Controversial Contestant Stirs Trouble on 'The Bachelorette'
by EG
Monday night brought out the worst in more than one contestant on The Bachelorette.
After stumbling upon a heated conversation with two of his housemates, Eric Bigger and Iggy Rodriguez, contestant Lee Garrett warned Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay about Bigger.
The episode ended on a "To be continued" note and scenes for next week show escalating tension when one of the black contestants, Will Gaskins, is seen explaining to Garrett, who is white, why it's offensive to call a black man "aggressive."
The racially charged episode comes on the heels of recent revelations about Garrett, a self-described country boy from Nashville. In posts that have since been deleted from his social media accounts, viewers online uncovered tweets Garrett had allegedly sent in 2015 and 2016 that were racist, sexist and offensive to the LGBT community.
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Rachel Lindsay is the first black star of a series in The Bachelor franchise.