The Insider.com

After snagging the runner-up seat on The Bachelorette, Ben Flanjnik will get another chance at televised romance, this time as ABC's Bachelor.

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And Ben wasted no time getting friendly (and by friendly, I mean naked) with one of his potential mates. The 28-year-old winemaker is shown stripping down and skinny-dipping in an extended promo, which you can see at EW.com.

The new season of The Bachelor, complete with bare-butt nudity, premieres on January 2, 2012.