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11.06.2022 - 01:07 / justjared.com
Matt James is opening up about his season of The Bachelor and how he feels the show failed his story.
The 30-year-old reality star is promoting his new memoir “First Impressions” and he has explained why he doesn’t focus on the scandals surrounding his season.
“There will be another Bachelor, and there will probably be another Black Bachelor, and there will be another tell-all book,” Matt told the Los Angeles Times. “I wasn’t interested in that. If that’s what interests fans, and that outweighs the personal things I want to share, then my book isn’t for them.”
Matt made history as the first Black bachelor in the show’s history and his season ended in scandal when his winner Rachael Kirkconnell received backlash for resurfaced photos from an antebellum-themed party. They temporarily split after the season, but have since got back together and are still going strong.
Click inside to read what Matt James said about how the show failed him…
While talking about how the she failed him, Matt blamed the show’s editing.
“There was nothing to lay the framework — my background, who I was or why I’m here,” he said. “It wasn’t the right audience. My message was not the one that The Bachelor was trying to promote across their franchise, which is fine. That’s on me, being naive. Rachael and I were the ones accountable and having the conversations. The franchise is a collection of people. I’m one person. Rachael is one person. How do you hold an organization of people responsible? You don’t.”
Matt also explained why he’s not involved in the franchise any longer.
“My relationship had been made into a sideshow, a complete circus… Rachael and I have moved on. We’re one of the only couples from that franchise still going strong,” he
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Matt James, who made history last year as the first Black (male) lead on one of TV’s biggest shows, The Bachelor, has had over a year to reflect on the experience and now says he sees the full scope of the opportunity lost. Given the landmark nature of his role, James says he expected the show’s producers would use the conversations around race and other matters he was having with the contestants and then-host Chris Harrison to illuminate the issues the country was facing in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. But when he saw the show after it was edited, those discussions and even the reality of his own accomplishments were subsumed by the show’s fluffier fare.
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