Photos: Winner of ABC's Bachelor Pad (Full Details)

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Bachelor Pad winners! David Good and Natalie Getz take home the $250,000 prize.

It was a fiercely fought competition with much back stabbing and tears. But David Good and Natalie Getz came out on top, beating out runners up Tinley Molzahn and Kiptyn Locke, to win the season one finale of ABC's Bachelor Pad and taking home $250,000 prize money between them. The couple were chosen by the shows previously eliminated contestants in a vote during the two-hour reunion show special which aired on US television last night.


Winners: Natalie Getz and Dave Good won ABC's The Bachelor Pad on Monday night taking home $250,000

After the vote the couple were then separated and tested again by being asked if they wanted to share the money or take it all for themselves.

Luckily both said they chose to share the winnings. Dave Good, 28, an entrepreneur from Dayton, Ohio voiced his excitement with the result. 'It feels fantastic and surreal to be a hundred-thousandaire. I hope I wake up tomorrow and it’s still real,' he said.

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'I thought we played the game well, but I was sweating it.' Dave claims he plans to use the money to promote his upcoming book, The Man Code, and finance a fun day for his hometown’s military families.

Runners-up: They beat Tinley Molzahn and Kiptyn Locke to the prize

His partner in crime, Natalie, 28, a bartender from Los Angeles admitted she had been nervous about the result.

'I could see my heart beating. It was a 50-50 shot,” she said. 'I kept doing the vote in my head trying to figure out who were our friends, but you don’t know what people would base their vote on.' Natalie will use her half to pay off student loans, start a prostrate cancer charity in honor of her dad, a survivor, and get a styling business off the ground.



[Crunch time: Both couples wait for the result which was voted on by the previously eliminated contestants

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The Bachelor is an American reality television dating game show debuting in 2002 on ABC. The show is hosted by former game show host and news anchor Chris Harrison.The fourteenth season, On the Wings of Love, premiered on January 4, 2010


About the show

The series revolves around a single bachelor (deemed eligible) and a pool of romantic interests (typically 25), which possibly includes a potential wife for the bachelor. The conflicts in the series, both internal and external, stem from the elimination-style format of the show. Early in the season, the bachelor goes on large group dates with the women, with the majority of women eliminated during rose ceremonies. As the season progresses, women are also eliminated on one-on-one dates and on elimination two-on-one dates. The process culminates with hometown visits to the families of the final four women, overnight dates at exotic locations with the final three women, and interaction with the bachelor's family and the final two women. In many cases, the bachelor proposes to his final selection.


The show is known for its twists, both structurally and contextually. In some cases, the bachelor may or may not follow the show's standard rose ceremony guidelines. Numerous bachelors, for instance, have conferred fewer roses than allotted as per standard rose ceremony procedure; others have eliminated both women on a two-on-one date. One bachelor, Brad Womack selected neither of his final two women. Another, Jason Mesnick proposed to one woman, and then changed his mind during the "After the Final Rose" show to the other finalist; Mesnick is now married to her. Other twists include a woman leaving the show for work-related reasons and the dismissal of one candidate for an alleged affair with an ex-producer of the show.


The show's success has led Producer Mike Fleiss to create multiple spin-offs, including The Bachelorette, in which the format is gender-reversed, and Bachelor Pad, where previous contestants compete in dating-themed eliminations for $250,000. Many bachelorettes are runner-ups or eliminated contestants from the Bachelor, including Trista Rehn, whose wedding to Ryan, the show's winner, was televised on ABC. The first season of Bachelor Pad premiered August 9, 2010, with the show including a number of Bachelor and Bachelorette cast-offs.



The elimination process

According to the summary on ABC.com, each new Bachelor episode contains a rose ceremony during which one or more contestants is eliminated. Eliminations are based upon date performance (i.e., how the women relate to the bachelor on the dates). The bachelor must follow a process of elimination wherein his pool of bachelorettes is narrowed down week by week by presenting a rose to each of the women he wishes to keep.


At any point during the process, if a woman decides she is no longer interested in the bachelor, she may leave. A few have actually done so over the course of the show.


In the end, the bachelor may select only one woman for the final rose. Several of the bachelors have proposed, and one bachelor selected no one.


As of the end of season 14, none of the bachelors has married the woman to whom he presented the final rose. The season 13 bachelor (Jason) ended up marrying his season's runner-up in February 2010; to this point, it is the only Bachelor season to result directly in marriage.



Ratings

Solid ratings throughout the twelve completed seasons have resulted from an average audience of nearly 10 million viewers, with some decline in the series' more recent seasons. While much of the series has aired on Wednesday nights, its ratings slide reversed somewhat with a move to Monday nights in January 2006.



