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The Bachelor Mansion has been sitting in Agoura Hills, California since 2007 without a major update. Jesse Palmer put it plainly in a recent interview with Extra: “It’s an iconic place and is one of the most famous houses, really, in TV history, but if you’ve been watching for years and years and years, it’s in need of a bit of a makeover.”
HGTV apparently agreed. The network tapped Bachelor Nation itself to do the renovating, bringing 12 former contestants back to the house where many of them had their most televised moments and handing them power tools.
The Show
Per the show’s official synopsis, “Bachelor Mansion Takeover” is a six-episode HGTV competition series hosted by Jesse Palmer, featuring 12 former contestants from “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette”, “The Golden Bachelor,” and “The Golden Bachelorette” — each with real home renovation and design experience — competing in weekly elimination challenges to transform the mansion’s most iconic rooms. Judging each episode were Season 16 Bachelorette Tayshia Adams and Season 15 runner-up Tyler Cameron, joined by a rotating guest judge from Bachelor Nation or the HGTV family. The winner takes home $100,000.
Palmer framed the stakes clearly from the start: “For the first time ever, we’re pulling back the curtain and revealing the mansion as you’ve never seen it before. Our 12 contestants have already lived through the twists and turns of The Bachelor franchise. They know this is not going to be easy. And the clock is ticking because this renovation has to be finished before a new season of The Bachelorette begins.”
The Cast
The 12 competitors brought a genuine range of renovation credentials. Jill Chin is a professional architectural historian from Newport, Rhode Island. Joan Vassos, the first-ever lead of “The Golden Bachelorette,” founded Metropolitan Interiors and works as an interior designer. Noah Erb, who appeared on “The Bachelorette” Season 16 and married his “Bachelor in Paradise” co-star Abigail Heringer in 2024, has been actively renovating his own home and doing demo work himself, according to HGTV. The rest of the cast — Dean Bell, Allyshia Gupta, Tammy Ly, Sandra Mason, Sam McKinney, Brendan Morais, Courtney Robertson Preciado, Jeremy Simon, and Christopher Stallworth — each brought their own design backgrounds to the competition.
Per Bachelor Nation, Fellow Bachelor Nation stars watched from the outside in. Susie Evans posted on her Instagram Story: “Okay I just tuned in!! Who else is watching?” Noah himself reflected on the surreal nature of the whole thing: “My younger self who wanted to go on @hgtv had no idea it would be because of The Bachelorette.”
The Rooms
The renovation covered the mansion’s most recognizable spaces — the bunk rooms, the Rose Ceremony Room, the pool area, the mixer room, the terrace, and the kitchen, which had gone untouched for 20 years, per HGTV. The show also revealed parts of the mansion that have never appeared on camera in the franchise’s entire history.
“There are so many spaces inside the mansion that we’ve never shown on TV before,” Palmer told Extra. “There’s actually places in the house that I didn’t even know existed. This show really is going to, in a lot of ways, sort of pull the curtain back for our fans and viewers at home.”
Tayshia Adams spoke to Parade and described her own complicated feelings returning to the property: “When I say you black out, you truly black out. I had no idea what I said to Colton Underwood. I was kind of spinning. I didn’t know where I was. The house is truly the last thing on your mind.”
The Winner — and the Fan Questions
Noah Erb won “Bachelor Mansion Takeover” Season 1, with his work across the mansion — including the kitchen renovation he tackled alongside finalist Tammy Ly — earning him the title and the $100,000 prize.
The fans have questions. Chief among them: will the new-look mansion feel like the same show? The Rose Ceremony Room in particular has been one of the most recognizable sets in reality TV history. Changing it, even thoughtfully, invites the very reasonable concern that “The Bachelor” franchise just renovated part of its own mythology. Palmer says the house has a “totally new look.” Whether Bachelor Nation considers that a feature or a bug remains to be seen when a new season of “The Bachelorette” films there.
“Bachelor Mansion Takeover” Season 1 is available to stream on HGTV and discovery+.
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