As you're likely well aware due to it taking 84 years off your life, The Bachelor conducted a Zoom rose ceremony this week due to Zach Shallcross coming down with Covid. And fortunately he was fine! Fine enough to sit in his London hotel room, cozy up with a cup of tea and a Zoom screen, and hand out some virtual roses. Or WAS he in London? dun dun dunnnnn.
Former Bachelorette star Kaitlyn Bristowe made a pretty major allegation during her Off the Vine podcast yesterday, via Us Weekly, saying that footage of Zach being sick in bed was shot in Los Angeles.
“When they show B-roll of Zach, and he really doesn’t look like he’s doing too bad despite the dramatic footage of him blowing his nose," Kaitlyn said. "He’s, like, in his hotel room, in the bed, blowing his nose, he’s got a little fake cup of tea. That’s a hotel in L.A.”
And the proof is allll in the headboard: “It’s the hotel they always put all of their people in when we do, like, Final Rose or the Women Tell All, Men Tell All," Kaitlyn said. "That’s where they stay, in this, like, very specific bed that has writing on the back."
So, like, why would producers do this? According to Kaitlyn, “They must have had to be like, ‘Oh shit, we need some B-roll of Zach looking sick.’ And so, then, he’s back in L.A., and they’re like, ‘Can we just get you blowing your nose and, like, holding a cup of tea in the hotel room?’”
Truly may never recover from this!!!!
Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade.
