 30 suitors. Harris was rejected by Jason Mesnick in the thirteenth season of The Bachelor; she was the second runner-up.
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Harris is the first ever non-American selected for The Bachelorette as she is from Canada. (Jesse Palmer, Matt Grant, and Lorenzo Borghese of The Bachelor alumni are the other non-Americans in the show's franchise), and chose Ed Swiderski in the finale. The couple were engaged but broke their engagement in July 2010.
Future appearances
7th placer Jake Pavelka later chosen as the bachelor in the fourteenth season of The Bachelor, entitled On the Wings of Love. Pavelka later appeared in the tenth season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Chelsie Hightower and finished in 7th place. Runner-up Kiptyn Locke, along with other finalists Juan Barbieri, David Good, Wes Hayden and Jesse Kovacs were returned for the inaugural season of Bachelor Pad. They finished individually in 18th/19th, 12th/13th, 5th/6th, while Locke finished as runner-up with Bachelor Nation alumna Tenley Molzahn and Good finished as co-winner with Bachelor Nation alumna Natalie Getz. Pavelka returned again in the second season of Bachelor Pad with Michael Stagliano, Pavelka finished 13th and Stagliano won the competition with Bachelor Nation alumna Holly Durst. Stagliano would return again for the second time on the third season of Bachelor Pad with Ed Swiderski and Reid Rosenthal, where Stagliano finished 11th, Swiderski in 5th/6th, and Rosenthal in 15th/16th. Kovacs would again return in the inaugural season of Bachelor in Paradise and finished in 14th.
Call-out order
Death of Julien Hug
On November 3, 2010 Harris mourned the death of Julien Hug on her Twitter page. The 35-year-old Hug was discovered dead on a remote stretch of land off a Californian highway on Wednesday. Harris paid tribute to Hug, saying, "Please say a prayer for the loss of a friend this morning. Life is fragile, don't forget to love the ones you love", before adding, "It's very difficult to find the words to express my condolences. But I will always remember Julien's gentle demeanor and kind heart, which will be sadly missed."