Is The Bachelor Ready To Face Its Past?
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Is reality TV finally facing reality? Last night’s The Bachelorette 'Men Tell-All' episode hit all the usual topics. Heartbreak, who lied, and who’s a lousy kisser. But when current Bachelorette Katie Thurston sat down with the men she sent home, one topic was definitely front-and-center: Will the wildly popular franchise bounce back from its racial controversies and make the positive change it needs to make?
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| 0:00.0 | So the very first season of The Bachelor began in the spring of 2002, 19 years ago. |
| 0:13.2 | So Ereisha, I'm curious, what were you doing back then? |
| 0:15.9 | Signing hags and yearbooks? |
| 0:18.2 | What? |
| 0:18.7 | I don't know what hags are. |
| 0:19.6 | Have a great summer. |
| 0:20.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:22.3 | Well, over the years, the Bachelor Bachelorette franchise has given us plenty of proposals, heartbreaks, |
| 0:28.4 | hometown dates, and even a few Bachelor babies, but it hasn't exactly been groundbreaking television, if you know what I mean. |
| 0:36.5 | Right, but 2021 has been a year of reckoning for Bachelor Nation. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, so after a scandal involving racist remarks led to longtime host Chris Harrison's exit from the series, |
| 0:48.0 | fans are left wondering what the future holds for their favorite reality dating show. |
| 0:53.0 | And with the finale of the current Bachelorette season looming, |
| 0:56.0 | I think you gotta wonder what's next? |
| 0:58.0 | I mean, can the franchise really actually change? |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, signs may point to yes hopefully. From |
| 1:06.6 | Wundery I'm Brooke Sifran and I'm Ereisha Skinner Williams. Today is |
| 1:11.0 | Tuesday July 27th. |
| 1:13.0 | And you're listening to Rich and Daily. |
| 1:15.0 | Pop-A-Roxy |
| 1:17.0 | Flumers Fly on top of the world on a diamond high. |
| 1:22.0 | I see that hair toss give me that sauce. We got the hot sauce. |
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