Former ‘Bachelor’ host Chris Harrison blasted as ‘a piece of s – – t’ by Rachel Bloom, Matt Rogers

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The Bachelor” franchise was called “a jerk” and “a piece of s – – t” by comedians Matt Rogers and Rachel Bloom on Rogers’ “Las Culturistas” podcast that he hosts with Bowen Yang.On Wednesday’s episode, Rogers, 34, explained that he met Harrison, 53, when he appeared on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in 2017.

Rogers, who won $5,000 on the game show, said the host “did not like” him.“I got on a second episode. I had to come back out and I guess I messed up my entrance, and he didn’t like that because it was the end of the day and so he wanted to go home,” Rogers claimed.“He did give a very ‘I’m over this, very tired’ energy.

He was doing the job but like, ‘I’m half awake and I’m Chris Harrison,'” the “Fire Island” star added. Rogers also said that Harrison “pulled” his hand, rather than shook it, during his entrance on the show.“You can actually see in the video me, like, come off my feet a little bit because he was trying to do, like, a male dominance [thing] … Like, ‘Don’t mess around,'” Rogers explained.“He was a jerk.

Total jerk,” the comedian added about Harrison.Rogers also revealed that Harrison made no effort to talk to him during the commercial break.“He literally did that thing of like, ‘And now is the part we pretend to talk,'” Rogers said. “You know what, everyone’s allowed to have a whatever day, but that was my experience with him.”Bloom, 37, pointed out that celebrities shouldn’t “be mean” because their behavior can be exposed on podcasts.“I had that experience, whatever, and then, like, a few years later, he said all that whack s – – t when ‘The Bachelor’ was having a lot of conversations about race,” Rogers noted of Harrison. “No one needed to expose him for being whatever way because he kind of unveiled.