Bachelor in Paradise returned with a bang, but Chris Harrison doesn’t think the media did a bang-up job of reporting on the show’s two-part season premiere. Harrison had harsh words for TV and entertainment outlets after the ABC reality show was criticized for how it handled the sex scandal that shut down production of the show for nearly two weeks earlier this summer.
TV critics took issue with how Bachelor in Paradise handled a controversial encounter between castmates Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson that temporarily shut down production of the show in Mexico as Warner Bros. investigated claims of sexual misconduct on the set. The actual footage of the encounter between Olympios and Jackson was not shown on Bachelor in Paradise, despite the fact that the internal investigation concluded that there was no wrongdoing