Is ‘The Bachelor’ Giving Maria the Bachelorette Edit?
The Bachelor hasn’t seen someone like Maria Georgas in years. The 29-year-old executive assistant from Ontario, Canada is the kind of contestant who keeps us all on our toes: One minute, she’s making fun of our leading man Joey Graziadei’s taste in movies, and the next she’s “slipping into something more comfortable” in a group date. This week, she even managed to playfully trick him into saying “I love you” in French. On top of all this, she’s been front-and-center all season, which leads us to the obvious question: Could she be ABC’s next Bachelorette?
To a Bachelor novice, all this screen time Maria’s been getting might seem like a sign she’s the winner, but us long-haulers know better. Usually, the show’s production team will do a good job of hiding the actual winner behind a few other contestants who get all the screen time. The women we see popping up a lot early on tend to be on their way to one of two destinations—their own season, or the beaches of Bachelor in Paradise.
For my money, Maria would be a fantastic Bachelorette. For one thing, she’s an absolute firecracker, which would set her apart from many of the contestants who’ve historically gotten the role. (The world of The Bachelor/ette tends to favor polite “girls next door” over bigger, edgier personalities—which sometimes works out great and sometimes turns out very boring!) This week, Joey called Maria an “enigma” he could never quite figure out, and it’s that exact ability to keep men on their toes that could make her Bachelorette season a stand-out.