LOS ANGELES — Typically, a throng of beautiful, mid-20s women excitedly giggling and waving is the stuff of boy-band lore or bad Hollywood script writing.
But this is Jesse Palmer, so this is Wednesday afternoon.
His welcome is the type of earned experience that comes with being a handsome television star, and one you witness multiple variations of over the course of a few days together.
You’re deep in the canyons of Malibu, Palmer carefully steering his Audi rental car toward a remote ranch and popular filming location. In a little more than 24 hours, he will appear in a previously filmed three-hour block on ABC primetime television, first as the suit-clad host of the new “Golden Bachelor,” then in a breezy linen button-up on “Bachelor In Paradise.” But today you’re on site for Season 28 of “The Bachelor” proper, set to air in early 2024, where one lucky young man will venture to find love among an even larger throng of those women you drove past on the way in. Collectively, it provides a convenient snapshot of the unabating cycle that is “The Bachelor” and its brood of love-curious spin-offs.
Palmer knows this terrain well, having starred as “The Bachelor” himself almost two decades ago. Now at age 45, with flecks of seasoned gray throughout his…
