‘Bachelor’ Needs To Be ‘Canceled’ As Views Drop For Grant Ellis

BACHELOR Grant Ellis’ ratings have plummeted by more than a million viewers from Joey Graziadei’s season, The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal. 

Fans have called for the “outdated” reality series to be “canceled” by ABC after declining interest with the most recent Bachelor leads.

Grant, 31, secured the coveted spot to hand out roses for season 29 - which was announced during Bachelorette Jenn Tran’s Men Tell All special last Summer.  

“I’m developing my emotional intelligence, that's something I'm definitely going to do… and doing 100 pushups a day,” Grant told host Jesse Palmer at the time about how he was preparing for his new role. 

Despite his good looks and charm, fan interest in Grant’s season appeared to be at an all-time low - which has been reflected in this year’s ratings. 

According to Nielsen ratings, the average number of viewers tuning into Grant’s season is about 2.4 million. 

The premiere of his season, which aired on January 27, 2025, brought in 2.7 million - which was over a 15% decrease from Joey’s debut the year prior. 

In the following week, the show dropped 400,000 - only bringing in 2.3 million. 

The show maintained roughly 2.3 million in the next few weeks - but saw a bump to 2.8 million for the week of Hometown Dates which aired on March 3rd. 

Compared to Joey’s season of The Bachelor, Grant's ratings are down nearly a million viewers. 

Joey, 29, became a fan-favorite as the runner-up on Charity Lawson’s season of The Bachelorette in 2023. 

On average, Joey’s season - which aired from January to March 2024 - brought in roughly 3.5million people each week. 

His finale, which showed his engagement to fiancée Kelsey Anderson, scored a season-high of 4.2million. 

Joey’s popularity went on to score him other opportunities outside of The Bachelor - including a spot on Dancing With The Stars in 2024. 

He ended up winning the show with partner Jenna Johnson - making him the first Bachelor to score the Mirrorball Trophy. 

Though Joey has grown more popular than other recent Bachelor’s, including Zach Shallcross, Clayton Echard and Matt James, none of their seasons were able to hold a candle to Bachelor Nation’s heyday. 

The franchise hit an all-time series high when Nick Viall - then a 35-year-old technology salesman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin - became the lead for season 21 in 2017. 

He gained notoriety for being a “villain” in back-to-back seasons of The Bachelorette - as well as an unsuccessful stint on Bachelor in Paradise. 

During his run as The Bachelor, Nick was bringing in nearly 8 million viewers every week. 

His season finale, which aired in March 2017, was watched by nearly 9million people. 

Longtime fans of the franchise have even complained that the “outdated” setup of the dating show has become too much to watch and have begged ABC to cancel the series.  

“Can they just cancel this show? Couples don’t work! It’s a big production that doesn’t seem to yield sufficient successful couples,” an angry fan raged. 

While another who insisted the franchise should just stick to the Golden Bachelor wrote: “I never want to watch any other version of The Bachelor ever again. 

“Cancel them all. Just give me #TheGoldenBachelor now and forever!”

An X user asked: “Can we just cancel the bachelor franchise already?”

One more added that the show feels “incredibly outdated” and “doesn’t hit the same” as it once did.  

The season 29 finale of The Bachelor airs Monday, March 17th at 8 pm ET on ABC.