The Bachelor: Why The Villains Always Stick Around
Viewers watch The Bachelor for its drama, even as they wonder why the villains always stick around. The Bachelor is famous for its share of combative contestants. Who can forget Courtney Robertson on Ben Flajnik’s season or Victoria Larson on Matt James’ season? It's also worth remembering Tierra LiCausi, who some viewers believe faked hypothermia so Sean Lowe would give her extra attention – and it worked. After doting on her during her “medical emergency,” he later claimed he’d been "duped.”
In season 26, bachelor Clayton Echard juggled no less than two villains: Shanae Ankney and Cassidy Timbrooks. Shanae managed to convince Clayton that she was the victim, even saying that contestant Elizabeth Corrigan was a red flag he should watch out for, when in fact Shanae was the villain all along, even mocking Elizabeth’s ADHD. Clayton seemed genuinely shocked to learn that Shanae was playing him, as he expressed in his tweet: “Oh boy…what I was being told then and what I’m seeing now is like watching two different movies.”
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So, why does the bachelor often reward villains with a rose, even when the rest of the contestants want them gone? Is he just oblivious to the villains' evil in the house, or are the producers encouraging him to keep them around for added drama? It might be a little bit of both. The one thing all The Bachelor villains seem to have in common is that they are good at showing two sides of themselves. They are sweet and seductive to the bachelor while wreaking havoc with the rest of the contestants.
Bachelor naiveté aside, ABC tends to cast unsuspecting, trusting bachelors and pair them with feisty contestants, guaranteeing that at least one will
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