Nick Viall

And there were rumors started circulating about some stuff in this person's past.

And I actually got a call.

Have you heard anything about this situation?

I said, I don't, but I know someone who knows someone who I think might be involved.

And I connected the dots.

A phone call was made and that person was never made the lead.

And again, it was like they double clicked on their due diligence to just, just to make sure before we move forward and make this person the lead of our show and all these people who have the, again, like there's hundreds of people whose jobs are on the line.

You know, it's, it's, it's an entire franchise.

Hundreds of people are involved whose lives will forever be different.

And, and there's,

such a responsibility that goes into making these shows and the ripple effects of who it affects, which is to why they historically do this due diligence.

And the fact that like, they just didn't.

Yeah.

The question is like, did they know the video existed?

Did they see the video and ignore it?

Did they just not want to know about the video?

And then, again, back to we know Dakota knew the video existed.

And he's also someone who was a star of the show, who chose to keep quiet.

Why wasn't this video?

We've heard reports that even Dakota tried to warn people.