Michelle Young’s love story on her season of “The Bachelorette” did not end in happily-ever-after. She become more upset with the franchise’s failure to address the revelation, during the 2022 season of “The Bachelorette,” that contestant Erich Schwer had posed in blackface for his high school yearbook. Whatever Fleiss’ precise impact on the franchise’s problems with race, he leaves as …
LOS ANGELES — Mike Fleiss, the creator of “The Bachelor,” has exited the reality TV franchise more than two decades after the iconic dating show launched. While Fleiss has been the face of the “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” and other spinoffs since the shows’ inceptions, trade publications report he hasn’t led day-to-day operations in around a decade. Fleiss described the …
