{"id":2301,"date":"2016-03-15T13:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/15\/chris-harrison-announces-new-bachelorette-after-bachelor-finale\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T05:48:58","slug":"chris-harrison-announces-new-bachelorette-after-bachelor-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/15\/chris-harrison-announces-new-bachelorette-after-bachelor-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Harrison announces new 'Bachelorette' after 'Bachelor' finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Bach Nation is finally getting its first diverse Bachelorette. Well, kind of.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 47 thoughts we had while watching Ben, JoJo and Lauren on ‘The Bachelor’ finale<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Host Chris Harrison announced Monday that the next leading lady\u00a0<\/i>will be JoJo (Joelle) Fletcher, the 24-year-old Texas native and runner-up to Bachelor Ben Higgins’ heart.<\/p>\n

Back at ABC’s Television Critics Association day in January, former ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee<\/a> told reporters the next Bachelor or Bachelorette may finally <\/a>not be Caucasian.<\/p>\n

JoJo, who is a real estate developer, is half Iranian<\/p>\n

“My mom is Persian, and my Dad was born and raised in Tennessee,” she wrote in her bio for\u00a0The Bachelor <\/i>season 28<\/a>.\u00a0“I\u2019m proud of my mother\u2019s background despite what social opinions are. It\u2019s important for me to stand up to people stereotyping Iranians.” Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Bach Nation is finally getting its first diverse Bachelorette. Well, kind of. SEE ALSO: 47 thoughts we had while watching Ben, JoJo and Lauren on ‘The Bachelor’ finale Host Chris Harrison announced Monday that the next leading … 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":[876,739,878,1586],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-the-bachelor","tag-the-bachelorette"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","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=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}