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Why Chris Harrison’s Exit From “The Bachelor” Won’t Make It Better
After stepping away from the lucrative franchise he helped build from the ground up, and sustained for almost 20 years, following the scandalized TV appearance that only became more relentless over time, it has been announced that ABC’s most recognizable face won’t be returning to Bachelor Nation.
Chris Harrison won’t be back to assume the reigns of the upcoming new season of the dating and relationship blockbuster that undoubtedly helped to pioneer the seductive formula of reality TV, that eventually blossomed into the phenom that still hasn’t run out of steam.
The reason for the somewhat unexpected outcome is anybody’s guess, but rumblings of heightened frustration and claims of victimhood on the part of Harrison and his high-powered legal team, who accuse ABC Entertainment of throwing a valuable player under the bus, clearly proves that the ousted Bachelor host issued his badly delivered “surfacy” apology to save his ass.
Harrison was compelled to stage a very brief and disingenuous apology tour after his unfortunate…