During The Bachelor Season 27, Women Tell All, Greer Blitzer addressed the controversy surrounding tweets she wrote defending blackface. This is far from the first time a contestant in the franchise has come under fire for past racist actions, though it isn’t always addressed. Here’s what Greer said at the Women Tell All.
[Spoiler alert: The Bachelor Season 27 spoilers ahead regarding the Women Tell All.]
Jesse Palmer and Greer Blitzer | ABC/Craig Sjodin Bachelor Nation unearthed racist tweets of Greer Blitzer defending blackface
Early on in the airing of The Bachelor Season 27, viewers dug up controversial past tweets from Greer Blitzer. Greer defended a student who dressed up as Tupac Shakur, writing that the unnamed person “didn’t even know what blackface was” and that she “did not paint herself black because she felt superior to black people.”
After fans unearthed the tweets, Greer took to social media to apologize. In an Instagram story,...
[Spoiler alert: The Bachelor Season 27 spoilers ahead regarding the Women Tell All.]
Jesse Palmer and Greer Blitzer | ABC/Craig Sjodin Bachelor Nation unearthed racist tweets of Greer Blitzer defending blackface
Early on in the airing of The Bachelor Season 27, viewers dug up controversial past tweets from Greer Blitzer. Greer defended a student who dressed up as Tupac Shakur, writing that the unnamed person “didn’t even know what blackface was” and that she “did not paint herself black because she felt superior to black people.”
After fans unearthed the tweets, Greer took to social media to apologize. In an Instagram story,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Erica Scassellati
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Spoiler Alert! This post contains details from Season 27’s The Bachelor: Women Tell All.
Zach Shallcross has narrowed down his final three contestants on Season 27 of The Bachelor, and now the time has come for the women who were sent home to say their piece in The Bachelor: Women Tell All.
If you need to catch up on what you missed, here’s a recap of hometown dates. Zach met the families of Charity, Gabi, Kaity, and Ariel. He declined to offer Charity a rose, and the pair had a very emotional goodbye.
Charity returned for the tell all, along with Cat, Olivia L., Madison, Victoria J., Anastasia, Genevie, Mercedes, Kylee, Brooklyn, Jess, Kat, Christina, Aly, and Greer. Considering that Shallcross was adamant about squashing most drama among the women as soon as it occurred, Tuesday night’s Women Tell All was fairly tame.
Read on for more details, and...
Zach Shallcross has narrowed down his final three contestants on Season 27 of The Bachelor, and now the time has come for the women who were sent home to say their piece in The Bachelor: Women Tell All.
If you need to catch up on what you missed, here’s a recap of hometown dates. Zach met the families of Charity, Gabi, Kaity, and Ariel. He declined to offer Charity a rose, and the pair had a very emotional goodbye.
Charity returned for the tell all, along with Cat, Olivia L., Madison, Victoria J., Anastasia, Genevie, Mercedes, Kylee, Brooklyn, Jess, Kat, Christina, Aly, and Greer. Considering that Shallcross was adamant about squashing most drama among the women as soon as it occurred, Tuesday night’s Women Tell All was fairly tame.
Read on for more details, and...
- 3/15/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Bachelor” franchise is no stranger to controversy, and after having been embroiled in race-related scandal in recent years, the ABC dating show addressed a contestant controversy head-on in the latest episode.
Greer Blitzer is a contestant on the current season of “The Bachelor,” which stars leading man Zach Shallcross. Before the season premiered, Reddit users unearthed former tweets from 2016 where Blitzer defended wearing blackface. The reality star apologized on her own social media in January for the racially insensitive tweets, but the show had not addressed the controversy until now.
On Tuesday’s episode of “The Bachelor: Women Tell All,” host Jesse Palmer put Blitzer in the hot seat and asked her address the backlash regarding her “troubling” and “disturbing” posts, in front of a studio audience.
“The truth is, as a franchise, we’ve done a very poor job in the past of addressing serious topics head-on, and...
Greer Blitzer is a contestant on the current season of “The Bachelor,” which stars leading man Zach Shallcross. Before the season premiered, Reddit users unearthed former tweets from 2016 where Blitzer defended wearing blackface. The reality star apologized on her own social media in January for the racially insensitive tweets, but the show had not addressed the controversy until now.
On Tuesday’s episode of “The Bachelor: Women Tell All,” host Jesse Palmer put Blitzer in the hot seat and asked her address the backlash regarding her “troubling” and “disturbing” posts, in front of a studio audience.
“The truth is, as a franchise, we’ve done a very poor job in the past of addressing serious topics head-on, and...
- 3/15/2023
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
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