Once he revealed his tattoo in The Bachelorette Season 6 Episode 5, Kasey was toast. Then the barely visible Chris N was also eliminated.
This week we head to Istanbul, Turkey.
Ali feels better right now than she has throughout the entire journey. She doesn’t think anything can go wrong at this point. Dun dun dun…
Does she have a second to talk to Chris Harrison? Jessie, who was on the season with Ali and Jake, would like to talk to her. One of the guys has a girlfriend. Just one? Jessie’s sitting with Justin’s girlfriend Jessica right now. He is on the show solely for the purpose of promoting Rated-R. Yeah, I noticed. Oh, and by the way, she’s calling because she found out he has another (another) girlfriend.
Ali wants Justin on the first plane to wherever she can legally send him. At least she doesn’t plan to keep him around like Jillian did with Wes. Chris and Ali walk to the guys’ suite to confront Justin. With nothing to say on the subject of how much of an asshat he is, Justin walks out of the room, grabs his bag, and leaves the hotel.
After running away and getting his lies in order (not very well), Justin returns to talk. Jessica’s like his best friend, and he did not tell her about any plan he hatched. He realized recently (the day after Kasey went home) that his heart’s no longer into this. In case we didn’t hear it the first 58 times, Ali gave up everything to be here (travelling around the world on ABC’s dime while 25 hot guys compete for her). Unable to say Jessica is a liar, Justin again walks away. As we watch him leave, we hear the messages he left for Jessica while on this show.
Now that we’ve wasted a large chunk of the show on the wrestler, it’s finally time to get to the dates. Ty gets the one-on-one date. They head to a place where people used to go to relax, a Turkish bathhouse (hamam). With the place off limits to anyone else, it’d be hard to pick a better place for a sensual date. He’s grown up in a very traditional background, where the women were unable to fend for themselves, but he says he’s changed his views since that time. At the end of the day, Ty receives a rose.
The group date goes to Chris, Roberto, Kirk, and Craig. They go to a 15th century fortress that was built during the Ottoman Empire. There will be no rose on this date. However, they will be able to get some special one-on-one time at the end of the night. They’re going to have to fight for it. Literally. Too bad Justin’s gone. 4 oiled up husky Turkish guys in black leather pants approach. They are professional olive oil wrestlers like Popeye. The first person to force an opponent’s back on the ground is the winner. Since they can’t beat the pros, they will then have to wrestle each other. Craig beats Chris in the first round. Then Roberto beats Kirk. In the battle between Roberto and Craig, Craig overcomes the odds and wins.
That leaves Frank with the one-on-one date, marking his second. As for Craig, he’s had no individual dates, and he’s the only one. So just eliminate him already if you don’t want to date him. At least Craig won the time she didn’t want to give him. Having won the wrestlefest, Craig gets to take a boat to dinner. They finish off the night watching fireworks.
Now it’s Frank’s turn again. Ali hopes he can stop disappointing her. This date is going to be at a spice bazaar. They purchase the economy size aphrodisiacs. Then they get dressed up like an episode of I Dream of Jeannie. Afterward, they get scammed into by a used carpet salesman. That night, they have dinner at a cistern on a platform surrounded by water and candles. She’s afraid of their relationship. His plan is to only propose one time, and he wants to be sure about it. This probably isn’t the right environment for him then. When it’s over, Frank gets a rose.
The guys are hoping to spend some time with Ali at the cocktail party. Well, there’s not gonna be a cocktail party tonight. Ali feels like she’s had a connection of some sort with every guy there but one.
Roses
Ty (individual date)
Frank (individual date)
Roberto
Chris
Kirk
Craig has been eliminated. Obviously. Like I said before, she should have just eliminated him already if she didn’t have any interest in dating him.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Bachelorette Season 6 Episode 7, which airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.