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The first ever Golden Bachelor “Women Tell All” special aired on Thursday, November 9, and despite contestants Joan, Ellen, and Faith joining Jesse Palmer on stage to discuss their journey, the real stars of the hour were Natascha’s chair earrings.
The warm, hilarious 60-year-old aging coach from New York City was sadly eliminated in Episode 2, but her parting comments to producers have resonated with members of Bachelor Nation ever since. “Do the rose ceremony in chairs,” she said. “You have people 60, 70, and above. They have chair exercise [and] chair aerobics. Chair rose ceremony.”
Decider previously called out The Golden Bachelor for doing its senior contestants dirty with a glaring lack of accessibility shown through late-night driving dates, bunk bed sleeping accommodations, and the standing rose ceremonies. And even after Natascha’s comments, producers failed to bring chairs to the rose ceremonies for the remainder of the season, hence Natascha’s “chairrings.”
The contestant showed up to the “Women Tell All” special looking stunning with red lips, a bright yellow dress, a green statement necklace, and green folding chair earrings to match. She showed the jewelry off for cameras during the episode, and The Golden Bachelor Twitter account also posted a video of Natascha responding to a fan comment that read, “Natascha asking for chairs when she really deserves a throne.”
“OOoooh, yes baby. Yes! I do deserve a throne,” she said. “Charrings, honey. This is because we need to have chairs during the rose ceremony. At 60, 70, and above we deserve to have chairs instead of standing.” And she’s right!
The bloopers portion of the “Women Tell All” episode showed the women collapsing from exhaustion mid-rose ceremony filming and making comments such as, “My feet are killing me,” “We need to sit down,”“These things should have carpet on them so my feet don’t hurt.”
The women actually took a moment to sit on the rose ceremony risers, which prompted one contestant to ask, “Can we do it from this position?” There was yawning, complaining, and clear pain in their voices, so Natascha’s chairrings better encourage producers to implement sitting rose ceremonies next time around. Plus, Bachelor Nation loved the statement-making accessories.
Natascha and Gerry may not have been endgame, but she proved herself to be an absolute icon and queen of sensibility, not to mention she crafted a solid argument that should inspire the franchise to permanently change their rose ceremony setup for every Golden series.
New episodes of The Golden Bachelor premiere Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC, with next-day streaming on Hulu.
