Ben Soffer

Yeah, they were gonna choose this crazy, toxic person, hopefully redeem her, give her a beautiful fairytale ending, which I think could have been possible.

But after the season of Mormon Lives that we just watched, she literally slept with him before leaving for The Bachelorette.

You don't go on The Bachelorette to heal and get over someone.

You go when you are healed and over someone and ready for the next thing.

So even if this video hadn't come out this week, it was gonna be really hard to swallow this season of The Bachelorette, knowing that she's literally on the phone with Dakota as she gets out of the limo to start the season.

That's not what The Bachelorette is really about.

There is still sort of this mystique that it's a person.

looking for a real long-lasting relationship with someone who was ready for that.

So before the video, the season was kind of doomed, but they were going to get the ratings that they wanted and the ad dollars and all of that.

So I'm sure that's really all that mattered to them.

But now they have none of that.

There are millions in the hole, the tens of millions that they spent on the season.

Cast members from her show are talking about suing ABC, these desperate guys who thought they were about to have their big shot.

No, they're suing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I think that those are two goals.

And then another goal is to have find a relationship that's lasting because I think the more time that goes on, the more failed bachelor relationships that come out of it, the more it chips away at like the concept for the show.

But like anytime there is a successful relationship, I think that gives them like years more of like, like this really works.

And I think there's been a couple recent, like Joey is still with his winner.