Bachelor star Brad Womack says Ellen DeGeneres eventually apologized after calling him a 'jerk' on her show
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Former Bachelor star Brad Womack is looking back at his difficult appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. During an appearance this week on the Almost Famous podcast, Womack, 52, recalled 'bomb[ing]' when he appeared on the 66-year-old comedian's since-ended talk show after he opted not to choose a woman to give a rose to at the end of The Bachelor season 11 in 2007.
![[Womack said he 'bombed' on DeGeneres' show, though he said she later apologized to him when he returned to promote his second time as The Bachelor on season 15; pictured in January 2020 in LA]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94413599-14315287-image-a-2_1737592061497.jpg)
'She called me a jerk the first season because I didn’t pick anybody,' he told the podcast's hosts, Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti. However, Womack added that DeGeneres — who was recently seen back in Southern California after moving to England 'for good' — had apologized to him when he later appeared on her show to promote his second stint on The Bachelor for 2011's season 15, which ended with him choosing Emily Maynard, though they split up not long after the show wrapped.
![[Womack had been left to choose between the finalists DeAnna Pappas and Jenni Croft, but he ultimately decided not to choose either woman. In season 15 he chose Emily Maynard (pictured), but they broke up shortly afterward]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94414379-14315287-image-a-3_1737592968489.jpg)
DailyMail.com has reached out to a representative for DeGeneres. 'I went on Ellen and I just bombed. I mean, I just bombed,' Womack said emphatically on the podcast. 'Even the publicist at the time kinda gave me the puppy eyes, like, "Oh, that didn’t go so well."'.
![['[Ellen] didn’t cut me any slack, of course, and the audience wasn’t having it. It was a bad appearance,' he recalled. 'But yeah, she did call me a jerk, but thank god she apologized'; pictured in January 2020 in LA]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94413591-14315287-image-a-4_1737592972677.jpg)
Former Bachelor star Brad Womack, 52, looked back on Ellen DeGeneres, 66, calling him a 'jerk' on her eponymous talk show after he opted not to hand out a final rose on The Bachelor season 11 in 2007; seen in 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Womack said he 'bombed' on DeGeneres' show, though he said she later apologized to him when he returned to promote his second time as The Bachelor on season 15; pictured in January 2020 in LA.
![[The hosts asked Womack why he thought DeGeneres had apologized to him, and he suggested that she 'got the other side of the story.' He added that he 'didn't want to sell out']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/00/94413607-14315287-image-a-5_1737592982945.jpg)
