My biggest takeaway from last night was this. How many people on social media since last weeks episode have taken a jab at Clayton for sleeping with both women? 1 million? 1 billion? 1 gazillion? I mean, it’s a running joke about him having sex in the fantasy suites with multiple women and crucifying him for it. Did you notice last night after Clayton told both Gabby and Rachel he was in love with them and he was intimate with both of them, that even during all of Rachel’s wailing away and Gabby’s frustration with him, NOT ONCE did either of them ever bring up the sex part. Not once. Their whole issue with Clayton is how he could he have told everyone he’s in love with them so freely. So all these self righteous, clutch-the-pearls hypocrites out there not understanding how you can sleep with multiple people knowing a possible engagement is coming days later haven’t been paying attention over the years. Plenty have done it in the past, and plenty will do it in the future. Both Bachelor AND Bachelorette. So lets stop saying that it’s gross, or how could that be done, etc. You’re looking at it from a real world perspective, whereas it’s a TV show, and frankly, that’s what happens on this show. And if Gabby and Rachel weren’t even bothered enough by it to even bring it up to him during their state of distress and confusion, it shouldn’t be such a sticking point with you sitting at home.
With that said moving forward, I would think this season caused enough of a mess to where I think for a Bachelor to guarantee himself the least amount of drama in the end, he should probably not sleep with multiple women. If he does, he just needs to understand the possible consequences, which a lot of them seem to have trouble grasping. But then again, if they only sleep with the one they know they’re gonna pick, that’d kinda give it away internally. So we’re probably not going to see this change over the course of time, and there will always be messiness when sex is involved. I just thought it was real telling that Gabby and Rachel didn’t bring it up once last night after he told them, and they were way more bothered by him throwing out I Love You’s like Oprah gave away cars on her show.
Could we have done without the two alumni segments last night? Of course. They offered nothing. But two of the appearances stuck out to me for completely different reasons. One was Nick, and that’s only because on the ABCBachelor IG story before the show last night, Nick did a quick video telling people to watch and then ended it with, “I don’t know why I’m here.” Really, Nick? REALLY? You don’t know why you’re there? I know you’re trying to be humble and unassuming, but for fucks sake, we all know why you’re there. You literally have a podcast dedicated to talking about every episode of this show that posts 4 seconds after the episode has aired. You get advanced copies to each episode. You’re a mouth piece for production, and you’ve basically built your entire brand around being the “moral compass” of the Bachelor, all while trying to pretend you were never on the show and you’re above it. But sure, go ahead and try to act shocked why you were invited to speak at this “reunion.”
The other one was Cassie. Great to see her and all, but has Cassie ever spoken about the show ever on social media since she left it? Does she live tweet? Does she do anything in her IG stories? Is anything about her brand still attached to this show? Hell, I guess I’d even ask Cassie why she even agreed to do it? The show asking her makes more sense than her agreeing to. Nothing negative against Cassie, I just don’t know why she’d want to be a part of this when she literally has distanced herself from anything regarding this show as far as I’ve seen. Not to mention the whole Colton debacle which she’s never allowed to speak on due to their settlement. Just a weird choice to bring on, and even weirder that she would even want to.
So tonight we’re gonna see Clayton meet with Susie to convince her to stay and meet his family, and the question becomes, “Why would she stay?” I guess the answer was given to us last night. Gabby literally said no to a rose at the rose ceremony, started walking out, and had a change of heart once Clayton talked to her. Of course Susie is gonna stay once Clayton comes to her face-to-face practically begging her to and telling her he’s sorry. Was there probably some urging by production to give him another chance? Of course. We’d be naïve to think there wasn’t. But to say it makes no sense why she’d come back is a bit off when Gabby was able to change her mind in a matter of minutes. Susie’s had time to sit back and think about it. Clayton’s gonna come apologize to her, say he realizes he wasn’t listening to her, and that he wants her to stay. I mean, it puts her in a position where she almost kinda has to stay, no? Very similar to the Cassie situation. When Colton dumped two women for Cassie and told her as much, it just wouldn’t have looked good walking away at that point. Re-read those last three words. “At that point.” Because I know a lot of you are already jumping on that take because we know everything that happened post show. I’m talking about in that moment, not knowing anything that would become of her future, when Colton declared his love for her and told Hannah G and Tayshia to kick rocks because Cassie’s the one he wanted, Cassie was put in a tough position where staying was kind of her only option.
Gonna be a crazy hectic next 24 hours. If I find out any solid confirmation of who the “Bachelorette” is, I will post on social media today. I’d be surprised if I did, but you never know. Right now I only have one guy from her season I’m pretty sure is there since I was told he was getting cast, then this weekend he went private on IG. Any more guys I get for next season on next “Bachelorette” I will post during the day today, since they’re already out there, and nothing I post will prevent them from being cast.
Tonight should be quite interesting. Like I said, would be pretty shocked if Clayton and Susie are a full blown couple. Been told nothing to that effect. We will get all our answers tonight. Talk to you early tomorrow.
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