Ranking Every Bachelor, From Least to Most Popular

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24. Alex Michel: Season 1

not appear to have any form of public social media. As for his show status, Michel ended up not proposing to Amanda Marsh, the winner of his season.

The couple still dated for several months before officially calling it quits.

Alex Michel: Now

He still does not appear to have any social media.

23. Aaron Buerge: Season 2

Bachelor, he did not propose to finalists Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas.

When he looked for love a second time on Season 15, the blonde heartthrob proposed to Emily Maynard. They broke up in May 2011.

Brad Womack: Now

While he still does not appear to have Instagram, his name is a popular hashtag as many fans have posted photos with him, after spotting him out.

21. Byron Velvick: Season 6

Basscenter and appeared on the ESPN series Going Coastal. The two-time WON Bass U.S. Open champion fisherman has not been active on his Twitter account, which has 3,405 followers, since 2015.

He does not appear to have an Instagram account but fans like to take pictures with him and post it using his name as a hashtag.

20. Matt Grant: Season 12

Bachelor Pad, Dancing With the Stars, Drop Dead Diva and The Bold and the Beautiful. He also briefly hosted a Chippendales Las Vegas show in 2012.

Pavelka has over 5,000 followers on Instagram. He posts throwback Bachelor pics and photos with other Bachelor stars.

18. Lorenzo Borghese: Season 9

Lorenzo Borghese: Now

17. Andrew Baldwin: Season 10

"Not sure why this has stayed with me or why we all thought it was so funny," Harrison said in an interview. "During a particularly awkward dinner date in Season 3, Amber asked Bachelor Andrew Firestone, 'What's your favorite, like, restaurant chain? I like the Olive Garden!'"

Andrew Firestone: Now

The Bachelor, the reality star has appeared on Crossing Jordan alongside his brother, actor Jerry O'Connell.

The former Bachelor is not active on social media.

14. Ben Flajnik: Season 16

The former Bachelor has 113,000 followers on Instagram.

11. Jesse Palmer: Season 5

Holiday Baking Championship, DailyMailTV and The Proposal.

This former NFL pro has over 115,000 Instagram followers.

10. Jason Mesnick: Season 13

Instagram followers.

8. Juan Pablo Galavis: Season 18

The ex sports star did not propose to finalist Nikki Ferrell, but instead offered to spend more time with her to get to know her better. "I always remember what Nikki's dad told me," he told ET. "'If you're gonna propose to my daughter, [you've got to be] 100 percent sure you're gonna marry her,'" he recalled. "And for me, it was very hard because I have a daughter and I was like, 'I think the same way as you do. I hope the guy that proposes to my daughter is gonna marry her, and right now I just need to get to know her better.'"

The couple split in 2014.

Juan Pablo Galavis: Now

most notorious villains, Galavis has 597,000 Instagram followers.

6. Arie Luyendyk Jr.: Season 22

best friend!), would be the star of The Bachelor Season 25. James was nominated for the series by Cameron's late mother.

James and his finalist, Rachael Kirkconnell, split after her racist past resurfaced.

"You wanna believe that you know your person better than anybody else knows your person, and while all this controversy's swirling around, who Rachael is, things that she might have attended, and pictures that she liked and people that she's associated with," Matt said. "Before Rachael addressed anything or Chris Harrison spoke on anything, I'm trying to be there for her, and I dismissed them as rumors, because that's what they were to me. You hear things that are heartbreaking, and you just pray they're not true. And then, when you find out that they are it just makes you question everything."

Matt James: Now

said. "I'm solely focused on getting back to that meaningful work in the community and centering myself around projects that are going to elevate all the work I've been doing in the city, special interest things that I appreciate outside reality television."

James also said he has no plans to join the cast of Bachelor in Paradise. "[Bachelor in Paradise] is not in my cards. That's in someone else's cards, all power to them, but, for me, there's a lot of things I need to focus on outside of reality TV and I'm excited about that."

He has over 964,000 Instagram followers.

5. Nick Viall: Season 21

The Bachelorette in 2014, during which he was the runner-up to Josh Murray. The next year, he joined Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of the show, where he once again came in second place, this time to Shawn Booth.

In 2017, the Wisconsin native became the Bachelor. He proposed to finalist Vanessa Grimaldi. The two ended things later that year.

Since then, the reality celeb has been linked to actresses such as January Jones and Rachel Bilson.

Nick Viall: Now

in 2020. "So I don't think it really has changed too much."

Viall has 1.1 million followers on Instagram.

4. Sean Lowe: Season 17

three children together.

"I found my best friend," Lowe said of one of the reasons he chose to make Giudici his wife. "On the show, we would say, 'Wouldn't it be nice if we could just put sweatpants on and lay on the couch and watch Netflix?' That is who I found, as opposed to just picking someone just purely based on something superficial."

Sean Lowe: Now

The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons -- Ever!, Sean's wife Catherine took to Instagram to open up about feeling like she was cast on the series to "check a box."

"I knew that one of the reasons I was probably chosen was because I was Filipino. I counted myself out to be his fiancée because of what I assumed Sean liked. I thought I was there just to check a box, but I ended up with so much more," she wrote. "As he started noticing me for who I really was, I allowed this experience to open myself up to the possibility of being fully loved and appreciated for all that I was. I ended up getting to represent a mixed race community ... and marrying the most amazing man I’ve ever known. I’d say doing this show was one of the best things that ever happened to me."

3. Ben Higgins: Season 20

The Bachelor was one of the most dramatic the franchise had ever seen. He had proposed to Hannah Ann Sluss, then ended their engagement and started a relationship with his runner-up, Madison Prewett.

His mom, Barbara, strongly disapproved, and days later, Weber and Prewett went their separate ways. Weeks after that, he started dating another ex-contestant, Kelley Flanagan.

Peter Weber: Now

The reality star and Flanagan split in 2020. "We’re just two different people, and those differences surfaced after eight months of dating," he said. "But I loved her like crazy, and my mom really cared about her."

In 2021, the pilot moved to New York. His 1.7 million Instagram followers get a peek of his new life in the Big Apple.

1. Colton Underwood: Season 23

In April of that year, it was announced that he is filming a new Netflix reality series related to his sexuality announcement.

Underwood has 2 million Instagram followers.

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