Could a New Bachelor/ette Come From Listen to Your Heart?

As Bachelor spinoff Listen to Your Heart premieres Monday, April 13 on ABC, we’ve been wondering since the network announced the spinoff if this cast would give them more people to pick from for The Bachelor, The Bachelorette or Bachelor in Paradise. Here’s what host Chris Harrison and executive producer Bennett Graebner had to say.

A New Lead Could Definitely Come from Listen to Your Heart

EXTENDED PREVIEW: The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your HeartDon’t miss the all-new Bachelor series where music is the gateway to love. You’ll also get to see some familiar faces from Bachelor Nation! Let us know who you can spot in the comments section, and get ready for the premiere of The Bachelor Presents: Listen To Your Heart on April 13 on ABC. ➤ Subscribe ➤ http://bit.ly/BacheIorNation Season: 1 Episode: 1 This spring, ABC turns up the romance with the compelling new modern-day fairy tale The Baker and the Beauty premiering MONDAY, APRIL 13 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), following the premiere of the all-new Bachelor Nation series, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart. The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart unites two of the most emotionally powerful forces in human life: music and love, as 20 single men and women embark on an incredible journey to find love through music. Singing well-known songs, both individually and as couples, they will look to form attractions through the melodies, find and reveal their feelings, and ultimately fall in love. The eligible bachelors and bachelorettes will meet and explore their relationships while living together and going on Bachelor-style dates that focus on music. Once the couples commit to each other, it will be time to take their relationship to the next level. The harmony of the couples will be tested through musical challenges, including live performances judged by some of the biggest names in the music business. Ultimately, the couples whose performances reveal their love and devotion to one another will continue to be given a chance to further their relationships until only one couple is left standing. ➤ Want more Hannah B? Watch her journey so far here ➤ http://bit.ly/HannahBachelorette ➤ Check out this playlist for MORE Bachelor proposals from across the world! ➤ https://bit.ly/2Ka8Yed Welcome to Bachelor Nation! Here you’ll find your favorite Bachelor, Bachelorette, and Bachelor In Paradise moments from all around the world. Thought The Bachelor was just a US phenomenon? Think again! The romance, glamour, and heart-ache may have started in the States, but the love-bug soon spread around the globe, from Australia and Canada to the UK, New Zealand and beyond! Bachelor Nation is here to share the fan-favorite and memorable moments from over 1000 episodes and 30 countries – Will you accept this rose? 🌹 ➤ Videos from Bachelors around the world uploaded every day! Share the love from around the globe ➤ Subscribe ➤ http://bit.ly/BacheIorNation #BachelorNation #TheBachelor #ListenToYourHeart2020-03-19T19:00:11.000Z

When Heavy spoke with Harrison back in January and asked about casting the Listen to Your HEart</i contestants on other Bachelor shows, Harrison said that could “absolutely” happen — even a lead could come from the spinoff.

“If someone comes from Listen to Your Heart and just blows the world away and blows us away and they have a great story, they could be the next bachelorette, they could be the next bachelor, why not?” said Harrison. “As long as they’re sincere and looking for love and it’s a great story and it’s going to be good TV, absolutely.”

He added that while they’ve mostly gone to the formula of choosing people from the season that just aired to anchor the next series, that’s not a guarantee.

“People need to understand that although we do have a track record for pulling people from past shows, that’s not a guarantee, that’s not a done deal,” said Harrison. “Trust me, we do look at a lot of options. Whether we want to do a celebrity, whether we want to do someone from years past, maybe someone completely different that casting has stumbled upon. Everything is on the table, and I mean everything is on the table. Then we narrow it down, narrow it down, narrow it down, and finally, the proverbial gun is to our head because we have to get into production.”

Harrison also told us that they have had seasons where the producers fight like cats and dogs over who is going to be the next lead.

“It’s like a fantasy draft. We all have our favorites. I have my favorite that I’m going to fight for and Mike Fleiss, the creator, has his favorite. And we will fight. There will be screaming matches of who we think will be the best bachelor or bachelorette,” said Harrison.

But at the end of the day, the big wigs like the president of ABC, the president of Warner Horizon, and show creator Mike Fleiss are the ones who make the final decision.

“But we all put our two cents in and we fight for it,” he said.

But It’s More Likely To See Them on Bachelor in Paradise

Meet The Cast | The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your HeartAhead of tonight’s show, here’s a first look at the cast of Bachelor Nation’s newest show, The Bachelor Presents: Listen To Your Heart. Don’t miss the series premiere tonight at 8/7c on ABC. ➤ Subscribe ➤ http://bit.ly/BacheIorNation The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart Season: 1 Episode: 1 The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart unites two of the most emotionally powerful forces in human life: music and love, as 20 single men and women embark on an incredible journey to find love through music. Singing well-known songs, both individually and as couples, they will look to form attractions through the melodies, find and reveal their feelings, and ultimately fall in love. The eligible bachelors and bachelorettes will meet and explore their relationships while living together and going on Bachelor-style dates that focus on music. Once the couples commit to each other, it will be time to take their relationship to the next level. The harmony of the couples will be tested through musical challenges, including live performances judged by some of the biggest names in the music business. Ultimately, the couples whose performances reveal their love and devotion to one another will continue to be given a chance to further their relationships until only one couple is left standing. ➤ Want more Bachelor Musical Moments? Catch the highlights here ➤ https://bit.ly/BachelorMusicalMoments ➤ Check out this playlist for MORE Bachelor proposals from across the world! ➤ https://bit.ly/2Ka8Yed Welcome to Bachelor Nation! Here you’ll find your favorite Bachelor, Bachelorette, and Bachelor In Paradise moments from all around the world. Thought The Bachelor was just a US phenomenon? Think again! The romance, glamour, and heart-ache may have started in the States, but the love-bug soon spread around the globe, from Australia and Canada to the UK, New Zealand and beyond! Bachelor Nation is here to share the fan-favorite and memorable moments from over 1000 episodes and 30 countries – Will you accept this rose? 🌹 #BachelorNation #TheBachelor #ListenToYourHeart2020-04-13T13:00:00.000Z

EP Graebner told us that he sees Listen to Your Heart more like Bachelor Winter Games, where they got cast members “from all over the world” and then “some of them appeared on Bachelor in Paradise that following summer.”

“I see some of these people popping up on another show for us, yeah, I can. But let’s see how things go. I hope they all fall in love and they’re unavailable!” said Graebner with a laugh.

The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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