On the latest episode of Bachelor in Paradise, romance ran rampant for some popular Bachelor franchise castoffs, but not for everyone.
Picking up in the wake of Chad’s epic meltdown, Bachelor in Paradise Season 3 Episode 2 saw the remaining couples looking for love.
And it also saw the return of a former feud between male suitors.
With Chad out of the controversial picture, ABC decided to bring Leah Block back into the mix. You remember her, right?
This was the same Leah Block from Ben Higgins’ season The Bachelor, the one who tried to talk sh-t to Lauren Bushnell about Higgins…
… only for her plot to backfire, for Ben to send her home and for Ben and Lauren to end up engaged. Oops!
This time around, Leah was the one being talked about behind her back, with Lace especially making jokes about her possible lip injections.
But Leah didn’t care.
She was only focused on Chad Johnson and being upset that he was sent home last week because she wanted to go out with him.
Yes, that Chad Johnson.
Without that nut job around, Leah asked out Nick, much to Amanda’s chagrin. And off they went to Festival de Margaritas.
They proceeded to do what we’d imagine anyone would do at such an aptly-named event: get drunk and make out.
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Then they went home, Nick discovered had his own date card to hand out … and he asked Amanda on a date. HA!
Amazing. Hilarious. So very Bachelor in Paradise, right?
Now, much to Leah’s chagrin, Nick and Amanda hit the town for dinner and then made out by a bonfire on the beach.
By the time they got back to the residence, these two were pretty much coupled off.
While this weird, quasi threesome was taking place, new couples were forming back at the house.
We’re talking about Carly and Evan (really?) to Lace and Grant (how?).
As for Carly? She wondered what it would be like to get to first base with Evan. This spit swap led to contrasting reactions:
Evan: “Kissing Carly for the first time was incredible. I kissed Carly and I was just like, ‘I just want to kiss you some more!’ It was butterflies and explosions. It was a perfect kiss.”
Carly: “That kiss was so terrible. I don’t understand how this man has two children.”
Lace and Grant snuck away to a bedroom for some alone time while this craziness was going down. Seems worth mentioning.
Leah proceeded to cover a camera with a blanket, forcing the show to feature crabs walking around the beach to sounds of Lace moaning.
Let’s just move on, shall we?
By the time the cocktail party rolled around, the group could not have been more of a total and complete mess.
The only solid couples were Nick and Amanda, Grant and Lace and Evan and Carly.. if you can even count the latter, considering Carly’s reaction to their smooch.
Desperate, the girls made the rounds and tried to convince the guys to give them a rose.
This somehow led to Leah making a move on Daniel.
The concluding event featured Grant giving his rose to Lace, Nick giving his to Amanda and Evan giving his to Carly.
Jared gave his to Emily, which meant twin Haley also got to stick around.
Then it was Vinny’s turn, and he ended up selecting Izzy, much to Sarah’s dismay. The final rose was Daniel’s, who handed it to Sarah.
This all meant that Jubilee and Leah were sent packing.
The next morning Josh Murray showed up! Hooray!
Remember: he and Nick were both contestants on Andy Dorfman’s The Bachelorette season in 2014.
After Josh won and got engaged to the beauty, Nick turned bitter. But then Josh and Ali broke up and Andy released a memoir that tore Josh to bits.
Josh, therefore, went straight for Amanda upon entering the house. He had asked her out within, like, minutes of his arrival and they were soon making out on a sailboat.
Nick sadly wandered up and down the beach back at the house… until, that is, these two returned from their date.
Nick: “When I gave my rose to Amanda last night, I felt really good that we were all on the same page. We both agreed that we had this connection. I think she’s great.”
Josh: “Yeah, she’s amazing for sure. We had an incredible time today, just so you know.”
Nick: “I’ve never seen someone so unapologetic for just being an ass for no reason.” Well, he’s not wrong.”
When do these two get their own show?!?
Then, Nick and Josh walked back over to the rest of the group – and Josh planted a huge fat kiss on Amanda in front of everyone.
No, thank YOU, Chris.
We’ll be back to watch Bachelor in Paradise online again on Tuesday night at 8/7c when ABC airs a special Tuesday episode.