Bachelor contestant: I’m pregnant
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest season of ABC’s The Bachelor, you may be thinking that it seems more like an episode of Jerry Springer than quality family programming. The latest publicity stunt involves 25-year-old Tenley from Oregon. In an advertisement for an upcoming episode, Tenley says to Jake, “I’m pregnant.”
It is, in fact, a stunt. The clever editing by ABC’s staff left audiences thinking that her words were true. It was revealed on Monday night that Tenley was only joking with Jake. This is just one of the low-blows the reality show has given this season in order to attract audiences.
In last week’s episode, Rozlyn Papa is accused of an “inappropriate relationship” with one of the producers that gets her eliminated from the show and the producer fired. Again, some cleverly edited promos lead audiences to believe that the “inappropriate relationship” may have involved two women in the house.
An anonymous bachelorette said the network would do anything to create drama. She told Radar Online, “You have to be so careful on that show because someone could step on your foot and they’ll make it look like you broke your toe! ABC will do anything to create drama. Even if they were just cuddling, the producers can easily make it look like something more.”
February 1st, 2010 at 9:07 pm
I have watched each and every season of the Bachelor or the Bacholorette, along with my daughter. We phone back and forth at every commercial and talk. However, for both of us, this will probably be our last season. The show has become so sleezy and going for the cheap tricks and low class theme. Oh, I know most of it might be the editing (i.e., pregnant Tenley)….but I ask why?? Do you honestly feel that is the only way you can keep an audience. How little you must think of us. The show use to have some class. But I guess class doesn’t sell…….funny that! Money obviously can’t buy everything. But lack of class can sure cost you some viewers. My daughter and I are not the only ones who feel this way. Everyone that I know who watches is greatly disappointed in the turn the show is taking.