Seasons

Season Year	Bachelor	Profile	Winner	Runner-Up	Proposal	Aftermath
1 2002	Alex Michel	Management consultant	Amanda Marsh	Trista Rehn	No	Michel did not propose to Marsh, but instead they took a chance at a relationship. Marsh and Michel broke up after several months, and Rehn was featured on the first season of The Bachelorette.
2 2002	Aaron Buerge	Vice President of a chain of family-owned banks	Helene Eksterowicz	Brooke Smith	Yes	They broke up after several months.[2] Buerge became engaged to Angye McIntosh and married in 2009.[3] Finalist Gwen Gioia became a contestant on the first season of Bachelor Pad.
3 2003	Andrew Firestone	Sales manager of Firestone Family estates	Jen Schefft	Kristen Baschbucher	Yes	Schefft and Firestone broke up after several months but remained friends.[4] He is now married to actress Ivana Bozilovic.[5] Schefft was featured on the third season of The Bachelorette.
4 2003	Bob Guiney	Creator of a mortgage company and former suitor on The Bachelorette	Estella Gardinier	Kelly Jo Kuharski	No	Guiney did not propose to Gardinier but she accepted a promise ring indicating that they would still date. They broke up shortly after the show aired.[6] Guiney later married soap opera star Rebecca Budig, but they split after five years of marriage.[7] Meredith Phillips, who came fourth, was featured on the second season of The Bachelorette.
5 2004	Jesse Palmer	Canadian American college football player	Jessica Bowlin	Tara Huckeby[8]	No	Palmer did not propose to Bowlin. They continued to date but broke up several months later.[9]
6 2004	Byron Velvick	Pro bass fisherman and divorced father	Mary Delgado	Tanya Michel	Yes	Velvick and Delgado split after five years.[10]
7 2005	Charlie O'Connell	Actor	Sarah Brice	Krisily Kennedy	No	O'Connell chose Sarah Brice to be the winner but he did not propose to her. Instead they took a chance at a relationship. They broke up in September 2007,[11] but got back together in 2008.[12] However, they called it quits again in 2010.[13] Runner-up Kennedy became a contestant on the first season of Bachelor Pad.
Paris 2006	Travis Lane Stork	Medical doctor	Sarah Stone	Moana Dixon	No	Stork did not propose to Stone. They decided to take a chance at just a relationship. They broke up shortly after the show aired.[14] Stork is now featured on The Doctors.
Rome 2006	Prince Lorenzo Borghese	Cosmetics entrepreneur	Jennifer Wilson	Sadie Murray	No	Borghese did not propose to Wilson. They took a chance at a relationship, and they broke up in January 2007.[15]
Officer and a Gentleman 2007	Andrew Baldwin	US Naval Officer	Tessa Horst	Bevin Nicole Powers	Yes	Horst and Baldwin called off their engagement one month after the finale,[16] but continued their relationship. They broke off the relationship in September 2007.[17] Finalist Peyton Wright became a contestant on the first season of Bachelor Pad.
11 2007	Brad Womack	Bar owner	None	DeAnna Pappas and Jenni Croft	No	Womack chose Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas as the two finalists, but they were both rejected in the season's finale.[18] Pappas was featured on the fourth season of The Bachelorette.
London Calling 2008	Matt Grant	Global financier	Shayne Lamas	Chelsea Wanstrath	Yes	Grant and Lamas broke up in July 2008.[19]
13 2009	Jason Mesnick	Account executive, single father, and former suitor on The Bachelorette	Melissa Rycroft	Molly Malaney	Yes	On the season's finale, Mesnick had called off the engagement with Rycroft, and resumed a relationship with runner-up Malaney. Rycroft later appeared on Dancing With the Stars and is now married to Tye Strickland. They are expecting their first child in February 2011.[20][21] On October 20, 2009, Mesnick proposed to Malaney in New Zealand, which she accepted. They were married on February 27, 2010, in California.[22] Mesnick and Malaney's wedding aired on national television on March 8, 2010.[23] Third-place finalist Jillian Harris was featured on the fifth season of The Bachelorette. Finalists Nikki Kaapke and Natalie Getz became contestants on the first season of Bachelor Pad.
On the Wings of Love 2010	Jake Pavelka	Commercial pilot and former suitor on The Bachelorette	Vienna Girardi	Tenley Molzahn	Yes	They ended their relationship in June 2010.[24] Pavelka appeared as a celebrity contestant on the tenth season of Dancing With the Stars. Fourth-place finalist Ali Fedotowsky was featured on the sixth season of The Bachelorette. Runner-up Molzahn, along with finalists Elizabeth Kitt, Gia Allemand, Michelle Kujawa, Jessie Sulidis and Ashley Elmore, became contestants on the first season of Bachelor Pad.