| Season Number: | 10 | ||||||
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| Starring: | Andrew Baldwin | ||||||
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| Network: | ABC | ||||||
| Num Episodes: | 9 | ||||||
| Episode List: | List of The Bachelor (American TV series) episodes |
The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman is the tenth season of ABC reality television series The Bachelor. The show was filmed in Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania, and premiered on April 2, 2007. This season features the first US Navy Officer, 30-year-old Andy Baldwin from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The season concluded on May 21, 2007, Baldwin choosing to propose to 26-year-old social worker Tessa Horst. Horst became the first winner of Asian descent in the Bachelor franchise. The couple soon ended their engagement and briefly resumed dating, but finally broke up for good later that year.
The following is the list of bachelorettes for this season:[1] [2]
| Name | Age | Hometown | Occupation | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tessa Horst | 26 | Social Worker | Winner | |
| 28 | Palo Alto, California | Assistant | Week 8 | |
| Danielle Imwalle | 25 | Bethel, Connecticut | Graphic Designer | Week 7 |
| Amber Alchalabi | 23 | Sugar Land, Texas | Teacher | Week 6 |
| Stephanie Wilhite | 23 | Overland Park, Kansas | Project Manager | Week 5 |
| Tina Wu | 26 | Lenox Hill, New York | Medical student | |
| Kate Brockhouse | 24 | Ravenel, South Carolina | Boutique owner | Week 4 |
| Nicole Clary | 26 | Charleston, South Carolina | Sales Manager | |
| Stephanie Tipper | 27 | Folly Beach, South Carolina | ||
| Amanda Hackney | 26 | Dallas, Texas | Financial analyst | Week 3 |
| Erin Parker | 24 | Logansport, Louisiana | Financial analyst | |
| Peyton Wright | 24 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Sorority recruiter | |
| Alexis Young | 26 | Southlake, Texas | Attorney | Week 2 |
| Susan Anderson | 23 | The Woodlands, Texas | Boutique manager | |
| Tiffany Warren | 28 | Boston, Massachusetts | Medical equipment sales rep | |
| Blakeney Rowe | 29 | Birmingham, Alabama | Radio sales | Week 1 |
| Candice DeCost | 23 | Hilton Head Island, South Carolina | Waitress | |
| Catherine Warren | 23 | Lake Forest, Illinois | Former Miss Illinois | |
| Danielle Vallis | 26 | The Bronx, New York | Attorney | |
| Jacqueline "Jackie" Topelli | 23 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Executive coordinator | |
| Jeanette Alvarez | 27 | Tampa, Florida | Health care manager | |
| Jessica Devallo | 32 | New York, New York | Hedge fund analyst | |
| Linda Malek | 33 | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio | Attorney | |
| Lindsay Smith | 22 | Lawrence, Kansas | Student | |
| Tiffany Forester | 27 | St. Louis Park, Minnesota | Real estate sales/development | |
Peyton Wright returned to compete for the first season of Bachelor Pad. She and her partner Jesse Beck were eliminated in week 5, finishing in 7th/8th.
| Bachelorettes | Week | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 1 | Alexis | Stephanie T. | Stephanie T. | Bevin | Amber | Bevin | Tessa | Bevin | Tessa |
| 2 | Nicole | Peyton | Tessa | Tessa | Tessa | Amber | Bevin | Tessa | Bevin |
| 3 | Amanda | Bevin | Danielle I. | Amber | Danielle I. | Tessa | |||
| 4 | Peyton | Kate | Bevin | Danielle I. | Bevin | Danielle I. | Amber | ||
| 5 | Catherine | Alexis | Amber | Tina | Tina | ||||
| 6 | Amber | Danielle I. | Tina | ||||||
| 7 | Blakeney | Amber | Kate | Kate | Kate Nicole Stephanie T. | ||||
| 8 | Danielle V. | Tiffany W. | Nicole | Nicole | |||||
| 9 | Jackie | Tessa | Tina | Stephanie T. | |||||
| 10 | Nicole | Peyton | Amanda | ||||||
| 11 | Tina | Susan | Amanda | Erin | |||||
| 12 | Erin | Amanda | Erin | Peyton | |||||
| 13 | Susan | Erin | Alexis Susan | ||||||
| 14 | Stephanie T. | Tina | |||||||
| 15 | Danielle I. | Tiffany W. | |||||||
| 16 | Bevin | Blakeney Candice Catherine Danielle V. Jackie Jeanette Jessica Linda Lindsay Tiffany F. | |||||||
| 17 | Tessa | ||||||||
| 18 | Candice | ||||||||
| 19 | Jeanette | ||||||||
| 20 | Lindsay | ||||||||
| 21 | Kate | ||||||||
| 22 | Linda | ||||||||
| 23 | Tiffany F. | ||||||||
| 24 | Jessica | ||||||||
| 25 | Tiffany W. | ||||||||
The contestant received the first impression rose.
The contestant was eliminated at the rose ceremony.
The contestant received a rose on a date.
The contestant was eliminated on a date.
The contestant won the competition.
See also: List of The Bachelor (American TV series) episodes.
Tessa Horst grew up in Washington, D.C., where she graduated from Georgetown Day School in 1999 and Middlebury College in 2003. She received her MS degree in social work from Columbia University.[3] Prior to entering graduate studies, Horst lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 2004, where she was employed at the famous Silver Dollar Bar of The Wort Hotel.[4] [5] At the time she competed on The Bachelor, she was employed as a social worker living in San Francisco.[6]
Three months after the finale, Horst and Baldwin called off the engagement.[7]