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‘The Bachelor’ Season Finale Proves Clayton Has No Idea What Love Actually Is

I’ve been an avid fan of “The Bachelor” franchise for nine years. It’s my guilty pleasure show, and I always look forward to unwinding on Monday nights with a glass of wine and petty drama. “The Bachelor” claims that every season is “the most dramatic season ever,” but they actually followed through during Clayton Echard’s season finale.

By Meghan Dillon5 min read
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Fans knew that the 26th season of The Bachelor, starring 28-year-old medical sales rep and former Mizzou Tigers tight-end Clayton Echard, was going to be a unique season from the start. In the preview, fans saw at the “Men Tell All” reunion during Michelle Young’s season of The Bachelorette that Clayton admitted to telling three women he loved them and being intimate with two of them.