Bachelors stick together. Clayton Echard came to season 27 lead Zach Shallcross’ defense following criticism of his approach to fantasy suites.
02.03.2023 - 00:35 / usmagazine.com
Fans who tuned into season 26 of The Bachelor didn’t know the half of Clayton Echard’s “journey” — until now.
“I actually love the word journey, so don’t worry about giving me PTSD,” the 180 Degrees: On Mental Health, Mindfulness, and Unlocking Self-Belief author, 29, exclusively joked on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast about the popular Bachelor word. “But journey just is the best word for it. There is no other word. Experience sounds temporary. It sounds more manufactured to me. Journey encapsulates the highs and the lows and everything in between. It’s a process. It’s a long marathon, but it’s not a race.”
Beginning with insecurities in middle school and high school that followed him into his time within Bachelor Nation, Clayton writes about his battles with body dysmorphia and depression in his new book.
“I didn’t even know really what I was experiencing. I just had some extreme fixation on me,” he told Us of his body image struggles. “It’s become really easy for me to speak about. I’ve been vocal well before the show about it. I started having these conversations in college and I talk about it in the book, but I opened up to the wrong people and they used it against me. They weaponized my body image issues. They call me ‘bad body Ech.’ That was my nickname by some of my teammates in college because they knew that I didn’t like my body. … I would laugh it off, but in reality, they knew it bothered me. That’s the thing where I try to tell people — when you open up to the wrong people, it will hurt you. But when you open up to the right people, it’ll help you tremendously.”
Viewers were introduced to Clayton when ABC announced he was a contestant on Michelle Young’s season of The Bachelorette — and the
Bachelors stick together. Clayton Echard came to season 27 lead Zach Shallcross’ defense following criticism of his approach to fantasy suites.
Cici Coleman has shared a string of bikini photos to showcase her fitness transformation after overhauling her lifestyle. The 36 year old, who is best known for starring as a waitress on Channel 4's First Dates, took to Instagram to share the results of her fitness regime, revealing she's swapped exercise classes for weight training sessions. Cici posted a number of photos of herself wearing bikinis at different points in her life, to show how she weighs the same in every single snap but now looks drastically different.
Helen Flanagan is said to be eyeing up signing for the next series of E4's Celebs Go Dating, after splitting from her footballer fiancé, Scott Sinclair. Show bosses are reportedly keen to get the former Coronation Street actress on board for the show, which sees a panel of dating experts lining up a group of celebrities with non-celebrity partners in a quest to find 'The One'.The Sun reports that the team behind the show think Helen, 32, is the "perfect candidate" for the show, after she and Scott, with whom she shares three children, went their separate ways last year after 13 years together.
New York Rangers and Washington Capitals.The “NHL Big City Greens Classic” broadcast uses NHL Edge positioning data (puck and player tracking) to recreate the real on-ice action unfolding at Madison Square Garden.Airing on ESPN+, Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney+, the telecast also features characters from Disney’s comedy series “Big City Greens” skating alongside animated versions of the NHL players. ESPN commentators Kevin Weekes and Drew Carter are calling the virtual game wearing motion-capture suits that allow full-body animations of themselves to appear in the Big City.Facial recognition technology is being used to imitate the reactions of Chris Houghton, the animated series’ co-creator/executive producer, and actor Marieve Herington, who voices Tilly.“I really want my curiosity to be deep, my excitement for it,” Weekes, a former NHL goalie, told NHL.com.“Hopefully that ends up translating into the broadcast itself because we’re being transported, certainly for me, I’ll be transported into a different world.
Cheryl Burke is keeping her options open.The former pro opened up about her love life and how close she actually came to becoming with ET's Cassie DiLaura at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscars viewing party for the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday.On a recent March episode of Chris Harrison's podcast, , Harrison and Burke discussed the moment when she was seriously being considered to be the Bachelorette. «Chris Harrison, I knew this interview was gonna get me in trouble!» Burke exclaimed when ET asked about the revelation. The 38-year-old dancer and TV personality, who divorced actor Matthew Lawrence in 2022, elaborated on those behind-the-scenes conversations, sharing that she had «meetings» and hinted that they were seemingly close to the finish line. «Like, we we were about to do this thing,» Burke said.«I don't know if Chris had the final word,» she further explained.
judges decided to right a wrong while listening to an audition from 20-year-old Yonkers, New York native Amara Valerio.Before belting out her audition, Amara told judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie about an opportunity she had to sing the National Anthem at her school.«When I started to sing, this girl came up and pulled the mic and was like, 'This is my senior graduating class and I think I deserve to sing the National Anthem,'» she shared.Amara even came with the video footage to prove it. After the judges watched the shocking moment, Perry declares, «She just pulled a Kanye West,» referencing the rapper's infamous 2009 MTV VMAs moment when he took the mic from winner Taylor Swift to declare that Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!"«I got Kanye'd,» Amara agreed.
Joe Jonas is opening up about his cosmetic procedures.
Christopher Vourlias When he began working on his latest documentary, “The Last Seagull,” acclaimed Bulgarian filmmaker Tonislav Hristov (“The Good Postman”) set himself a seemingly simple task: to follow the last of the dying breed of male escorts who, since the communist era, have spent their summers seducing foreign women in resort towns along the Black Sea. That plan went astray, however, when real-world events intervened: first the coronavirus pandemic, which grounded flights and shuttered the very resorts where those escorts plied their trade; then the war in Ukraine, which impacted “The Last Seagull” in unexpected ways. “This is what’s nice, but also scary, about documentaries,” Hristov told Variety after the film’s world premiere at the Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival. “You never know what’s going to happen next.”
From Bachelorette to bride! Andi Dorfman and Blaine Hart are ready to exchange vows nearly a decade after she handed out roses.
Clayton Echard is setting the record straight on his relationship with Rachel Recchia. One month after the exes reunited in a flirty TikTok, Clayton revealed what led to the video and how he and Rachel are doing today.«We were there for a couple of days and just feeling the situation out,» Clayton explained on.
READ MORE: Woman, 23, trapped in the body of an eight-year-old girl lays bare new love interestDan then flew to the US, and the couple went on a series of dates, with Shauna claiming they were "similar" and he had "piqued her interest" with his active lifestyle. These dates were chronicled on her TLC reality series, I Am Shauna Rae. However, Dan received some cruel backlash.
Katya Echazarreta has unveiled her Barbie doll, dressed in a navy blue flight suit. The 27-year-old role model recently made history as the first Mexican-born woman to travel to space.“At 7 years old when I used to pretend my Barbie was an Astronaut traveling through the galaxy I could never have imagined I would one day have my very own Barbie,” Katya said.
An incredible bond. Starring in the most prominent boxing movies of the past generation, many moviegoers might be stumped by the question of if Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson are dating IRL because their on-screen chemistry is so believable.
From one “boring Bachelor” to another? Clayton Echard revealed he spoke to Zach Shallcross as season 27 of The Bachelor airs.
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A young escort has bravely shared their experiences of being treated 'less than human' and regularly fearing they are 'going to die'. This includes being punched and strangled while selling sex in a hotel with strangers threatening to rape, kill, or throw acid on her.
Sharing the love. Prince Harry gushed over his wife, Meghan Markle, while recalling the early days of their relationship.
Season 26 of The Bachelor had a happy ending when Clayton Echard and Susie Evans reunited, but it didn’t take long for the couple to realize they needed to work on themselves before they could be in a healthy relationship.
Clayton Echard is still on his healing journey after The Bachelor — and recently hit an important step, patching things up with Rachel Recchia.