The Bachelor Grant Ellis' paint by numbers debut may be a good thing

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"As a rule, taking things for granted is a surefire way to grow stale or complacent," says Savannah Walsh. "But Monday’s Bachelor premiere wisely leans into the familiar beats of a generic Bachelor season, and the refreshing nature of Ellis, a 31-year-old day trader from Houston who became the franchise’s second-ever Black male lead after the 2020 selection of Matt James. (In an awkward bit of timing, James just recently split from his season’s winner, Rachael Kirkconnell, who elected to tell her side of the breakup on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast.) After his time as an affable but largely underexposed contestant on Jenn Tran’s Bachelorette season, Ellis enters his own love story as something of a blank slate. He’s a former professional basketball player whose career was cut short by injury. Ellis’s outlook on life and love has been informed by his parents’ divorce and father’s longtime recovery from addiction. In opening remarks to his 25 suitors, Ellis shares that he admires a woman’s strength and intuition because of his mother, who signed him up for the show." ALSO: Grant Ellis admits: "Honestly, I didn’t know a lot about the franchise."