Will we ever see a bachelor or a bachelorette who is not white? "I think Ashley is 1/16thCherokee Indian, but I cannot confirm. But that is my suspicion! We really tried, but sometimes we feel guilty of tokenism. Oh, we have to wedge African-American chicks in there! We always want to cast for ethnic diversity, it’s just that for whatever reason, they don’t come forward. I wish they would."
You just finished your 15th edition of The Bachelor. What’s it feel like to survive for so long? "There have been so many Bachelor rip-offs. We tell better stories, we cast more relatable people, and we’ve survived when others fell by the wayside. I’m so proud of that. I’m glad we have this big territory. The romance space is ours. We did 20 million viewers on Monday and have another cover of People magazine, despite the fact there is some really important stuff going on [in the world]. There’s a degree of absurdity to that. But I think our ratings are way higher. People watch this show in groups. We know virtually every college campus has a Bachelor screening party. We average good, solid ratings but the number of magazine covers we get sort of tells us a different story. You’d be hard pressed to find people in the country who didn’t know what happened on Monday. For a show to be on 10 years, it’s a miracle!"
Shit man. This guy is the Nicholas Sparks of reality TV: he fancies himself a legend, a pioneer, when in reality (haha) he's just pumping out two hours of manipulative fluff every week. The Bachelor franchise is a miracle? These are real miracles, Mike: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/japan-earthquake-2011-sur_n_836196.html#s253897. Get your head on straight.
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