Zach Shallcross and Kaitlyn Bristowe Respond to Nick Viall’s ‘Harsh’ Critiques of ‘Bachelor’ Season 27

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Not all Bachelor bonds are created equally. While sitting down with former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe, Zach Shallcross and Kaity Biggar reacted to Nick Viall’s commentary on season 27 of the ABC show.The season 21 Bachelor’s name came up when Zach, 26, thanked Kaitlyn, 37, for reaching out after she initially critiqued the franchise for picking the sales exec as the lead.“I appreciate that.

Thank you for reaching out about that because it means a lot, you know, when you’re someone very prominent [in the franchise],” Zach said on the Thursday, March 30, episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast. “There’s so many negative comments.”Kaitlyn then interjected: “Oh, my God, Nick was so hard on you.”“Do I even want to go into that?” Zach responded. “Because he had reached out to me, like, the day before saying, ‘Hey man, I got your back, like, I’ll support you.’ And then he drops his phone number.

And I just, like, saw it and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s great.’ The next day, I just see in Yahoo News or whatever, ‘[Nick] Slams Zach Shallcross. … He’s so this and that.’ I was like, ‘Was that just a pity reach out?’ Because it kind of hurt.

I’ve never met him. And I was like, ‘It’s kind of an a—hole move.’ Maybe he didn’t mean to — maybe something he said got taken out of context — I don’t listen to his stuff.