Alexandra Coulet, 19 years after “The Bachelor”: “For life, you are stuck with an idiot label”

Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, Alexandra Coulet received a rose. A velvet red flower that she accepts, under the eyes of Stéphane Rotenberg and 4 million strangers. It’s the final of Bachelor, on M6, and the “single gentleman”, business manager and ideal son-in-law with a cut jaw like his suits, has made his choice: among the twenty girls who have tried to seduce him, Olivier Siroux asks for the hand of this 21-year-old student from Geneva. We are in the spring of 2003, Alexandra accepts, and wins one of the first French reality shows. Without the hindsight necessary to realize what is happening to him.