‘The Bachelorette’ was interrupted by Trump’s SCOTUS pick. No, viewers were not fine.

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Donald Trump has named Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy in the U.S. Supreme Court — but will he accept this rose?

The Bachelorette fans have complained that Trump’s SCOTUS nomination of Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge who worked in the Bush White House, interrupted Monday night’s show.

Host Chris Harrison tweeted a heads up in the lead-up to the episode, but it didn’t seem to smooth things over with angry viewers.

Here’s my PSA for #BachelorNation @abcnews will be cutting in at 9/8 ET/CT tonight for SCOTUS announcement#TheBachelorette will be “paused” and seen in its entirety. Now go have a great day and I’ll see you tonight!

— Chris Harrison (@chrisbharrison) July 9, 2018 Read more…

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Why watching ‘The Bachelor’ via Twitter is better than the real thing

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Confession: I’ve never seen a single episode of The Bachelor.

I’ve come to this life decision for a few reasons:

  1. I’m generally bad at keeping up with TV, which is time consuming. I prefer to spend the minutes I have doing things like catching horses in The Legend of Zelda and giving them dumb names. (To each their own, ya know.)

  2. I think the greatest reality TV show of all time is VH1’s Charm School (a televised manners school for the contestants of VH1’s own slate of dating shows, featuring commandments like “thou shall show some class,” and — I kid you not — Mo’Nique, Sharon Osborne, and Ricky Lake as its headmistresses). Read more…

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