When does 'Bachelor in Paradise' start? Full 2025 cast list, location and everything else to know about Season 10.
ABC's beach-set spinoff, which sees eliminated contestants of Bachelor franchises reunite on a picturesque beach for another chance at love, is back after a brief hiatus. This season, the usual Paradise location of Sayulita, Mexico, has also been swapped for Costa Rica's Playa Samara.
The show's return also comes with a twist: For the first time in Bachelor in Paradise history, former Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette contestants will be flocking to the beach alongside their younger franchise counterparts.
While the decision to mix contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette with Golden alum initially drew backlash from fans — many have voiced concerns about witnessing uncomfortable interactions between the younger women and older men — Season 10 proceeded as planned.
'I think it's going to be really exciting and really fresh as well,' host Jesse Palmer told Decider in July. 'There's so much new stuff happening in Costa Rica, which I thought was the perfect backdrop for this season. Having the Golden cast was amazing. It brought so much to the show.'
Here's everything to know about this season of Bachelor in Paradise ahead of its Monday night premiere.
Season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise premieres on July 7 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Episodes will also be available to stream the next day on Hulu.
This year, Paradise takes place in Costa Rica. Season 10 marks the first time the spinoff series has departed from its typical shooting location of Mexico. The reason for the move, executive producer Scott Teti told Entertainment Weekly, was to capture the 'new vibe' of the show.
'I think the drive to move was based on shaking things up stylistically with a new vibe and a new kind of Paradise,' he said. 'This also is very production friendly. It's a very private beach. It's very secluded, but it also has the ability for our production to stay on one side of the sister hotel, and the newer portion of the Azuara Beach Resort, where we will be filming, is right next door. It's this beautiful sexy, new location.'
Unlike past seasons, contestants will also be staying in actual hotel rooms, as opposed to open-air cabanas.
'The hotel where they're going to be staying is more upscale and has a sexy chicness to it that feels a little bit elevated than the traditional kind of Paradise world we've been in. The cast can literally open up the doors to their rooms and swim out into the pool under bridges, and then up to a beautiful bar that is touching the beach,' Teti told Entertainment Weekly.
This season of Bachelor in Paradise will feature a mix of contestants who've previously appeared on The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette.
Here is the full list of announced contestants:
Bailey Brown, The Bachelor Season 29
Alexe-Anne 'Alexe' Godin, The Bachelor Season 29
Zoe McGrady, The Bachelor Season 29
Katherine 'Kat' Izzo, The Bachelorette Season 27, Bachelor in Paradise, Season 9
Lexi Young, The Bachelor Season 28
Jessica 'Jess' Edwards, The Bachelor Season 28
Justin Glaze, The Bachelorette Season 17, Bachelor in Paradise Season 8
Brian Autz, The Bachelorette Season 21
Kyle Howard, The Bachelorette Season 17
Spencer Conley, The Bachelorette Season 21
Dale Moss, The Bachelorette Season 16
Sam McKinney, The Bachelorette Season 21
Jonathon Johnson, The Bachelorette Season 21
Jeremy Simon, The Bachelorette Season 21
Hakeem Moulton, The Bachelorette Season 21
Riquerdy 'Ricky' Marinez, The Bachelorette Season 21
April Kirkwood, The Golden Bachelor Season 1
Charles 'CK' King, The Golden Bachelorette Season 1
Jack Lencioni, The Golden Bachelorette Season 1
Kathy Swarts, The Golden Bachelor Season 1
Keith Gordon, The Golden Bachelorette Season 1
Kim Buike, The Golden Bachelorette Season 1
Leslie Fhima, The Golden Bachelor Season 1
Natascha Hardee, The Golden Bachelor Season 1
Ralph 'RJ' Johnson, The Golden Bachelorette Season 1
Gary Levingston, The Golden Bachelorette Season 1
Palmer will be returning as the host of Bachelor in Paradise. Joining him on the beach is Wells Adams, who will be reprising his role as the show's bartender, and former bachelorette Hannah Brown, who will help contestants navigate their journeys as the head of 'Paradise Relations.'
'To me, the foundation and the pillar of the whole franchise is love: finding love, giving people an opportunity — sometimes a second or third chance — to find that,' Palmer told Us Weekly in July. 'Paradise in a big way is a lot about redemption. To me, finding love and engagement is paramount. In my opinion, that's ultimately what the show should always be about.'
ABC's decision to include Golden contestants was initially met with backlash from fans of the franchise. Fans mainly voiced their concerns about potentially seeing older men from The Golden Bachelorette attempt to date younger women from past seasons of The Bachelor.
One fan on X wrote, 'I hope this is a joke because I don't know how this franchise will recover from 70 year old men hitting on 23 year old women. And you cannot convince me that won't happen. Hopefully they just aren't explaining everything? Help,' while another added, 'The idea of golden bachelor in paradise with the regular young cast is giving sexual harassment case impending.'
Adams, in an interview with Decider, admitted that he, like a lot of Bachelor Nation, was apprehensive about the Golden additions. But he was pleasantly surprised by how the season actually unfolded.
'I was a little apprehensive, which I think Bachelor Nation feels, about the Goldens coming,' he said. 'But I couldn't have been more wrong about it. I was a little nervous, because it's hot. It's long days, and I don't want to kill anybody. But I'm not lying when I say that the Goldens brought so much more energy than the youngs did.'
'God bless the Goldens,' he added.
Adams recently told Us Weekly that this season's episodes will also look more 'cinematic.'
'We have been using the same cameras to film Paradise since the dawn of time,' he told the outlet. 'Having these new cameras and seeing how sharp and how slick it looks — it's like I'm watching a movie. When they told me that they were gonna do this, I was really excited about it. Mainly because the show is so sexy, naturally — everyone's so hot — we should have the highest quality cameras capturing the beauty of these people.'
Palmer also told Decider that this season features 'a lot of stuff you've never seen before.'
'Wells, Hannah, and I got to spend a lot of time in the control room together watching everything unfold,' he said. 'We would meet at my palapa and have drinks after to digest everything that we just saw. There's a lot of love, there's a lot of drama, there's some crazy — and we're like, 'You know it's bad when, when we need cocktails to try and digest it.' Or I should say, 'You know it's really good!' So I'm excited for people at home to see.'
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