Zach Shallcross Prepares to Meet the Contestants on 'The Bachelor'

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Bachelor has 30 women to get to know when season 27 begins January 23

Zach Shallcross of 'The Bachelor'
Zach Shallcross of 'The Bachelor' (Image credit: ABC/Craig Sjodin)

Season 27 of The Bachelor begins on ABC Monday, January 23. Zach Shallcross is the bachelor, and 30 women will battle for his attention.

The contestants include Anastasia, a content marketing manager from San Diego; Brooklyn, a rodeo racer from Stillwater, Oklahoma; Cat, a dancer from New York; Genevie, a neonatal nurse from Baltimore; and Viktoria, a nanny from Austria.

Shallcross, 26, was on season 19 of The Bachelorette. From Anaheim Hills, California, he splits his time between Texas and Southern California.

Some of the women, including Brooklyn, Cat, Bailey from Nashville, Brianna from Jersey City, and Christina from Nashville, met Shallcross on Bachelorette: After the Final Rose.

The Bachelor is a production of Next Entertainment and Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Warner Horizon. Mike Fleiss, Nicole Woods, Bennett Graebner, Louis Caric, Peter Geist, Peter Gust, Tim Warner, Jodi Baskerville and Jeff Thomas are the executive producers. ■

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.