Following a petition for 'The Bachelor' to be mmore diverse, Tyler Cameron's best friend Matt James has been announced as the next lead.
“We know we have a responsibility to make sure the love stories we’re seeing onscreen are representative of the world we live in, and we are proudly in service to our audience,” ABC said in a statement accompanying the announcement, which was made onFriday. “This is just the beginning, and we will continue to take action with regard to diversity issues on this franchise. We feel so privileged to have Matt as our first Black Bachelor and we cannot wait to embark on this journey with him.
Matt had previously been cast as a contestant on Clare Crawley’s season, but after he and Clare got into a very awkward and public spat on Twitter over his fundraising on Cameo, there were questions about whether he’d still appear. Those questions were further amplified when host Chris Harrison announced that Clare’s cast of men would likely be restructured because of the filming delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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