'The Bachelor 2016' news: Contestants vying for Ben Higgin's heart revealed

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The latest season of "The Bachelor" is only two months away, and fans of the franchise cannot wait to see who Ben Higgins will pick to be his fiancĂ©e by the end of the season. ABC has not released the names of the contestants for "The Bachelor 2016," but Reality Steve has the scoop on the 28 ladies who will be on the show next year. According to the website, among those vying for Ben's heart are twin sisters and two former contestants on Chris Soules' season.

Ben gained a lot of fans during Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of "The Bachelorette" for his gentlemanly ways, and lately more information has been released about the new Bachelor. It was reported that Ben is a Christian and that his faith is everything to him. He also does a lot of volunteer work and has even done some outside the country.  

Here are the names of all the contestants, according to Reality Steve:

Breanne Rice-  30-year-old Holistic Nutritional Therapy Practitioner from Seattle, Washington

Olivia Caridi - 23-year-old news anchor and reporter from Virginia

Becca Tilley - Becca was a runner up in Chris Soules' season of "The Bachelor"; she is 26 years old and from San Diego, California

Amber James - 30-year-old bartender from Chicago; she was also on Chris' season and on "Bachelor in Paradise 2"

Emily and Haley Ferguson - 23-year-old twins from Las Vegas, Nevada and they used to work as cocktail waitresses

Lauren Himes - 25 years old and a teacher at Novi Woods Elementary School in Novi, Michigan.

Lauren Barr - 23 years old and is a buyer for a fashion boutique; she lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma

Lauren Bushnell - Lauren is a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines; she is 25 years old and currently lives in LA

Caila Quinn - 23 years old and is from Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

Leah Block - 25 years old and an event coordinator from Denver, Colorado

Jen Saviano - 25 years old and runs an online clothing store; she lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Joelle Fletcher - 24 years and is from Dallas, Texas; she recently started her own real estate development company

Amanda Stanton - 25 years old and is from Orange County, California; she is a mom to two daughters aged 3 and 1

Jubilee Sharpe - 24-year-old former model from Miami, Florida

Rachel Tchen - 24-year-old from Little Rock, Arkansas

Lace Morris - 25-year-old real estate broker from Denver, Colorado

Lauren Russell - contestant from Houston, Texas, who, according to Reality Steve, was eliminated on the first night

Isabel Goodkind - 23-year-old freelance graphic design artist from New York

Jami Letain- 23-year-old from Vancouver, Canada; the website reports that she is friends with Kaitlyn Bristowe

Tiara Solem - 27-year-old dental assistant from Washington

Jackie Dion - 23-year-old from Los Angeles, California; just like Ben, she is said to be very involved in community work

Samantha Passmore - 26-year-old law clerk from Florida

Laura Esselman - 25-year-old account executive from Kentucky

Jessica Moser - 23-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida

Shushanna Mkrtychyan - 27-year-old from Salt Lake, Utah

Amanda Kremer - 28-year-old dentist from Portland, Oregon

Maegan Miller - 30-year-old from Texas

According to Reality Steve, the final four have already been selected by Ben and that he recently went to the ladies' respective hometowns.

Who will make a great first impression on Ben when he meets the ladies at the Bachelor mansion next year? Find out when "The Bachelor" returns to ABC in January 2016.