{"id":1186805,"date":"2022-01-04T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1186805"},"modified":"2022-01-04T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:05:17","slug":"i-hated-him-new-bachelor-clayton-echard-faces-rejection-by-two-contestants-on-the-first-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-hated-him-new-bachelor-clayton-echard-faces-rejection-by-two-contestants-on-the-first-night\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Hated Him\u2019: New \u2018Bachelor\u2019 Clayton Echard Faces Rejection By Two Contestants On The First Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-hated-him-new-bachelor-clayton-echard-faces-rejection-by-two-contestants-on-the-first-night%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1186805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Each season of \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d is dramatic, but usually it\u2019s the contestants fighting amongst themselves. That\u2019s what makes the newest season unique as main man Clayton Echard is facing a whole new challenge: Multiple women aren\u2019t interested in him.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode aired Monday and showed two women drop out of the contest. First, contestant Salley Carson shared that she had previously been engaged and wasn\u2019t sure if she was emotionally ready to seek a new relationship. To make matters worse, \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d filming dates happened to coincide with her canceled wedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was supposed to be my wedding day,\u201d Salley said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/new-bachelor-off-to-rough-start-as-one-contestant-denies-his-rose-and-another-hated-him-065627233.html\">according to<\/a> Yahoo News. \u201cI didn\u2019t know it\u2019d be so hard to be here today. Like, I just want to be with my family. The reality of it is, ever since I\u2019ve been here, I\u2019ve been an emotional wreck, and it sucks. Like, I want to be excited. I\u2019m sure all the girls here are excited. But it\u2019s hard to get in that mindset of like, hey, I can do this. So I need to talk to Clayton, and that\u2019s scary because he doesn\u2019t know I\u2019m coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clayton accepted Salley\u2019s admission and said he was still interested in keeping her around. The \u201cBachelor\u201d star even offered to give the former fiancee the first rose of the season to help convince her to stay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But that move would become Clayton\u2019s first rejection of the evening. Ultimately, Salley decided to quit her quest for the football star\u2019s heart before it even began. She said, \u201cHere\u2019s the thing. I know we both felt that connection. And I really like you. I want to accept that rose. But my heart is just not in the place where I can. And I feel so bad about that. My heart\u2019s just not ready. I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, the \u201cBachelor\u201d star admitted that he didn\u2019t handle rejection well. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was tough,\u201d he said. \u201cThe first rose that I have given out as the Bachelor was rejected. One of my biggest fears is being rejected, and it\u2019s important for me to understand that love is a two-way street. Even though I\u2019m the Bachelor, I still have to win the hearts over of these women. I\u2019m just hoping that what I give I can receive back. So I\u2019m scared that this is how it\u2019s gonna be. This is not the way that I was hoping to start my journey to find love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hits kept coming for Clayton as the night went on. Next, contestant Claire Heilig decided to leave when she realized the leading man was a bit too nice for her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a catastrophe,\u201d Claire explained during the interview. \u201cI beat his a** in cornhole and then the girl walked up and was like, \u2018Hey can I steal you?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Go. He sucks.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI can\u2019t be with, like, America\u2019s sweetheart. I hated him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And they aren\u2019t the only ones who took issue with Clayton. Many Bachelor Nation fans were disappointed that producers picked him as the next Bachelor rather than making the show more diverse, which they\u2019d been striving toward in previous seasons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been these moments of relief and surprise that made it seem like things were really going to change for the better,\u201d Bachelor Nation fan Myah Genung told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2021-12-21\/the-bachelorette-2021-finale-michelle-young-clayton-echard\">LA Times<\/a> after learning they\u2019d picked a white man and not a black man. \u201cBut that has been immediately followed by disappointment and a reversal to the status quo, where there are glaring signs that they\u2019re privileging white men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With record low viewership numbers on the last season of \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d it would make sense for producers to ramp up the drama and inspire more fans to tune in. That could lead to more rejection for Clayton, especially now that he admitted how difficult it is for him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each season of \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d is dramatic, but usually it\u2019s the contestants fighting amongst themselves. That\u2019s what makes the newest season unique as main man Clayton Echard is facing a whole new challenge: Multiple women aren\u2019t interested in him. The first episode aired Monday and showed two women drop out of the contest. 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