The Bachelorette viewers will have to wait a little longer for Desiree Hartsock's season to debut.
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ABC has announced the ninth-season premiere of The Bachelorette has been pushed back a week. While it was initially scheduled to air on May 20, Hartsock's edition of the reality dating show will now premiere on Monday, May 27 at 8PM ET/PT.
The network's new scripted series Motive will debut on May 20 instead of The Bachelorette following Dancing with the Stars' final sixteenth-season performance show. Motive will then move to Thursday nights beginning on May 23.
Motive was originally set to debut after Dancing with the Stars' final results show on May 21. However, that spot will now be filled with a recap show of the reality dancing competition at 8PM ET followed by its two-hour finale.
Hartsock, a 26-year-old bridal stylist from Los Angeles, CA, began filming her The Bachelorette season last month.
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Hartsock was cut by seventeenth-season The Bachelor star Sean Lowe during the show's February 18 broadcast after he visited the hometowns of his final four bachelorettes and met their families.
Lowe's season concluded with him selecting Catherine Giudici over Lindsay Yenter and the couple getting engaged.
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