As fans know, making a memorable first impression in the Bachelor franchise matters. That’s why contestants do their best to steal the spotlight with wild limo entrances. In the Season 26 premiere of Clayton Echard’s season, they outdid themselves. Here are the standouts.
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Innuendo is always a popular move for Bachelor entrances, and that’s what Kate Gallivan went with when she asked Clayton to “hold her nips.” Of course, she just meant her tiny alcohol bottles, aka nips. She still got a big shock out of Clayton before they took a shot together.
Jane Paik made a big deal out of being an older woman and a cougar, which was pretty wild since she’s only 33 years old.
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An *actually* older woman named Holly also made a limo entrance, but it turns out, she was only there to serve as the wing woman for contestant Rachel Reccia.
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Ivana Noble decided to let her actions speak for her by remaining completely silent throughout her entire entrance. Her miming didn’t really work out for her, though, because she was eliminated during the first rose ceremony.
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Kira is a physician, and she wanted to highlight her career through her limo entrance. I’m sure Kira usually wears a bit more than just her lab coat and doesn’t always offer people full-body physicals everywhere she goes, but it made for a memorable entrance.
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Gabby Windey made her intentions with Clayton very clear when she explained that she brought a pillow with Clayton’s picture on it because wants to be able to “sit on his face.” It seemed Clayton did not know how to react to this one.
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Hunter went wild — literally — by carrying snake around her shoulders into the Bachelor Mansion.
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Samantha Jeffries made her entrance with the help of a few production assistants who wheeled her in while she took a bubble bath. Samantha wound up self-eliminating Night 1, but Bachelor Nation will always remember her entrance.
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Shanae Ankney made her presence known in a big way by driving a giant truck right up to the Bachelor Mansion. It definitely made more of a statement than your typical limo.
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Jill Chen went for a combination of enticing and slightly threatening for her entrance. She arrived with an urn that she told Clayton was filled with the ashes of her ex-boyfriends. I guess fans just have to hope things work out between her and Clayton.
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Season 26 of The Bachelor continues Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.