‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Season 10 Premiere Rose Ceremony Spoilers, Eliminations and More

The beloved reality TV series returns this evening with a major shake-up ahead.

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Season 10 stars Hakeem, Brian, Spencer, Dale, Justin, Jonathon, Jeremy, Kyle, Ricky, Sam, Bailey, Alexe, Kat, Zoe, Jess and Lexi / Disney/Bahareh Ritter

We’re officially back on the beach with ABC’s long-running reality series, as Bachelor in Paradise has returned with its tenth season. The dating show sees past contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette travel to a tropical location to try and find the love of their life. Unlike the flagship series, Paradise is typically more laid-back and fun as the cast members date one another to determine a match.

One thing that remains in all the Bachelor franchise series—also including The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette—is the rose ceremony. And in tonight’s premiere of Bachelor in Paradise Season 10, a few unlucky contestants already have to pack their bags.

We recapped the premiere of Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 live and updated this post as the episode aired.

Season 10 Week 1 recap

As always, the premiere kicks off with re-introductions of past contestants. Here’s the first 16 who enter Paradise in Week 1:

• Alexe Godin
• Bailey Taylor Brown
• Jess Edwards
• Kat Izzo
• Lexi Young
• Zoe McGrady
• Brian Autz
• Dale Moss
• Hakeem Moulton
• Jeremy Simon
• Jonathon Johnson
• Justin Glaze
• Kyle Howard
• Ricky Martinez
• Sam McKinney
• Spencer Conley

Right off the bat, Jess and Spencer hit it off and start spending time together. Meanwhile, the ladies of Grant’s season get to bond. Alexe calls Ricky her “type,” and Kat makes a grand return after her chaotic first stint on Paradise. As the contestants start to get settled, host Jesse Palmer shows up to greet everyone and deliver a tease of what to expect—including air conditioning in their hotel this year and new activities.

Bartender Wells Adams arrives to make the drinks, and, to everyone’s surprise, former Bachelorette star Hannah Brown shows up too. But no, Hannah won’t be dating this time around; she’s serving as “Paradise relations,” whatever that exactly entails.

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Season 10 stars Hannah Brown, Jesse Palmer and Wells Adams / Disney/Bahareh Ritter

Ricky pulls Alexe to talk to her alone, and Alexe is pleasantly surprised by how many similarities they have, calling their connection as having “potential.” Kyle and Bailey hit it off, while Kat spends some alone time with Jonathon. Zoe and Brian also start getting close.

By the second day, Hakeem makes his interest in Bailey known, giving her a handwritten note to get some alone time. But everyone becomes distracted when Dale arrives at Paradise, with the women excited over how handsome he is, and the men feeling intimidated.

While the women get to hand out roses this week, Justin and Dale receive date cards and get to pick who they want to go on them with. Unfortunately, however, after Justin chooses Lexi, their date gets rained out and they have to stay at the resort.

Dale ultimately chooses Kat as his date, and it’s evident how jealous some of the other girls are as they watch the pair leave the hotel together. They go out on a catamaran and seem to really hit it off, even sharing a kiss.

The rest of the contestants must play a game back at the resort, tasked with getting to know one another through different prompts. As they go through the results, new contestant Sam shows up and receives a date card. As Justin enlists Hannah to help set up a special date for Kat, Bailey and Jeremy walk on the beach for some one-on-one time and end up sharing a kiss.

And while Jess is already getting kind of serious with Spencer, Sam swoops in and asks her on his date. To Spencer’s horror, she says yes—and he’s not happy about it. Jess and Spencer have a great time and share a kiss, meanwhile Spencer spirals back at the hotel.

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Season 10 poster / Disney

Finally, Justin and Lexi are able to go on their date now that the weather has calmed down, and the pair enjoys some drinks by the pool. Lexi is a little concerned over the fact that Justin recently got out of a relationship with former Bachelor star Susie Evans.

The group enjoys a cocktail party ahead of the rose ceremony to mingle one last time before the ladies have to make their picks, and some of the men start to worry they could be going home.

Season 10 Week 1 rose ceremony

Here are the first rose ceremony pairings:

• Jess and Spencer
• Bailey and Jeremy
• Kat and Dale
• Zoe and Brian
• Alexe and Jonathon
• Lexi and Justin

And here are the first eliminations after the first rose ceremony:

• Sam
• Kyle
• Hakeem
• Ricky

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This season of Bachelor in Paradise is about to be a history-making one, and if Reality Steve is correct in his leaks, it’ll be for more reasons than one. For starters, as it’s been confirmed by ABC, this season will include past contestants from The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette, meaning people of all ages will be looking for love together on the same beach.

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Season 10 stars Keith, Jack, Gary, Kim, Charles K., RJ, Kathy, Natascha, Leslie and April / Disney/Bahareh Ritter

The former Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette contestants will enter Paradise ahead of the third rose ceremony, so it’ll be a couple of weeks until we see how their arrivals shake up the season. To learn how else the season is allegedly different this time around, check out Reality Steve’s full spoiler breakdown here.

Keep watching new episodes of Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 every Monday night on ABC. Episodes stream the next day on Hulu.

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