Ms. Fuller will still appear inside hard copies of the magazine, which have already been printed, Ms. Pels wrote. She also appears in two photos on Cosmopolitan’s website, accompanying the magazine’s interview with Mr. Weber.
“The Bachelor” has had issues with its contestants’ pasts before. Last year, with Hannah Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette,” the show began releasing the list of contestants in advance of the premiere, in what seemed to be an attempt to crowdsource contestant background checks. Thirty-three names and photos were released for Mr. Weber’s season, but only 30 women remained by the premiere.
“I think, for lack of having a better process, two seasons into trying it this way, it’s as good as we have,” Chris Harrison, the show’s longtime host, said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in January. “We’re trying to evolve as well, and giving everybody a chance to see who’s on the show and hear anything that’s out there; we do our best to do our due diligence.”
Ms. Pels, who went to Costa Rica for the photo shoot, wrote in the letter that she did not know much about the contestants while filming the episode — details about the season, she wrote, were as “closely guarded as nuclear codes.”
“When my team and I flew down to Costa Rica for our challenge, we weren’t told who our models were going to be,” she wrote. “We didn’t even meet them until we were all on camera on set, ready to start our shoot.”
All she knew about the contestants, Ms. Pels added, “were their first names and the energy they conveyed through the camera lens.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/arts/television/the-bachelor-victoria-fuller-cosmopolitan.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
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