{"id":25335,"date":"2023-03-30T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/?p=25335"},"modified":"2024-10-31T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:26:24","slug":"the-bachelor-loses-its-cold-black-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/news\/entertainment\/the-bachelor-loses-its-cold-black-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Bachelor\u2019 Loses Its Cold, Black Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mike-fleiss-the-dark-genius-behind-the-bachelor-franchise-has-always-been-a-consensus-first-round-pick-for-reality-tv-s-all-asshole-team-even-with-his-exit-following-accusations-of-racial-discrimination-and-bullying-fleiss-has-fueled-controversy-about-the-team-taking-his-place\">Mike Fleiss, the dark genius behind the Bachelor franchise, has always been a consensus first-round pick for Reality TV\u2019s All-Asshole team. Even with his exit, following accusations of racial discrimination and bullying, Fleiss has fueled controversy about the team taking his place.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A round of applause on the Warner Bros. lot is probably in order for&nbsp;<strong>Samantha Mirabello<\/strong>. She\u2019s the Warners attorney and investigator who, I\u2019m told, looked into&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;franchise creator&nbsp;<strong>Mike Fleiss<\/strong>\u2019s behavior after several staffers complained about racially discriminatory casting and emotional bullying. The results of Mirabello\u2019s probe led Warners and Disney to finally push Fleiss out this week after 21 years as a notorious figure in the unscripted television community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won\u2019t summarize Fleiss\u2019s well-known&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;scandals\u2014resisting diverse contestants; that civil rights complaint claiming outright race bias; allegedly beating his pregnant wife (he denied it); waging a war on his Malibu neighbor&nbsp;<strong>David Charvet<\/strong>&nbsp;that included \u201cloud barking sounds emanating from loudspeakers in the wee hours of the morning.\u201d Behind the scenes, Fleiss has always been a consensus first-round pick for Reality TV\u2019s All-Asshole team, not to mention a classic right-place right-time guy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By most accounts smart and savvy, Fleiss happened to be pitching shows during that crazy 1999-2002 period when the juggernaut broadcast formats that&nbsp;<em>still<\/em>&nbsp;define the genre\u2014<em>Survivor<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>American Idol<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Big Brother<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em>\u2014all debuted. He initially brought a dark genius to the concept of women desperately jockeying for a man, and in those early years he constantly pushed to up the humiliation and shock value, all while packaging the degradation as wish-fulfillment, fantasy romance and soap opera. Then he rode that&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;franchise train for two decades, never creating another hit show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s probably less known is how vindictive Fleiss has been toward colleagues over the years, especially as the franchise flourished. When producer&nbsp;<strong>SallyAnn Salsano<\/strong>&nbsp;left the show after its early success, Fleiss vowed to destroy her, according to two sources who worked on&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>. Instead, she created&nbsp;<em>Jersey Shore<\/em>&nbsp;and sold her company to Fremantle for millions. (Salsano didn\u2019t return my email.) When another&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;handler I won\u2019t name left for a much better job with&nbsp;<strong>Mark Burnett<\/strong>, Fleiss lashed out at her&nbsp;<em>husband<\/em>, who also worked on the show, and refused to renew his deal. That kind of garbage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In more recent years, Fleiss has been a more sporadic presence on the&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;shows, but he was still around and influential. It\u2019s kinda amazing to think that there wasn\u2019t a Black Bachelor until&nbsp;<strong>Matt James<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2021\u2014a situation that spun out of control and led to host&nbsp;<strong>Chris Harrison<\/strong>\u2019s exit\u2014and no Black lead at all until&nbsp;<strong>Rachel Lindsay<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2017. In recent years, ratings for all the&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;shows have waned; this week\u2019s finale averaged just 3.2 million same-day viewers, way down from last year\u2019s 4.7 million and&nbsp;<em>waaay<\/em>&nbsp;down from the heyday. Despite industrywide declines, Fleiss would blame the erosion on the show\u2019s efforts to diversify, even trying to edit Black people out of scenes. He also made moo-ing sounds when he saw a contestant he thought was overweight, according to one show source. Classy guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why is Fleiss out now? According to two sources close to the show, the Warners inquiry began with complaints about casting. Mirabello and her team started with casting executive&nbsp;<strong>Lacey Pemberton<\/strong>, who ended up leaving the franchise, and it quickly led to Fleiss\u2014and specifically, some racially biased casting directives he had allegedly made. In addition,&nbsp;<strong>Martin Hilton<\/strong>, a longtime&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;executive producer, had been an effective buffer between Fleiss and the rest of the staff. But Hilton\u2019s relationship with Fleiss broke down less than a year ago, and when Hilton left, Fleiss interacted more with other producers and staff. Not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, ABC unscripted executive&nbsp;<strong>Rob Mills<\/strong>, Fleiss\u2019s longtime friend, who in later years worked with Fleiss to try to diversify the show, wanted to give Fleiss an ABC development deal. But that was scrapped when the investigation began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now he\u2019s gone. Fleiss, in his ridiculous farewell&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/o7lYn\/https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2023-03-28\/mike-fleiss-the-bachelor-creator-steps-down%23:~:text=Fleiss%20gave%20no%20specific%20reason,he%20said%20in%20a%20statement.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>, praised the choice of&nbsp;<strong>Claire Freeland<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jason Ehrlich<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Bennett Graebner<\/strong>&nbsp;as the show\u2019s new shepherds\u2014as if Fleiss himself was the showrunner being replaced. But those hires are also raising eyebrows because others who have been with the franchise longer had wanted a shot at the top jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not gonna go deep on&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;politics, except to say that several current&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em> employees are looking at their own possible claims and have engaged <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/attorneys\/bryan-j-freedman\/\">attorney&nbsp;<strong>Bryan Freedman<\/strong><\/a>, the same lawyer that represented Harrison in his exit from the show, as well as Fleiss\u2019s ex wife.&nbsp;<strong>Susie Arons<\/strong>, Fleiss\u2019s publicist, declined to comment, as did Warner Bros. and ABC. But Fleiss did send me a statement in which he says he\u2019s \u201cproud of the work we\u2019ve done over the past five years to make the show substantially more diverse, but I do believe I could have done more. Hopefully, the franchise will continue to move in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Fleiss, the dark genius behind the Bachelor franchise, has always been a consensus first-round pick for Reality TV\u2019s All-Asshole team. Even with his exit, following accusations of racial discrimination and bullying, Fleiss has fueled controversy about the team taking his place. 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