‘The Bachelor’ Rocked by Another Race Scandal

ABC’s The Bachelor contestant Greer Blitzer found herself under fire and forced to apologize for defending her friend’s blackface costume in resurfaced social media posts.

Blitzer, who received the first impression rose during Monday night’s episode, immediately found herself the target of online sleuths who dug up her tweets from 2016 {snip}

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Blitzer, who appears to have since deleted her Twitter account entirely, responded to the backlash, stating that she “used misguided arguments on Twitter to defend a student who dressed in Blackface as Tupac for Halloween,” TMZ reported.

The Bachelor contestant added that she wants to apologize “to those I have hurt, especially those within the Black community.”

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In 2021, The Bachelor‘s Rachael Kirkconnell fell under fire after it was discovered that in 2018, she had attended an “Old South”-themed party {snip}

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