Former ‘Bachelor’ Casting Producer Jazzy Collins on Diversity, Matt James, and the Casting Process

Bachelor Party

The Ringer

Tv & Film

3.9 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Juliet is joined by former ‘Bachelor’ casting producer Jazzy Collins to talk about her open letter to ABC and ‘The Bachelor’ calling for a more diverse cast and production team, her thoughts on the show’s decision to cast Matt James as Bachelor, and what the process of casting contestants is like (1:10). Later, they talk about the future of casting for reality TV, Jazzy’s new job working for ‘The Circle,’ and the differences between contestants on and off air (29:00). Host: Juliet Litman Guest: Jazzy Collins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ranger Podcast Network, I'm Liz Kelly.
0:04.1	Make sure to subscribe to the Ringer's YouTube channel to watch the newest episode of Slow
0:07.8	News Day with Kevin Clark featuring NFL MVP Lamar Jackson, and an anticipation of the NBA's
0:13.7	return in late July, NBA desktop adjacent conception is back to posting weekly episodes.
0:19.9	Also up on our YouTube channel are the best clips taken from this week's Bill Simmons
0:23.2	podcast, Three Watchables, and Higher Learning with Rachel Lindsay and VanLathen.
0:27.8	You can find all these videos at youtube.com slash the Ringer.
0:46.8	Welcome to Bachelor Party, I'm Julie Aliment.
0:49.4	Tonight we revisited Ben, Finding Love with Lauren and then it didn't work out.
0:54.1	No, I think that was a painful break up.
0:55.4	But hey, she's married, he's engaged.
0:57.4	It's all good.
0:58.4	And as such, let's move on.
1:00.4	I love Ben, I've spent so much time on him, I wish him nothing was the best.
1:04.3	I'm sure he'll be back on this podcast again soon.
1:07.0	But instead, today I am joined by Jazzy Collins, former casting producer of the Bachelor and
1:12.2	the Bachelor at Jazzy.
1:13.2	Welcome.
1:14.2	Thank you, thank you for having me.
1:17.3	What seasons of the show did you work on?
1:19.5	So I started on Rachel's season and I was there for four seasons after that total of
1:25.6	five seasons ending with Hannah's season.
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