Nick Viall Responds to Kaitlyn Bristowe Alleging ‘Bachelorette’ Producers ‘Sexualized’ Him

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Is Bachelor Nation living in 2015 or is it just Us? Nick Viall is responding after Kaitlyn Bristowe suggested Bachelorette producers manipulated her feelings about him when he joined season 11.The 37-year-old former lead raised eyebrows late last month when she opened up about Viall, 42, on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast.“They really sexualized Nick to me. … One producer actually said to me, after I would kiss him, she’d come in and, like, wipe my lips and, like, lick her lips and be like, ‘Oh, I just want to know what that tastes like — to, like, make out with Nick,’” Bristowe, who made waves at the time when she slept with Viall before the fantasy suites, claimed. “They really, like, put them on a pedestal to me. … That was part of their tactic. … I was brainwashed.”The season 21 Bachelor, who joined Bristowe’s cast mid-season after connecting with her pre-production, was informed about her remarks by his “Viall Files” podcast cohosts on Tuesday, February 7.“Was she suggesting because someone asked her, I guess, what my breath smells like or how I tasted, that from that moment forward, she was incapable of decision making?” Viall asked.The Don’t Text Your Ex Happy Birthday author added that he believes Bristowe may be telling the truth but doesn’t think what she described was “brainwashing.”“I can picture who it was.

I know [which producer] it was, if it’s true,” he said, adding that he doesn’t think it was as sexual of a reaction as Bristowe implied.During the same interview, Bristowe noted that she didn’t congratulate Viall on his recent engagement to Natalie Joy because of his previous advice not to reach out to exes.