--- title: The Bachelorette Isn't Getting Any More Diverse description: The show that it wants to be is not, and never has been, a particularly diverse one. canonical: https://time.com/4258960/the-bachelor-the-bachelorette-diversity/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-15T15:52:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:54:27.186Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'The Bachelorette' Isn't Getting Any More Diverse og:description: If the franchise were going to cast anyone outside of their preferred mold, they'd have done so already og:url: https://time.com/4258960/the-bachelor-the-bachelorette-diversity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf2ca88c187c1bf/6988590535ba6f70b2c0dfea/139167_6366-900x598.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: KAITLYN BRISTOWE, JARED og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Bachelorette' Isn't Getting Any More Diverse twitter:description: If the franchise were going to cast anyone outside of their preferred mold, they'd have done so already twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf2ca88c187c1bf/6988590535ba6f70b2c0dfea/139167_6366-900x598.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _The Bachelorette'_s Casting Switch Proves the Show Isn't Going to Get More Diverse > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Mar 15, 2016 3:52 PM UTC  The Bachelorette The BacheloretteClodagh Kilcoyne—ABC  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Mar 15, 2016 3:52 PM UTC For many years, many fans of [_The Bachelor_](http://time.com/4258630/the-bachelor-finale-ben-jojo-lauren/)and _Bachelorette_ franchises have been waiting for the shows to become more diverse. Of the 20 seasons of _The Bachelor_ and 11 seasons of _The Bachelorette_, only one, Juan Pablo Galavis’s season, has starred a person of color. So it’s no wonder that hopes were high for Caila Quinn, the woman who’d previously been [reported](http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/13/470124738/what-would-it-mean-to-have-a-hapa-bachelorette) to be anchoring the next season of _The Bachelorette_. In addition to charming the franchise’s fans during her stint trying to win the heart of recent _Bachelor_ Ben Higgins, she’d also have provided a new perspective, [as the daughter of a white man and Filipina woman](http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/13/470124738/what-would-it-mean-to-have-a-hapa-bachelorette). ABC has announced, though, that the reported Quinn season is not to be; JoJo Fletcher, a white woman, will be the one handing out the roses next time. (Both Quinn and Fletcher had appeared as potential matches for Higgins on the just-concluded _Bachelor_ season, in keeping with the show’s recent habit of drawing its new stars from the pool of rejected suitors.) Good for Fletcher! But disappointed fans should blame their peers. _The Bachelor_ reflects what the viewers want, and the ratings prove people are fine without a diverse cast. As I [wrote yesterday](http://time.com/4257484/reality-tv-survivor-the-bachelor-emergency/), _The Bachelor_ has grown exhaustingly meta about fans’ criticisms of it, particularly as those fans critique the show on social media. Unlike scripted shows following a creator’s artistic vision, _The Bachelor_ has no mission but to dole out red meat to its fans. Perhaps no show is made with a more careful eye on fan expectations, up to and including the consistent casting of “fan favorites” from the largely, though not entirely, white dating pool. ABC entertainment chief Paul Lee teasing a [“diverse” bachelorette in January](http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the-bachelor-bachelorette-black-diverse-contestant-abc-1201676020/) means next to nothing given the show’s inertia (besides, he was fired shortly after the tease.) The show’s creators have taken a calculated risk that the annoyance of fans over a consistent lack of diversity will make less of a ratings impact than any divergence from the show’s particular vision of romance would. And they don’t seem to be wrong. _The Bachelor_ is still a major ratings hit and, anecdotally, seems to be talked about more than ever—it’s an asset that ABC has taken assiduous care in protecting in the most risk-averse manner possible. That casting a nonwhite Bachelor or Bachelorette would seem to have huge potential upside matters little in this calculus; at this point, if the ABC reality franchise were going to cast anyone outside of their preferred mold, they’d have done so. If no show is more aware of its faults than _The Bachelor_, no show, too, is more grudgingly tolerated by its notional fans, who rightly perceive a savvy wit beneath the retrograde racial and gender politics but who have to wade through a lot of stuff to get there. For all their flaws, competition reality series including _Survivor_, _Project Runway_, and _Top Chef_ are wildly more diverse than _The Bachelor._ Across the dial (and particularly on _The Bachelor_‘s home network, ABC!), there’s never been a more exciting time for representation on television. _The Bachelor_ and _The Bachelorette_ depict, over and over, a vision of romance that has certain particulars (ties to an idyllic heartland America, overearnest shock at just how difficult this process is, race). At a certain point—say, a combined 31 cycles in—it stops making sense to hope for any change other than, if one actually wants the possibility of a new story, a change of the channel. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4258960/the-bachelor-the-bachelorette-diversity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4258960/the-bachelor-the-bachelorette-diversity/"},"headline":"The Bachelorette's Casting Switch Proves the Show Isn't Going to Get More Diverse","datePublished":"2016-03-15T15:52:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:54:27.186Z","description":"If the ABC reality franchise were going to cast anyone outside of their preferred mold, they'd have done so already","url":"https://time.com/4258960/the-bachelor-the-bachelorette-diversity/","keywords":["Television","The Bachelor","the bachelorette"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf2ca88c187c1bf/6988590535ba6f70b2c0dfea/139167_6366-900x598.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf2ca88c187c1bf/6988590535ba6f70b2c0dfea/139167_6366-900x598.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"KAITLYN BRISTOWE, JARED","caption":"KAITLYN BRISTOWE, JARED","creditText":"Clodagh Kilcoyne—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/4258960/the-bachelor-the-bachelorette-diversity/","name":"The Bachelorette's Casting Switch Proves the Show Isn't Going to Get More Diverse"}}]}] ```