There’s a distinct chance that Bachelor producers are just throwing us off their scent, but last night Bachelor Ben Higgins flashed an engagement ring (after shedding an alarming number of tears and inexplicably pulling out a cell phone?) so we’re going to talk about that (maybe) Bachelor engagement ring.
Here are two shots of the engagement ring in the previews we saw last night for the weeks ahead. Looks like a princess-cut center stone (although it could be radiant-cut) in a halo.
It’s hard to tell exactly what the side-stone situation is, but it looks like it could be some combination of baguettes set in different directions, as with these rings, both from Neil Lane’s couture collection:
Although the ringBen’s holding might have two sides stone flush on either set of the halo with another diamond set into the band on both sides. Of course all this discussion could be in pointless: If you remember two seasons ago, Chris Soules flashed this ring in a preview:
And then proposed to Whitney Bischoff with this ring:
Of course, the Prince Farming fake-out ring looked pretty fake. The Bachelor has never had an engagement ring with a center stone that’s under a carat, and the cameras were so zoomed in on the ring that we couldn’t tell whose hands they were. But with Ben’s maybe-engagement-ring, that’s definitely the shirt-tie-jacket combo he’s wearing when he has his teary meltdown. Yes, the producers could have handed him a red herring engagement ring to paw at as he blubbered, but we’re kind of thinking the preview ring is the real deal.
For more on last night’s Bachelor, read Bachelor: Bay of Pigs.
And for more on the franchise that’s held our hearts through 2,519 seasons: A Statistical Analysis of Love on The Bachelor.