January 24, 2023 • bachelor insider
Brianna Reveals if She Was Nervous Night 1 and Discusses Fostering Female Friendships on ‘The Bachelor’
“The Bachelor’s” Brianna is spilling the night one tea!
On the “After the Final Rose” special of “The Bachelorette,” fans saw Brianna receive America’s First Impression Rose after meeting Bachelor Zach Shallcross.
Now, Brianna is stopping by the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, where she’s opening up about whether she was nervous going into night one.
Co-hosts Michelle Young and Becca Kufrin asked Brianna if she was worried about being the last woman to walk into the mansion on night one as America’s First Impression Rose recipient.
Brianna shared that she wasn’t worried at all and decided to have fun with it.
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She said, “Being the last one in and walking in and meeting the other women was fun for me. I got a twirl on them real quick and then took my seat. I was not nervous about just walking in. I was more nervous about the full night and living in the house than I was about just walking in and seeing everybody.”
And while Brianna was definitely interested in getting time with Zach, she was also excited to meet all the other women.
The Bachelor Nation star said, “I was also actually there to make friends. Like a lot of people say, I was there to find love for sure, but I also love and value my female relationships so much. Those are some of my highest priorities in life, so I was so excited to get in there and hopefully find people I could genuinely connect with for life.”
Michelle agreed with Brianna, saying, “It really is the best part. And you spend so much time with the other women, so the people who say they are not there to make friends are right, but your friends are what get you through! They get you through this and they are the ones that understand.”
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Brianna shared that finding community and forming friendships was an important part of the Bachelor journey for her.
“Romantic love can come and go, but real true friends that are like sisters are so few and far between. I know that this is the kind of environment where you can really find those people for your life. It was a little nerve-wracking, but I wasn’t nervous to talk to Zach,” she explained.
To hear more from Brianna, check out the full episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” below.
And check out the resources from this week's episode here: Diversity Gap podcast, How I Built This podcast, and Florida Rejects A.P. African American Studies Class article.
