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Best Moments from 17 Seasons of 'The Bachelor' Finales_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2015 4:45 PM UTC  Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt NilssonABC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2015 4:45 PM UTC Meet your new _Bachelorette_ _,_ America: Kaitlyn…and Britt! Last night it was announced that the popular ABC reality show couldn’t choose just one woman to escort on their journey to love, so instead the show is shaking things up—the next season will star both Britt Nilsson and Kaitlyn Bristowe, who were winnowed from the herd of women looking for love with Chris Soules on [the most recent season of _The_ _Bachelor_](http://time.com/3738378/bachelor-finale-chris-soules-becca-whitney-jimmy-kimmel-chris-harrison-farming-iowa/). One of the longest running tropes in _The Bachelor_‘s history is for host Chris Harrison to dolefully intone that there will be “a dramatic twist” that is “unlike anything in _Bachelor_ history” and will have “everyone talking.” Usually this speech precedes a particularly gruesome hissy fit or a contestant sneaking into the Bachelor’s suite for same late-night nookie (which is _so_ unfair to the other 11 women he’s dating), or someone “shockingly” turning down a rose—but all of that is pretty typical turbulence for fans of the reality show. Last night, however, Harrison’s words actually had the ring of truth to them. He announced that the producers of _The Bachelor_ were evenly split between casting Britt or Kaitlyn as the new _Bachelorette,_ and since the fan community seemed evenly divided as well, the show was going to try something new: They would cast both women. Here’s what ABC’s press release had to say about the twist: --- > “” --- So here’s what we know: the show has cast both Kaitlyn and Britt, but, much like The Highlander, there can be only one Bachelorette. Last night, Chris Harrison said something along these lines: both women will arrive at the mansion for an opening night cocktail party and then the men will decide which woman continues on her journey to love. This is what happened way back in Season 6 when _The Bachelor_ tried to boost its ratings with a similar twist. The show cast both Byron Velvick and Jay Overbye and 25 women chose between them by handing out roses to their preferred suitor during one of the show’s infamous cocktail parties. Byron earned the most roses and went on to be _The Bachelor_. [It didn’t end well](http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/bachelor-couple-byron-velvick-mary-delgado-split-2009212). Yet, the producers are trying it again. On _The Bachelor_: _After the Final Rose_, when Harrison asked Kaitlyn for her take on the twist on _The Bachelorette_ formula she admitted her first thought was: “Well, that’s not ideal.” America just might agree with that sentiment. Right now it sounds like what has ostensibly been a woman-powered show, where an empowered woman chooses her own life partner, is now becoming a show where two women compete for male attention for sport. Does America want to watch Britt and Kaitlyn enter a _Bachelor_ version of the Thunderdome where the men will decide who is showered with roses and who gets the thorns? Who knows! It doesn’t sound like ABC knows yet, either. Based on the vagueness of the press release, it seems like the network is trying to keep their options open, depending on how this twist will play out with fans. If fans are unhappy, maybe the show will decide to let both women stay and find their own paths to love on reality television—just like our fore-mothers dreamed. _The Bachelorette_ returns to ABC, on Monday, May 18. _Read next:_ [The Bachelor _Explains His Big Decision_](http://time.com/3738657/the-bachelor-chris-soules-whitney-bischoff/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) Bachelor Last Night: Bachelorette Big Twist: Kaitlyn + Britt Season 11 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3738745/bachelorette-big-twist-new-season/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3738745/bachelorette-big-twist-new-season/"},"headline":"Everything We Know About The Bachelorette's Big Twist","datePublished":"2015-03-10T16:45:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:49:36.126Z","description":"On last night's episode of The Bachelor, Kaitlyn and Britt were both chosen as the new Bachelorette","url":"https://time.com/3738745/bachelorette-big-twist-new-season/","keywords":["Television","reality television","the bachelorette","Kaitlyn Bristowe"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe85be3b903b62db/69878304cd6848840109a176/bachelorettes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe85be3b903b62db/69878304cd6848840109a176/bachelorettes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"bachelorettes","caption":"Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson","creditText":"ABC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3738745/bachelorette-big-twist-new-season/","name":"Everything We Know About The Bachelorette's Big Twist"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Best Moments from 17 Seasons of 'The Bachelor' Finales","description":"Best Moments from 17 Seasons of 'The Bachelor' Finales","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/NnE55q18/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-07T20:05:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NnE55q18.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3738745/bachelorette-big-twist-new-season/","duration":"PT3M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3738745/bachelorette-big-twist-new-season/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```