DeMario Jackson is hoping for the best for Matt James, but he isn’t confident that the season 25 Bachelor is going to get support from fans regardless of who he picks in the end.“I know he’s under so much scrutiny.
He’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t — for both sides,” the 34-year-old Bachelor in Paradise alum exclusively told Us Weekly about the pressure for the 29-year-old lead to end up with a Black woman. “I just hope that whoever he does pick, he’s in love and he runs it and has lots of babies and he’s successful and all the other kind of stuff.
But for the most part, he’s going to get hell either way. He’s gonna get heat from all sides.”James made history in June 2020 when he was named the first Black Bachelor.
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