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‘The Bachelor’ and Longtime Creator Mike Fleiss Break Up After Rocky Season

A brand new period of The Bachelor is upon us. After greater than twenty years on the helm of ABC’s actuality relationship present juggernaut, creator Mike Fleiss and his franchise are breaking apart. The information arrives a day after the conclusion of Zach Shallcross’s season of The Bachelor, which had an uneven, albeit glad ending. 

“Before everything, congratulations are to ensure that Zach and Kaity [Biggar]. I want them an extended and glad life collectively. I need to thank WBTV and ABC for 21 extraordinary years. They’ve discovered the right artistic crew for me to entrust The Bachelor franchise and maintain this lightening in a bottle daring and transferring ahead. Let the journey proceed,” Fleiss mentioned in a press release to Deadline. (Vainness Honest has reached out to reps for ABC and Fleiss for added remark.)

Fleiss is passing the baton to Claire Freeland, showrunner of Canada’s The Bachelor; Jason Ehrlich, showrunner on a number of seasons of the sequence and its spinoffs; and Bennett Graebner, a veteran govt producer on the sequence. The subsequent season of The Bachelorette, starring Charity Lawson, is at the moment filming and premieres in June. 

Earlier than creating The Bachelor, which debuted in 2002, and The Bachelorette, which adopted a 12 months later, Fleiss was a artistic thoughts on actuality sequence together with Who Needs To Marry A Multi-Millionaire and Excessive Faculty Reunion. “I wish to take a subject that somebody says, ‘You may’t put that on TV,’ after which I put it on TV,” he advised Vainness Honest in 2003. “I need to really feel somewhat bit harmful, a tiny bit irresponsible in all probability, and that normally equals controversy, and that’s kind of my stock-in-trade.” 

If controversy is what Fleiss sought, then his popularity with The Bachelor franchise was profitable. The colourful creator, a second cousin of famend former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, has weathered his justifiable share {of professional} and private scandal. Over time, he feuded with the Kardashians, his personal expertise, and even fellow ABC stalwart Kelly Ripa. After the Stay host criticized his sequence, Fleiss replied with a scorching tweet: “The Bachelor franchise pays your wage.” 

When requested in regards to the present’s obtrusive lack of range again in 2011, he advised Leisure Weekly, “We all the time need to forged for ethnic range, it’s simply that for no matter purpose, they don’t come ahead. I want they’d.” Throughout the identical interview, Fleiss mentioned of The Bachelor that “the romance area is ours”—a press release that holds far much less weight in 2023 as evidenced by the present’s waning rankings and demanding reception. If something, Fleiss’s legacy could be the scores of hit actuality relationship sequence that now compete towards The Bachelor, together with Love Is BlindMarried at First Sight, Temptation Island, and Love Island, to call only a few.

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