SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Season 27, Episode 5 of ABC‘s The Bachelor.
01.02.2023 - 23:29 / usmagazine.com
The most dramatic hosts ever? Not if Jesse Palmer has anything to say about it.
Palmer, 44, addressed Chris Harrison’s recent comment that Wells Adams should’ve gotten the gig for the first time during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly.
“[I have] no reaction, really. I mean, he’s obviously entitled to his own opinion as everybody is,” the former NFL quarterback told Us. “I’m just really happy for Chris and wish him the best in his next venture.”
ABC cut ties with Harrison, 51, in 2021 after his apparent defense of then-Bachelor frontrunner Rachael Kirkconnell, who was under fire for resurfaced photos from an Old South-themed party she attended in college. The former host broke his silence on the controversy on his podcast, “The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever,” last month and revealed he was surprised by his replacement.
“Wells has always been a very good man and a good friend of mine. Wells was in a very difficult situation because obviously he was still kind of connected to the show and he was doing stuff on Paradise, but he was one of the first to reach out to me and just say, ‘Look, I’m staying out of this. I love you and respect you.’ … I thought, to be completely candid, that Wells was going to get the job,” Harrison said. “I even told him, I said, ‘Hey, man, I won’t speak out publicly because I don’t think that will help you at all. In fact, it would do a lot more harm than good. But I really hope you get the job. I think you’d be great at it.’”
The network named Palmer — the season 5 Bachelor — the host ahead of Clayton Echard’s season 26. He has since helmed season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise and Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s season 19 of The Bachelorette.
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Season 27, Episode 5 of ABC‘s The Bachelor.
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photographed attending an antebellum plantation-themed party in college. In a chat with former "Bachelorette" Rachel Lindsay on "Extra," Chris argued that times had changed, as had the lens in which we look at things. Rachel countered that the images of Rachael were "not a good look." "Well, Rachel, is it a good look in 2018? Or is it not a good look in 2021? Because there's a big difference," he said, urging fans to have "a little grace, a little understanding, a little compassion" for Rachael.The comments came on the heels of the BLM riots and set Chris' ouster in motion.
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