{"id":23765,"date":"2019-05-16T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1041929"},"modified":"2019-05-16T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:12:11","slug":"hannah-brown-confronts-kelly-ripa-about-all-that-bachelorette-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/hannah-brown-confronts-kelly-ripa-about-all-that-bachelorette-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Brown Confronts Kelly Ripa About All That Bachelorette Shade"},"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\/2019416\/rs_1024x759-190516073749-1024x759-kelly-hannah-gj-5-16-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Hannah Brown and Kelly Ripa\" alt=\"Hannah Brown and Kelly Ripa\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Dominik Bindl\/Getty Images, ABC\/Ed Herrera<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.759237187128\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.028605482718\">\n<p>There was no beating around the rose bush.<\/p>\n<p>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>&nbsp;today,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;questioned Bachelorette <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hannah_brown\">Hannah Brown<\/a><\/strong> about the&nbsp;ABC love hunt, which the host&nbsp;recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041592\/bachelorette-boss-mike-fleiss-and-chris-harrison-shade-kelly-ripa-after-she-calls-the-show-creepy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called &#8220;gross&#8221; and &#8220;creepy.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure if they told you&nbsp;backstage, I&#8217;m not behind this&nbsp;at all,&#8221; Ripa told <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\">the season 15 lead<\/a>. &#8220;You seem like a lovely girl.&nbsp;You blink twice, I will get you&nbsp;out of here.&#8221; Brown, however, was unfazed.&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;m good,&#8221; she said with a laugh. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ripa was too. After all, she finally got her chance to&nbsp;address her concerns with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1025958\/how-hannah-brown-s-bachelorette-journey-will-be-different-from-past-seasons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the former Miss Alabama USA<\/a>.&nbsp;&#8220;I am very against women fighting over a guy,&#8221;&nbsp;explained the&nbsp;<em>All My Children<\/em>&nbsp;alum. &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in it. I think it&#8217;s, you know, weird and sets us back.&nbsp;But now, you are in the power&nbsp;position.&nbsp;So,&nbsp;take me through that.&nbsp;How does that work?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.672215108835\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.47119078105\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Well, as it turns out,&nbsp;the journey is&nbsp;a rather positive one, whether you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1031763\/how-colton-underwood-really-feels-about-hannah-brown-being-the-next-bachelorette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vying for the Bachelor&#8217;s heart<\/a> or have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1039460\/the-bios-for-hannah-brown-s-the-bachelorette-contestants-are-epic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30 suitors chasing<\/a>&nbsp;after yours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like you, I didn&#8217;t really follow the show, wasn&#8217;t a big fan,&#8221; the interior designer&nbsp;admitted. &#8220;But, being a part of the show, it&#8217;s not women fighting against each other. Really, some of my best friends came from the show and were really supportive. When you have a group of 30 people together, there&#8217;s going to be people who don&#8217;t like each other. That&#8217;s simple facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;But, ultimately, it was one of the most empowering things that I ever have done because I had to push myself and grow as an individual,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I did. And I think that&#8217;s why I decided that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041806\/hannah-brown-says-she-s-still-recovering-as-filming-concludes-on-the-bachelorette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I wanted to be the Bachelorette<\/a> and wanted that so bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.497326203209\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.524064171123\">\n<p class=\"p1\">On Tuesday&#8217;s show, Ripa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041760\/breaking-down-bachelor-nation-s-biggest-celebrity-fans-and-haters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slammed the reality dating series<\/a>, which boasts&nbsp;the ardent Bachelor Nation fan base.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s2\">It disgusts me,&#8221; she told co-host <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ryan_seacrest\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;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;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.350253807107\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.116751269036\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her&nbsp;remarks&nbsp;left Bachelor creator&nbsp;<strong>Mike Fleiss<\/strong>&nbsp;and host&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chris_harrison\">Chris Harrison<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;on thorns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Easy, @kellyripa &#8230; #TheBachelor franchise pays your salary!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fleissmeister\/status\/1128494104357130240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fleiss<\/a><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fleissmeister\/status\/1128494104357130240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>tweeted<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/span>referring to their shared network ABC. Chimed in Harrison, &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Look out #BachelorNation,&nbsp;\u2066@KellyRipa\u2069 is coming after you and your &#8216;disgusting&#8217; Monday night habit.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Perhaps this dramatic journey has now reached its end.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041929\/hannah-brown-confronts-kelly-ripa-about-all-that-bachelorette-shade?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>Dominik Bindl\/Getty Images, ABC\/Ed Herrera There was no beating around the rose bush. On Live With Kelly and Ryan&nbsp;today,&nbsp;Kelly Ripa&nbsp;questioned Bachelorette Hannah Brown about the&nbsp;ABC love hunt, which the host&nbsp;recently called &#8220;gross&#8221; and &#8220;creepy.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure if they told you&nbsp;backstage, I&#8217;m not behind this&nbsp;at all,&#8221; Ripa told the season 15 lead. &#8220;You seem like [&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-23765","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 05:00:35","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\/23765","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=23765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}