The 3rd season of Bachelor Pad premiered on July 23, 2012.
The show stars men and women eliminated from various seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette who compete for a $250,000 prize. The show may also represent "a second chance at finding love" for those rejected by previous Bachelors and Bachelorettes.
The contestants live together in a mansion and take part in challenges to prevent elimination, go on dates with contestants of their choice, and choose other contestants to eliminate.
This season was the show's last.
The winner of season three was Nick Peterson.
Contestants[]
The season began with 21 contestants (Six of the contestants were so-called super fans; two of the super fans are twin sisters.)
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28
Hoboken, New Jersey
None; appeared only as super fan
Eliminated in episode 4
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22
Hackensack, New Jersey
None; appeared only as super fan
Eliminated in episode 3
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22
Gainesville, Florida
None; appeared only as super fans
Quit in episode 2
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28
Canton, Georgia
None; appeared only as super fan
Eliminated in episode 1
Elimination chart[]
| Place | Contestant | Episodes | Finale | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Votes | |||
| 1 | Nick | Last | In | Date | Last | In | Last | In | Win | Winner | Keep |
| 2 | Rachel | In | Safe | Win | Safe | In | Last | In | Win | Out | Share |
| 3-4 | Chris | In | Safe | In | Safe | In | Win | Win | Last | Out | |
| Sarah | In | In | In | Date | In | Win | Win | Last | Out | ||
| 5-6 | Ed | In | Last | Last | Win | In | Date | In | Out | Rachel & Nick | |
| Jaclyn | In | In | In | Win | Safe | Date | In | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||
| 7-8 | Tony | In | In | Date | In | Win | Safe | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||
| Blakeley | In | Win | Last | Last | Win | Safe | Out | Rachel & Nick | |||
| 9-10 | Kalon | In | In | In | In | Safe | Out | Chris & Sarah | |||
| Lindzi | In | Date | In | In | Last | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||||
| 11 | Michael | In | Win | Safe | In | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||||
| 12 | Erica R. | Last | In | Date | In | Out | Chris & Sarah | ||||
| 13-14 | David | Win | Date | Win | Out | Chris & Sarah | |||||
| Jamie | In | In | Safe | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||||||
| 15-16 | Reid | In | In | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||||||
| Donna | In | Date | Out | Rachel & Nick | |||||||
| 17 | Ryan | In | Out | Rachel & Nick | |||||||
| 18 | Taltos Twins | Win | Quit | Rachel & Nick | |||||||
| 19-20 | Paige | Out | Rachel & Nick | ||||||||
| SWAT | Out | Rachel & Nick | |||||||||
| The contestant is male. | |
| The contestant is female. |
| The contestant won the competition and kept the entire prize for him/herself. | |
| The contestant won a challenge and was granted immunity. | |
| The contestant won a challenge and was not granted immunity. They chose who to eliminate. | |
| The contestant went on a date and was given a rose by a challenge winner, thus getting immunity. | |
| The contestant did not go on a date but was given a rose by a challenge winner, thus getting immunity. | |
| The contestant went on a date but was not given a rose on the date. | |
| The contestant received a rose at the end of the episode, thus remaining in the competition. | |
| The contestant received the last rose. | |
| The contestant went on a date and received the last rose. | |
| The contestant was eliminated by another contestant/team. | |
| The contestant was chosen to be eliminated by the eliminated contestant. | |
| The contestant was eliminated. | |
| The contestant voluntarily left the show. |
Where are they now?[]
Nick Peterson dated Samantha Steffen whom he met on the 2nd season of Bachelor in Paradise. They broke up in October 2015.
Erica Rose welcomed a daughter, Holland Rose Madeleine Gentry, on September 19, 2016, with former fiance Galen Gentry. She is now married to Charles Sanders and goes by the name Erica Rose Sanders. On March 23, 2018, they announced that they are expecting their first child in August 2018. Their daughter, Aspen Rose, was born on August 1, 2018.
Rachel Truehart is married to Ronnie Lustberg. They have a son, Colton James, born on May 13, 2018.
Chris Bukowski was engaged to Katie Morton whom he met on the 6th season of Bachelor in Paradise. They announced their break-up on December 10, 2019. He had a brief relationship with Katrina Badowski.
Ed Swiderski married Natalie Bomke in July 2015.
Tony Pieper and Blakeley Jones got engaged at the After Show. They broke off the engagement soon after.
Jamie Otis met her husband, Doug Hehner, when she appeared on the first season of Married at First Sight in 2014. On July 5, 2016, they announced that they were expecting their first child. They lost the baby at 17 weeks. They named their child Jonathan Edward. On January 31, 2017, they announced that they were again expecting a child, later revealed to be a girl, Henley Grace, who was born on August 22, 2017. Their son, Hendrix Douglas, was born on May 13, 2020.