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Inside Jesse Palmer’s Season of ‘The Bachelor’: Who Was His Final Rose Winner?

Jesse Palmer was the lead on The Bachelor long before he started hosting the series. Inside his journey on the show, including who he picked as his winner.

The beloved sports commentator and former professional football player was the lead of season 5 and left the dating show without an engagement. “I was staring at Karen, offering her the rose, and I said, ‘Katie,’ and then in my peripheral vision, another woman started walking, and that’s when I thought to myself, ‘Damn it, I screwed that up,’” Jesse later recalled on the Jennifer Hudson Show in March 2023. Jesse sparked a connection with model Emely Fardo in 2017 and the pair got engaged during a romantic trip to Paris in July 2019.

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