Garrett Yrigoyen From The Bachelorette Reportedly Has a History of Liking Bigoted Posts on Instagram
Garrett may not have wowed us on Monday night’s premiere of The Bachelorette (that distinction went to Jordan), but he did charm Becca Kufrin enough to walk way with the first impression rose. As of Tuesday, however, it appears as though Becca might have spoken too soon. Multiple news outlets are now reporting that Garrett (full name Garrett Yrigoyen) appears to have a history of liking racist, sexist, transphobic, xenophobic, and otherwise bigoted posts on Instagram.
According to InStyle, Yrigoyen’s likes were first screenshotted by Instagram account @iamwatchingyuuo, which appears to have since been deactivated. He also appears to have deleted the Instagram account from which he liked the posts in question, @garrett_yrigs12, and replaced it with a new one, @garrett.yrigoyen. But it looks like he wasn’t fast enough: On May 24, Bachelor Season 15’s Ashley Spivey tweeted out screenshots of the alleged likes. Meanwhile, Refinery29 and HuffPost both confirmed that the likes in question were real.
“Can we do a better job of social media deep dives on the dudes that try out for #thebachelorette – FYI douchebags we can see your likes [sic]…After Lee’s problematic @$$, [sic] I truly thought this would be something we paid better attention to,” Spivey tweeted, referring to the racist tweets of Bachelorette Season 13’s Lee Garrett. “A contestant on this season of #thebachelorette liked all of these posts on Instagram and I’m thinking it will be very hard to pull for the type of person likes [sic] any of this.”
The posts in question include those that mock plus-size leftist women, trans people, boys who wear makeup, target Colin Kaepernick’s #BendTheKnee protest, joke about soldiers throwing immigrant children over Donald Trump’s “wall,” and spread a (debunked) conspiracy theory about Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor David Hogg being a “crisis actor,” among others.
While some fans have responded to the news of Yrigoyen’s likes with dismay (especially since he’s the rumored frontrunner), others dismissed criticism of his likes as being “anti-conservative.”
Glamour has reached out to ABC for comment and will update this post with their response.