Chris Harrison Insists ‘The Bachelor’ Is Working on Diversity Issue, Not Worried About Hitting a ‘Quota’
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usmagazine.comBreaking the cycle? Chris Harrison opened up about fixing the diversity problem across The Bachelor franchise after Bevy Smith called out the ABC dating series for not representing people of color.“When you watch you don’t see yourself represented and I think that’s what the issue was early on,” the 48-year-old host recently told Smith, 53, on her SiriusXM Radio Andy show, Bevelations. “We were begging people to come audition for the show and we weren’t getting the numbers.
We had to stop and think why: is it the chicken or the egg?”He continued: “We had to take that first step and [do] better at casting and putting more diverse people on the show therefore you see yourself represented more.
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