I'm just going to lean into myself and how my mom raised me, and hopefully when people invite me into their homes on Monday night. After sitting through date after date, and watching the drama unfold in front of our very eyes, The Bachelor is set to air its final episode tonight. this is hopefully the first of many Black men to be in the position I'm at now. We Found Out Exactly Where The Bachelor Finale Was Filmed 2 September, 2021 by Basmah Qazi Tourism NT It’s finally here. "She has a very important voice in all this, being the first Black woman, person of color to be a lead, and. "When Rachel speaks, we listen," James previously expressed. "If the National Football League, an organization notoriously known for not standing behind their athletes of color, can come out to make a statement to condemn racism and their systemic oppression and admit they were wrong for not listening in the past, then the Bachelor franchise can most certainly follow suit," she previously said. Prior to James, Lindsay had been vocal about the show's apparent lack of diversity and asked her fellow Bachelor Nation members to speak up about the issues within the franchise. In The Bachelor franchise's 18 years on television (which spans 40 seasons), the showrunners only selected one Black lead of the show: Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay, who gave her now-husband Bryan Abasolo the first impression rose. Getty Images How Bachelor Nation Reacted to Matt James as the Bachelor Together, the dynamic duo runs ABC Food Tours, which offers children from various communities the chance to explore the city with mental and physical wellness as a priority.
James is best friends with another beloved member of Bachelor Nation, Tyler Cameron. "When filming couldn't move forward as planned, we were given the benefit of time to get to know Matt and all agreed he would make a perfect Bachelor."
"Matt has been on our radar since February, when producers first approached him to join Bachelor Nation, as part of Clare's season," Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment said in June. In summer 2020, a petition demanding the network and the show's executive producer Mike Fleiss cast more diverse contestants was created in tandem with the Black Lives Matter movement. ABC's decision to announce James as the new lead comes after the show received mass criticism for its lack of diversity-most glaringly noticeable among its leads. James attended Wake Forest University, where he was a football player and an economics major.
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