Bachelor 22 - Arie Luyendyk Jr - FAN FORUM - General Discussion - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

[GuardianAngel]

Fan Forum Discussion thread. Fan forum rules apply!

[Alanna]

I'm so excited for Arie to win over the next wave of Bach Nation watchers like he did 5 years ago. Dollars to donuts, the same people tweeting how they're unhappy and wanted someone else and don't know who he is are going to be madly in love with him themselves in due order imo.

[Emilia23_12]

I'm so excited for Arie to win over the next wave of Bach Nation watchers like he did 5 years ago. Dollars to donuts, the same people tweeting how they're unhappy and wanted someone else and don't know who he is are going to be madly in love with him themselves in due order imo.

You`re rigth!!! Look at me. Five years ago I was on hollyday in CA an watched The Bachelore for the first time. Arie came on my tv (the Dolly Parton date) and I fell madly in love with him !!!
And I`m still in love (pssst dont tell my BF)

[Maddy]

Emila23_12, you are not alone, I totally fell in love with him during the season and still care for him a lot. It happened only once more during all the years of the show, I loved who the first Bachelorette loved.
Here we go!!!  

https://twitter.com/zachbraff

[Mirzam]

ARIE!!!!! YES!!!!!

I haven't posted in ages, but on seeing the news on Facebook, I have to follow along for this one!

[Eagle Eye]

You guys, dreams do come true. I always hoped for Arie but never in a million years thought it would ever happen. Full credit to ABC for thinking outside the box with this one.

The only downside? I'm going to get absolutely nothing done between now and the end of March. This is going to be so much fun!!

[Maddy]

You guys, dreams do come true. I always hoped for Arie but never in a million years thought it would ever happen. Full credit to ABC for thinking outside the box with this one.

I feel the same! dreams do come true! and not in a million years I thought it would ever happen, I'm still trying to get used to the news!

@Mirzam, yes, join us, it's going to be a lot of fun!

[kjmluvstv]

You guys, dreams do come true. I always hoped for Arie but never in a million years thought it would ever happen. Full credit to ABC for thinking outside the box with this one.

The only downside? I'm going to get absolutely nothing done between now and the end of March. This is going to be so much fun!!

Eagle, right?? I cannot get over this either!! I missed GMA and could not believe my first message about this!!
I am still in shock, but on cloud 9 also. All I hope for is that the journey will end in love. All the guys say it a tough journey, much more difficult than they thought. That will be hard to watch, but all agree it was worth it in the end.

Here's to having fun with
him! And with each other!

[Maddy]

That will be hard to watch, but all agree it was worth it in the end.

@kjmluvstv, join the club!
I care for him so much, I just want it go well for him! I want to see him happy!
But Arie is a trooper, he already went through so much over the years.
We'll just wish him a lot of luck! and a lot of love!

[kjmluvstv]

That will be hard to watch, but all agree it was worth it in the end.

@kjmluvstv, join the club!
I care for him so much, I just want it go well for him! I want to see him happy!
But Arie is a trooper, he already went through so much over the years.
We'll just wish him a lot of luck! and a lot of love!

Maddy, I agree completely. He is older, wiserr, and I am so happy for him.

[pavalygurl]

I am still pinching myself. Can you believe our "blue hoodie guy" is finally the Bachelor!

[Maddy]

Looks like it's going to be a great season, Arie is so ready for that and we've been waiting for it forever!

Arie Luyendyk Jr. is ready to find his happily ever after!
The 35-year-old has been named The Bachelor‘s next leading man, Good Morning America revealed Thursday morning.
“This is pretty surreal,” Luyendyk Jr. exclusively tells PEOPLE. “It doesn’t really feel real yet, but I’m taking it step by step. The timing is just so perfect in my life. I could not be more excited for this journey I’m about to embark on.”
“I’m not nervous,” he admits. “Now that I’ve had some time and distance away from it, it feels like the feeling I had before I went into it the first time. I think sometimes when you’re on The Bachelorette and you jump right into being the Bachelor, for me it would’ve been too soon. This feels more natural. I’m not concerned what people think. I’m just focused on the outcome. I want to find my person and will do whatever it takes!”
But, have producers always had an eye on Luyendyk Jr.?
“It’s been an ongoing conversation through the last couple of years,” Luyendyk Jr. says. “The timing was never right.”
In 2015, former Bachelor Sean Lowe (whom befriended Luyendyk Jr. on Maynard’s season) told Dish Nation that the franchise producers extended an offer to Luyendyk Jr. to be the next Bachelor before reaching out to Chris Soules.
“From what I understand, the show, the producers that make the show, they wanted Arie,” said Lowe, but new executives at the network “were getting nervous. Like, Arie hadn’t been on TV in two years.”
Lowe’s claimed that Luyendyk Jr., who currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, had gotten as far as filming introductory segments when he learned he’d been replaced.
“They actually told Arie he was gonna be the Bachelor,” Lowe said. “They flew [him] down, had a camera crew, filmed him telling his family he was gonna be the next Bachelor – then pulled the rug out from underneath him and made Chris the Bachelor.”
But now, it’s Luyendyk Jr.’s turn!
Although things didn’t work out with Maynard, one thing’s for sure: “Not only is Arie a gorgeous man, but he has a heart of gold and he’s a great kisser! Does it get any better than that,” Maynard wrote in her blog for PEOPLE in 2012.
“I just want to find that spark with somebody,” he says. “I want to someone to share my life with. I feel like it’s my time. I’m going into this with an open heart.”

http://people.com/tv/arie-luyendyk-jr-the-bachelor/

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