The Bachelorette will skip a season and is 'unlikely to return in 2025' amid fears over the future of the show.
The last season aired in summer 2024 and starred Jenn Tran, who eventually chose Devin Strader. However their love story was doomed as he ended their engagement shortly afterwards.
Per Deadline it is understood that ABC won't be airing the show this year and while it hasn't been canceled, it is 'unlikely' to air in 2025, although the option 'hasn't been ruled out.'
The reason for the hiatus is unclear.
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for ABC for comment.
While The Bachelorette has been airing since 2003, it did not air a season in 2006 or 2007.
ABC has been slammed over a 'cruel' finale of The Bachelorette after it forced star Jenn Tran to watch back her ill-fated proposal while weeping uncontrollably
Jenn Tran left sobbing watching her ill-fated proposal
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Tran's season was considered among the most controversial ever after Devin ghosted his fiancee after show filming ended.
ABC was slammed over a 'cruel' finale of The Bachelorette after it forced Tran to watch back her ill-fated proposal while weeping uncontrollably.
The network has been accused of humiliating the 26-year-old during the explosive three-hour season end.
Tran, a physician assistant student from Hillsdale, New Jersey, proposed to love interest Devin Strader, 28 in Hawaii, but he broke it off over the phone shortly after the show wrapped and refused to talk to her for months.
Tran was then forced to sit next to Strader and relive the pain of her breakup in front millions of viewers, after show host Jesse Palmer asked if they should watch a video of her proposal.
'Do I have any choice?' Devastated Tran asked before the clip was screened anyway, causing her to collapse into sobs for the duration.
Her treatment, especially as the show's first Asian-American lead, has sparked fury at ABC, with many fans vowing to boycott the series entirely.
The last season aired in summer 2024 and starred Jenn Tran, who eventually chose Devin Strader. However their love story was doomed as he ended their engagement shortly afterwards
Per Deadline it is understood that ABC won't be airing the show this year and while it hasn't been canceled, it is 'unlikely' to air in 2025, although the option 'hasn't been ruled out'
'I am sick to my stomach! Jenn should not have been put through all that - how dare you ABC,' TikTok user Layla Taremi fumed.
Another, Allie Renee, posted a video through tears claiming she would never watch the franchise again.
'What the producers made Jenn sit through was complete evil,' Renee said.
'Despite how casting works, the fact that so many men went into it expecting a different woman, they set her up for failure from the beginning.
'I just feel like watching after the final rose episode was truly horrific.'
'We waited so long for an Asian-American Bachelorette for it to end like this?' Melissa Hong said. 'I am completely appalled at how they treated her [...] The set seemed so dismissive, so cruel, so overlooked.
'As an Asian-American myself, something I think a lot of us felt is that they didn't give Jenn the time of day. They just skipped over her trauma.
Viewers took to social media to express their anger with ABC with some vowing never to watch the show again
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'You just witnessed a woman in the height of her heartbreak, I am just so disappointed. I know it's reality TV but at the end of the day she deserves better.'
Even Good Morning America host Lara Spencer admitted she found the finale 'hard to watch' during Tran's first interview since the controversy, which took place Wednesday morning.
During the segment, Tran said she had no regrets proposing to Shrader but that he was clearly not the same man she had fallen for.
