ABC’s ‘Bachelorette’ is not returning this summer. Was Florida’s Jenn Tran the last one?

As the 29th season of ABC’s “The Bachelor” comes to a close, with hometown dates in just a few days, Bachelor Nation can expect a quiet summer.

For the first time since 2007, ABC will not be producing a season of “The Bachelorette” this year, which typically premieres midsummer after filming in the spring.

It’s unclear when the show could come back. Many fans suspect that the show’s hiatus could be due to the heartbreaking journey that the last Bachelorette lead, Florida’s Jenn Tran, went through on the show.

Here’s what we know about “The Bachelorette” hiatus, what happened at the end of Jenn Tran’s season last summer and when the current season of “The Bachelor” is set to end.

ABC has not officially cancelled “The Bachelorette,” but hasn’t announced how long the break from “The Bachelor” spin-off could last. It’s unclear when another season of “The Bachelorette” could be expected.

According to reporting by Deadline and USA TODAY, “‘The Bachelorette’ most recently took a break in 2007, but the show didn't air in 2006, either."

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Deadline, which first reported the news on Feb. 7, wrote that it’s not clear why ABC is taking a break, but said it could be due to scheduling conflicts with other “Bachelor” franchise shows that were postponed due to the scheduling of “The Golden Bachelorette” in the fall. 

“Other shows in the ‘Bachelor’ universe have also been paused, or pushed back due to scheduling conflicts,” USA TODAY and Deadline reported. 

“‘Bachelor in Paradise’ had its spot taken by ‘The Golden Bachelorette’ in September 2024, but it will be the next show in the Bachelor universe to air.”

Some fans theorize that the reason for the hiatus isn't just "Bachelor in Paradise" scheduling, but that the ending of Jenn Tran's season ended in a way that seemed incredibly painful for her and was uncomfortable to watch.

Jenn ended up getting engaged to Devin Strader on the show. And in an unprecedented decision, she actually decided to propose to him.

During the live finale, the audience was waiting for footage of a touching proposal between Jenn and Devin, but Host Jesse Palmer said that with the way things ended, it was only right that Jenn spoke to the audience before the footage of the proposal was aired.

Jenn opened up on the live finale, saying it felt like feelings completely changed from "one day to the next."

"It's been a really hard couple of months," Jenn said. "We left Hawaii engaged, very happy. It was the happiest day of my life. I had thought that I found the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. And then, essentially, as soon as we left Hawaii, things were just different."

Jenn explained that she felt "secondary" to everything in Devin's life and she "didn't understand why." She explained that Devin broke off the engagement a month prior to the live finale, meaning the couple only stayed together for around two months after the show wrapped.

After her tearful recount of the breakup with Devin, Jesse brought Devin out on stage to sit next to Jenn for the couple's first face-to-face conversation since their breakup. She said she'd been trying to see him and have an off-camera conversation with Devin about everything, but never got it and said he "ghosted" her.

Many fans were shocked that ABC would bring Jenn onto the live finale to air out what seemed to be one of the most painful times in her life, some called it exploitative. Fans posted on X (formerly Twitter) throughout the live finale, expressing distaste for ABC's decision to make her re-watch the proposal footage on stage and talk to Devin for the first time since their split in front of a live audience.

If looks could kill, Devin wouldn't have left the "Bachelorette" finale in one piece. While Devin faced icy glares from the audience and Jenn herself, Jenn kept talking about how disrespected and heartbroken she felt.

She called him out for ending the engagement via phone call and explained that the next morning she woke up to news of Devin following girls on Instagram — but not random girls. Devin followed Maria, who was a competitor of Jenn's on Joey's season of "The Bachelor." Maria was also rumored to be in Jenn's seat as the current "Bachelorette" but turned the role down.

"Not only is that so disrespectful to everything we had shared together, I just don't understand why you would do something like that."

Devin didn't get many chances to speak between the live audience, Jenn and Jesse, but did take responsibility for his actions, saying he couldn't excuse his behavior.

"I'm not here to tell you you can't feel the way you feel. Obviously I failed you and there's nothing I can say other than that," Devin told Jenn. "Everything I felt for you was real..."

"I was very honest with you at every step and every doubt," Devin said.

"No you weren't, until last month," Jenn said.

After a lot more back-and-forth of Jenn berating Devin for promising a life to her and not following through, Devin maintained that he didn't lie to her in the moment but his feelings changed after the show. As the tense conversation panned out to fade into a commercial break, viewers could hear a quick snippet of Devin talking to himself, saying "What is going on here?" with a laugh.

The finale ended with a brutal turn — "Bachelor Nation" watched Jenn and Devin's live reactions to watching the footage from their emotional proposal.

"What do you think? Should we all watch it together?" Jesse asked Jenn.

"Do I have a choice?" she said.

The proposal was very emotional, with Jenn proposing to Devin and Devin proposing to her immediately after. The two rode away together, with no clue that just a few months later, they'd be in a heated discussion about their breakup on live television. In the corner of the screen, ABC showed Jenn and Devin's reactions to watching their proposal, which were solemn and tearful.

Based on the schedule of this season of “The Bachelor” thus far and the schedule for the last season of the show starring Joey Graziadei, Grant Ellis will likely hand out his final rose on Monday, March 31.

Here’s the schedule for the remaining episodes:

• Episode 6, Hometowns: March 3
• Episode 7: March 10
• Episode 8: March 17
• Episode 9: March 24
• Episode 10 (Finale): March 31

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Contributing: Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY