Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentSPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead, if you are not up-to-date with Clayton Echard’s season of “The Bachelor.”With only a few days left until the season finale, “The Bachelor” has a lot of explaining to do.Last week’s “fantasy suite” episode — when the couples get to spend an overnight date together for the first time with no cameras around — ended with a bang.With the final three women left vying for Clayton Echard’s heart, ABC’s leading man told each of the women that he was in love with them.
Susie Evans, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia all expressed their love to Echard, who admitted he’d had sex with both Windey and Recchia.
But when Evans gave him an unexpected ultimatum that she couldn’t stay if he had slept with another woman, Echard was caught completely off guard — Evans went home, and Twitter was up in arms.
Echard has been accused of gaslighting Evans (something he denied in a podcast earlier this week), and “Bachelor” fans on Twitter have taken issue with Echard declaring his love — and being intimate with — more than one woman.On the other hand, some social media users have questioned why Evans didn’t tell Echard sooner that it would be a deal-breaker if he slept with one of the other contestants. (After all, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” are shows about one person dating 25 other people at the same time.)“There have multiple Bachelors and Bachelorettes who have slept with three people on their seasons,” host Jesse Palmer says, in conversation with Variety. “It’s part of it.”“I really do think it’s complex,” Palmer adds. “I’ve been watching social media and there are a lot of opinions.
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