Mayim Bialik Doesn’t Know ‘Premise’ of The Bachelor, Asks What Happens ‘If Somebody Gets Pregnant’ During Fantasy Suites

Mayim Bialik has some questions about The Bachelor.

The actress and neuroscientist, 49, appeared on a recent episode of The Viall Files podcast, on which she revealed she didn’t know how the hit ABC dating show worked. When host Nick Viall asked for her opinions on the women on the upcoming season, Bialik had a shocking response.

“What’s the premise?” she asked The Bachelorette alum, 44.

“Twenty-five to 30 women show up and night one they come out,” Viall then explained. “Sometimes, people [are] like myself; I blacked out and was really nervous. Some people hang glide down.”

“The producer was like, ‘So, what do you want to do?’ I was like, ‘Well, I was just going to introduce myself,’” he recalled. “They’re like, ‘Well, we’re not sure, but if you want to parachute in or something, like, you never know.’ Sometimes they will do a stunt.”

Viall went on to tell Bialik how the lead narrows down the group.

“Night one, they get anywhere from zero seconds to two minutes of time to make a connection,” he said. “One person gets what’s called the ‘first impression rose,’ they’re safe. At the end of the night, the Bachelor hands out a bunch of roses and if you don’t get a rose, you go home.”

“By the end of it, he proposes to one person and gets engaged,” Viall’s wife Natalie Joy added.

As the final rose ceremony approaches, Viall noted that they have “hometown week” and “fantasy suite week,” which particularly sparked Bialik’s interest.

“What if someone gets pregnant?” The Big Bang Theory alum questioned. 

“We’ve been hoping!” Viall joked, and Joy said, “That would be so funny.”

“On my season, there were a couple [magazine] covers… claiming that I might have gotten one of the people pregnant,” Viall recalled. “That was a rumor.”

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Viall has a long history with The Bachelor franchise, first joining Bachelor nation for Andi Dorfman’s season of The Bachelorette in 2014. He was the runner up, with Dorfman ultimately choosing Josh Murray.

Viall later appeared on Kaitlyn Bristowe’s season in 2015, showing up to a group date in the fourth episode asking to join as a contestant. Bristowe let him, and he once again came in as the runner up.

He then led the third season of Bachelor in Paradise, which aired in 2017, which concluded with him proposing to Vanessa Grimaldi, but the two parted ways soon after. In April 2024, Viall and Joy tied the knot after welcoming their first child together.