Spoilers ahead for "The Bachelor". Delta pilot Peter Weber, who jumped into Hannah Brown's heart (yes, I made an aviation pun, sorry) during the season of "The Bachelor" and made it to the top four before being eliminated, is the 2020 Bachelor (opens in new tab). zen attitude and personality will likely mean there will be a strong female contestant who will bring some drama. One contestant who is already getting spoilerish buzz as the most likely candidate for this season is Kelly Flanagan, and it's a fun fact, she actually met Weber before the show and totally hit it off.

Talk about an advantage: she actually had a chance to have an organic conversation with him before the awkward intro on the first day. And so far, she has proven to have staying power. So what do we know so far?

According to LinkedIn (opens in new tab), she works for Flanagan Bilton LLC in Chicago (opens in new tab). Like Hannah Bama, she graduated from the University of Alabama (marketing) and earned her law degree in Chicago. If my math is correct, judging by her graduation date, she is 27 years old, close in age to Weber.

Oh, intriguing! (If you've seen "Bachelor in Paradise," aka the almighty sex-fest between former contestants, it's not exactly "Stagecoach," though.) Spoilers tell us that Flanagan met Weber (open in new tab) at a wedding in Malibu in August. They really hit it off, and she apparently told him honestly that she would be on his next season.

Weber's season premiere revealed that Flanagan was not the only one who thought they hit it off. Weber tells her that he hasn't been able to stop thinking about her since they met. In other words, he's glad she showed up. He probably expects to be engaged in about 10 weeks. It's a sweet, legitimate, un-Bachelor-like way to meet.

It's unclear if anything romantic happened then, but if it did, I can assure you that someone has already spoiled the story. Also, imagine that Peter Webber was at a wedding you happened to be attending?

So, at the first group date, the women were dressed in flight suits while Weber was dressed just like the pilot in "Top Gun" (see photos here (opens in new tab)). The women also donned life vests, climbed slides, and apparently had slime. Photos here, but apparently Flanagan was the winner. So that means she's athletic, right? And her prize was to fly one-on-one with Weber (photos here (opens in new tab)). Afterwards, the two hugged, and obviously she got the rose.

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