Watching “The Bachelorette” or “The Bachelor” has never appealed to me. However, early this year, I saw Arie Luyendyk Jr. dump Becka Kufrin on “The Bachelor” after they got engaged. He threw her over for the blonde runner-up. I happened on the program when I was changing channels.
Becka, a 28-year-old publicist from Prior Lake, Minnesota, was then chosen to be the star of the next season of “The Bachelorette,” which I watched.
As I said in an article at the time, these two programs are terrible ways to choose someone to marry. Becka had 28 guys to choose from. Over the weeks, she dated many of them at the same time and even went to the Fantasy Suite with some of them.
What was disappointing about Becka’s decision is that she choose Garrett Yrigoyen, a medical sales representative, who was exposed as an Instagram troll.
Right after “The Bachelorette” premiered in May, a former “Bachelor” contestant revealed that Garrett had “liked” posts on Instagram that made fun of transgender people; mocked feminists; claimed Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor David Hogg was a crisis actor; and joked about throwing an immigrant child over the border, according to a Washington Post article.
Becka and Garrett said in the finale that they discussed the accusations and worked through them. Garrett publicly apologized earlier and again on the finale. It was interesting in the finale when the couple discussed what Garrett did, he said he didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Becka, however, said he didn’t mean it.
I hope Becka and Garrett will be happy. I just have questions about Garrett. He said twice on the finale that he “loved Becka to death.” It seemed like a strange thing to say even once.
