The Bachelorette — strip dodgeball, anyone? — but Ben Smith revealed it was totally his decision to bare it all the Tuesday, December 1, episode of the ABC series.‘ “The art date allowed me to express myself in the other ways,” the 29-year-old personal trainer explained to Becca Kufrin and Rachel Lindsay on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast. “Taking my clothes off was a literal and figurative dropping of my guard.