{"id":1242,"date":"2016-01-10T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/10\/we-could-finally-be-getting-a-diverse-bachelorette\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T04:18:44","slug":"we-could-finally-be-getting-a-diverse-bachelorette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/10\/we-could-finally-be-getting-a-diverse-bachelorette\/","title":{"rendered":"We could finally be getting a diverse 'Bachelorette'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PASADENA, CALIF. \u2014It’s been 20 seasons of ABC’s The Bachelor<\/em> and 11 seasons of The Bachelorette<\/em>, but not one leading man or lady has yet to be African-American.<\/p>\n

This summer, that may change.<\/p>\n

Paul Lee, ABC Entertainment Group President, said at the Television Critics Association Saturday that the network is “doing a whole lot of tweaks” to the franchise.<\/p>\n

“I’d be very surprised if the [Bachelorette] in the summer isn’t diverse,” Lee told reporters following the network’s executive session.<\/p>\n

Normally, the picking process for The Bachelor, The Bachelorette<\/em> and Bachelor in Paradise<\/em> originates with what Lee called “The Farm Team” a.k.a the pool of contestants that producers have used since the show’s inception in 2009. For example, season 20 Bachelor<\/em> Ben Higgins was a finalist on last season’s The Bachelorette<\/em> with Kaitlyn Bristowe. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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PASADENA, CALIF. \u2014It’s been 20 seasons of ABC’s The Bachelor and 11 seasons of The Bachelorette, but not one leading man or lady has yet to be African-American. This summer, that may change. Paul Lee, ABC Entertainment Group President, said … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[876,877,739,878,810],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-abc","tag-diversity","tag-entertainment","tag-the-bachelor","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}