{"id":23703,"date":"2019-05-15T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1041592"},"modified":"2019-05-15T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:54:00","slug":"bachelorette-boss-mike-fleiss-and-chris-harrison-shade-kelly-ripa-after-she-calls-the-show-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/bachelorette-boss-mike-fleiss-and-chris-harrison-shade-kelly-ripa-after-she-calls-the-show-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelorette Boss Mike Fleiss and Chris Harrison Shade Kelly Ripa After She Calls The Show &#8221;Creepy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019415\/rs_1024x759-190515064322-1024-Mike-Fleiss-Kelly-Ripa-LT-051519-GettyImages-486323099-GettyImages-1042212384.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mike Fleiss, Kelly Ripa\" alt=\"Mike Fleiss, Kelly Ripa\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">J Carter Rinaldi\/FilmMagic, Dominik Bindl\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.952048823017\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.384481255449\">\n<p>Hell hath no fury like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/peoples_choice_awards\/news\/1034971\/bachelor-nation-couple-tournament-which-current-pair-from-the-bachelor-its-spinoffs-deserves-the-winning-rose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bachelor Nation<\/a> scorned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;called the&nbsp;dating series&nbsp;&#8220;gross&#8221; and &#8220;creepy&#8221; on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/live_with_kelly_and_ryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live With Kelly and Ryan<\/a><\/em>, the love hunt&#8217;s outspoken creator&nbsp;<strong>Mike Fleiss<\/strong> took aim.&nbsp;&#8220;Easy, @kellyripa &#8230; #TheBachelor franchise pays your salary!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fleissmeister\/status\/1128494104357130240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he tweeted last night<\/a>, referring to their shared network ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks even&nbsp;put a thorn in&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chris_harrison\">Chris Harrison<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s side.&nbsp;&#8220;Look out #BachelorNation,&#8221; he&nbsp;posted on Twitter. &#8220;\u2066@KellyRipa\u2069 is coming after you and your &#8216;disgusting&#8217; Monday night habit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;dramatic feud&nbsp;began yesterday when her co-host&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ryan_seacrest\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;announced that the new Bachelorette would be&nbsp;stopping by&nbsp;their talk show&nbsp;later this week. Ripa, for her part, assumed that meant&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/colton_underwood\">Colton Underwood<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s girlfriend&nbsp;<strong>Cassie Randolph<\/strong>\u2014and not&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hannah_brown\">Hannah Brown<\/a><\/strong>, the actual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041225\/the-bachelorette-s-new-trailer-hannah-brown-says-i-have-had-sex-and-jesus-still-loves-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">star of&nbsp;season 15<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s an entirely different person?&#8221; she quipped. &#8220;You know how I feel about this show. It disgusts me. I&nbsp;thought that I was disgusted because I couldn&#8217;t stand the idea of 25 exceptional women fighting over one, ordinary fella, in my opinion. You know how I feel ladies! We are too special to be arguing over a guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.117363344051\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"26.424437299035\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Her charge&nbsp;caused a cheer from the audience. But, &#8220;having said that,&#8221; she continued with a laugh, &#8220;all you women watch that gross, gross show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As it turns out, the <em>Days of Our Lives<\/em> alum, wed to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mark_consuelos\">Mark Consuelos<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;once rooted for female-led spin-off.&nbsp;After&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em> first premiered, &#8220;I was like, &#8216;How come they don&#8217;t have a woman with men fighting over her? How come they don&#8217;t do that show?'&#8221; she&nbsp;recalled to Seacrest. But, ultimately,&nbsp;<em>The Bachelorette<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1028527\/your-favorite-bachelorette-stars-reunite-look-back-at-their-journeys-to-find-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which debuted in 2003<\/a>, didn&#8217;t earn her rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I found that show just as creepy but in a completely different way,&#8221; she added.&nbsp;&#8220;I was like, \u2018Ew, eww, ewww.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p><em>The Bachelorette<\/em> airs on Monday at 8 p.m. EST.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041592\/bachelorette-boss-mike-fleiss-and-chris-harrison-shade-kelly-ripa-after-she-calls-the-show-creepy?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Carter Rinaldi\/FilmMagic, Dominik Bindl\/Getty Images Hell hath no fury like Bachelor Nation scorned.&nbsp; After Kelly Ripa&nbsp;called the&nbsp;dating series&nbsp;&#8220;gross&#8221; and &#8220;creepy&#8221; on Live With Kelly and Ryan, the love hunt&#8217;s outspoken creator&nbsp;Mike Fleiss took aim.&nbsp;&#8220;Easy, @kellyripa &#8230; #TheBachelor franchise pays your salary!&#8221; he tweeted last night, referring to their shared network ABC. Her remarks even&nbsp;put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:20:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}