So I have a conspiracy, but let me start by saying and giving some background knowledge of the topic at hand.
Everyone at one point or another has either seen, heard of, or watched ABC's The Bachelor/ The Bachelorette.
I myself am a super fan and have watched almost every season along with every episode. I started watching these shows when it was Ali Fedotowsky's season and instantly I became hooked. I watched every season up until Juan Pablo's season and I think I speak for most Bachelor/ Bachelorette fans when I say that he just ruined everything for all of us. After that, I didn't pick back up on the Bachelor or give it another chance until Ben Higgin's season and after that, I just really started noticing a pattern in the ways things panned out.
I think if it's not obvious enough to state that not everything that happens on this show is the real deal, because when is "reality TV' really ever "real?" I have read multiple articles on what things are staged on the show i.e the first impression gags and grand entrances, coerced interviews, and biggest of all... the show's producers telling the Bachelor or Bachelorette which girls and guys to keep around for anticipated drama they might be doing or have already shown they have. Now that last one is what really trips me up and what really get's me thinking. How is it that every season there is one, guaranteed villain among the group. And how is it that these villains always go to a certain extreme point. I mean dear God, if I was on this show with some of these women there is no way I'd be able to keep such composure because in all honesty some of the things that are done and said are beyond a normal human beings believable point. That's why I'd like to introduce my conspiracy that The Bachelor and The Bachelorette shows hire and pay actors to be the season's villain or drama scapegoat.
Every show needs ratings, but especially reality shows where its hard to make things real and interesting at the same time. Viewers live for drama. They want to see girls talking trash about each other, people crying, they want to hear catchphrases in which they will later buy merchandise from (like Corrine from Nick's season for instance... Platinum Vagine... come on that's gold now!). If a show doesn't have this they have nothing and within recent seasons that were starting to lose flare, The Bachelor/ Bachelorette producers started to realize that and needed to amp up the anti. So paid actors it is. Paid actors who guarantee themselves to act ridiculous, push people buttons, talk the most smack and come of basically borderline insane. The reason why I think there are paid actors on the show is like I said before there is no way, in a real life, real people situation, would all these other different people and personalities in the group be able to keep such calm composure to the villain's behavior. Also, all contestant's are required to take a psych exam upon being cast in the show... So how does someone like Chad Johnson on Jojo's season pass when he threatened to rip off the limbs of the other cast mates and feed their severed bodies to bears? Yeaaa... I think if someone made that kind of accusation and much more other threatening ones that the show, for the safety of the other cast members, would remove them from the show and report them to a psych ward... yet nothing happened to him and no one from the crew stepped in Chad's way or thought to tell Jojo that she could possibly be in danger too??? Welp... Guess it's all part of the act.
Also lately... I've been furthering my conspiracy on the paid actors by observing how the majority of them have been being sent home on the infamous 2 on 1 date... and we all recently have seen this with Krystal's elimination last week on Arie's season. Chad also went home on the 2 on 1, Lee Garret from Rachel's season went home on the 2 on 1, Ashley I. from Chris' season, Olivia Caridi from Ben H's season... one of the Twins from Ben's season 9still don't know which one is which)... I think I could keep going on and on. I think, in my Bachelor/ Bachelorette paid actor conspiracy, that the 2 on 1 dates reach a point where the show can no longer interfere with The Bachelor's/ Bachelorette's decisions on who to keep around. The 2 on 1 dates are usually so late in the show anyways where all the far-fetched, overrated drama that was going to happen, happened. I feel, on the show, that is becoming the significant cut off point as to where The Bachelor/ Bachelorette should really get down to what they signed up for and come to do which is to ultimately find someone they see themselves spending the rest of their lives with and well a paid actor/ the villain doesn't seem to make a good fit for that (i.e. Vienna Girardi from Jake's season and Courtney Robertson from Ben F's season). Guess that's why producers made that cut off point and decided to start cueing the Bachelor/ Bachelorette in on things... buuutttt that's for another Bachelor debate.
All and all this show is so fake, but for some reason, I always come back for more every week. I don't know if it's for the genuine-ness of hoping two people will really fall in love at the end of this, or if it's to make my mind melt of all the honest stupidity all these people are enduring and putting out there on national TV, but hey The Bachelor producers whatever you're doing is working I guess. Just keep adding to the drama whether it's real or not because there is no way that encountering with DeMario and his supposed "girlfriend" happened by coincidence because to me that was A LOT of Tela Novela overacting going on there.
Still love the shows, still going to watch, but don't think I'm the only viewer who sees something strange going on here. But hey if I'm 25 and single, expect to see my application to "date" the next Bachelor.
Next week on The Bachelor... dun dun.