PSA courtesy of upcoming Bachelor Zach Shallcross: Don’t watch this season if you only watch The Bachelor for “dumb drama.”
So at this point, I’ll assume we’re down to the Bachelor purists who are 100% #WatchingForTheRightReasons or the Bachelor Nation skeptics who love “dumb drama” and are still not convinced there is a way to make a full season of The Bachelor without any of it and we can continue. So, yeah, Zach is out and about, promoting the hell out of his turn at the lead of the series, and he pretty much thinks he has the most pure season of love journey documentation ever filmed by ABC cameras.
“I would tell the critics and the fans, if you wanna watch something or this show and actually see love and no bullsh*t and not a scene or not an act, then I think you’re really gonna love this [season],” he told Us Weekly in the lead-up to his season’s premiere on Monday, January 23. “If you are someone that wants the unnecessary dumb drama—alright, [but] I might not be your guy. Plain and simple.”
Zach also told Us Weekly that he and Rachel fell short in the communication department ahead of their v dramatic Fantasy Suites week split during the last season of The Bachelorette. And, FWIW, it sounds like any drama he went through as a Bachelorette contestant only made him less likely to encounter drama as the Bachelor, because he knows exactly what he wants out of his time as the show’s lead. And, spoiler alert, what he wants is the true love, epic romance that the franchise has been selling all of us since day one.
“I feel like the Bachelor world—Bachelor/Bachelorette—they literally coined the different terms of love: ‘Falling in love, in love, I love you.’ For me, yeah, it was something that was definitely in my mind,” he explained. “I’m someone that believes you have one true love, like, the one person that your heart just yearns for. The one you think of when you go to bed. The one you think of when you wake up. You only have one love, but there are varying degrees of love to get to that point. And your heart knows what it wants. It can get pulled into different directions and that’s something that can happen. But for me, I am a firm believer that there is just that one true love.”
So, you know, get ready for the…least dramatic season of The Bachelor EVER.