The day trader appeared on Jenn Tran's season of 'The Bachelorette' Disney/Ricky Middlesworth ’s season of hasn’t wrapped yet, but Bachelor Nation already has a new love story to look forward to watching. ABC announced on Monday, Aug. 12, that Grant Ellis, who appeared on 26-year-old Tran's season, will step in as the lead of season 29.
Ellis, 30, will be taking the reigns from the latest Bachelor, , who to . The day trader marks the franchise's second Black Bachelor, with being the first. Related: The news comes after Tran, 26, eliminated Ellis, Spencer Conley and Sam McKinnley on the Aug.
12 episode of . Tran said “goodbye” to Ellis after he told her he was falling in love with her. “I poured everything out and it wasn't good enough,” he told the cameras.
“It just sucks knowing that you feel some way about somebody, and they don’t feel the same about you.” John Fleenor/Disney Just like Tran, Ellis narrowly missed out on heading to Hometowns, "I want a family, you know?" he said on the Aug. 12 episode of .
"I want to be happy. I want a wife. I want to be in love.
I want that, you know? I want to give everything to somebody, and I want them to give everything to me in return. I don't know what else to say. I did not think that was going to happen tonight.
" Conley, 30, took the departure hard, too. “Jenn’s the first person I’ve met since my last breakup where I’ve seen the path towards an engagement and losing that stings,” he said. “It’s just e.