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Chris Harrison Thinks 'Bachelorette' Hannah Brown Should 'Beware' of Jed


To say Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette has been eventful would be an understatement. Besides the rumors that several of her suitors had girlfriends before joining the show—including current front-runner Jed—Brown’s been slut-shamed not once, but twice by Luke Parker. No one knows what the future holds for Hannah—not even Bachelor maestro Chris Harrison, who tells Glamour magazine, “the rollercoaster ride isn’t over.”

We caught up with the long-running host during the taping of the “Men Tell All” episode, which aired tonight (July 22). Here’s what he had to say about what’s to come.

Glamour: Kaitlyn Bristowe dealt with a lot of shaming on her season, but have we reached new heights on Hannah’s?

Chris Harrison: Look, I don’t think it’s out of control or any different for us than it is for anybody else. It was interesting combining religion, shaming, how everyone is so quick to jump on their soapbox—especially the proverbial soapbox behind your phone or computer, where you’re sitting there on Twitter or Instagram and anonymously just rip someone’s life apart. I’ve always thought that’s chicken shit. It’s cowardly. It’s horrible. If I could give my children a gift in life, it would be to eradicate social media from the face of the earth. I would get rid of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. I would get rid of all of it. I think it’s terrible. I think it’s done a lot more harm than it’s done good in this world. I feel bad that my kids have to grow up with that bullshit. But it’s not going to change.

With that said, I’m wise enough to know there are some good things that have come from it, but I don’t think it’s any different [for the show]. I think we’re just a mirror image of what’s happening in the world. I’m sorry Hannah had to go through it, and I’m sorry Luke probably has to go through it. He’s probably being unnecessarily really bashed more than he has to be. Jed’s going through it right now with all the rumors and innuendos. He’s getting crushed right now. It’s just so easy for everybody in the court of public opinion to run to either that victim hill or accusatory hill and point a finger. It’s just so easy in this day and age. It’s so much harder to have a debate, look someone in the eye, and have a gosh-darn debate.

You brought up Jed—rumors of a girlfriend aside, he said earlier in the season that he originally wanted to go on the show to establish a platform for his career. And then of course we saw the hometown date where his family wasn’t so endorsing of him getting engaged. We hear all about Luke P., but should we be a little bit more worried about Jed right now from what we’ve seen this season?

C.H.: There are enough red flags surrounding Jed to have a parade. Yeah, of course [we should be concerned]. There are a million red flags, and he raised 20 of them himself at the beginning of the show, like you said. He’s the one that said, “I came here for some other reason”…country music, whatever. I don’t know if I’ve seen the guy without a guitar in his hand. So buyer beware with that, and the family said as much too. I mean, when the sister literally looks Hannah in the eye and says, “I don’t think this is a good idea”—if that’s not a red flag, I don’t know what is. So, yeah, those are things Hannah better pay heed to.



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Prince William Reportedly Thinks Prince Harry Is Going ’Overboard’ With Archie’s Privacy


If there’s one thing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have indicated they appreciate as public figures, it’s their privacy. They’ve been especially private about their newborn son, Archie, but if royals sources are to be believed, Prince William thinks they’re overdoing it just a bit.

According to Us Weekly, baby Archie’s recent christening complicated things in the royal family. You see, the atmosphere for the christenings of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, was much more public, with arrivals visible (and even a wave from Charlotte to photogs), but Archie’s was different: In a statement released through Buckingham Palace, Markle and Prince Harry indicated they wanted Archie’s celebration to be an intimate family affair. According to royals insiders who spoke to Us Weekly, this didn’t rub Prince William and Middleton the right away.

“The queen accepted Harry and Meghan’s decision to keep the event private,” the source said, but added that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge “weren’t happy about it.” The source continued by saying that “William thinks his brother is going overboard keeping Archie out of the spotlight,” and that he “blames Meghan” for his approach.

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Granted, none of this has been confirmed, so take it with a grain of salt. If Markle and Prince Harry want to make Archie’s life more private, that’s totally in their right to do so. That being said, this story does contribute to the idea of a feud existing among the Sussexes and the Cambridges. People have gone as far as analyzing Prince William and Middleton’s body language at Archie’s christening to find evidence of a rift. But a royals expert, Katie Nicholl, told Glamour a few months back this just isn’t the case.

“I do think there is some truth to there having been some tension—not just between the duchesses but between the dukes, as well,” she said. “As we all know, things can gather momentum pretty quickly. So while I think there’s been tension, I don’t believe there has been some feud.”



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The Bachelorette Season 15, Episode 3 Recap: Even Hannah Thinks Luke P. Needs to Chill


The next morning Connor S. learns that his big one-on-one date with Hannah is canceled because she’s not feeling well—instead, they’re just going to hang out in her hotel suite while she recovers. He sweetly buys flowers, a card, and chicken noodle soup on the way. The date goes well, all things considered, but Hannah doesn’t give him a rose when he leaves. That might have thrown someone like Luke P. down a spiral, but Connor S. decides to leave sweet love notes on Post-Its around her room to make her feel better when she wakes up from her nap.

It works: Hannah loves the notes so much she sends a limo to pick up Connor S. just so she can give him a rose in person. “Connor made me feel great, even though I didn’t feel great,” she explains. They end the night with a private concert from Lukas Graham.

In the morning Hannah tells us she’s bummed that Tyler G. had to leave. There’s no further explanation for it on the show, but a quick Google search will tell you what happened there.

Moving on: The second group date of the week is a photo shoot with animals. It’s all just promotion for The Secret Life of Pets 2, but I’m not complaining. What? The pets are cute! See?

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Also, this promo gives Demi another opportunity to test out her detective skills. Secret Life of Pets 2 is all about the secret lives of pets—hence the title, duh—so Demi wants to see what the guys secretly do when Hannah’s not around. To determine this, she’s hired a cute woman to pose as a makeup artist and flirt with the guys. None of them take the bait, to Hannah’s joy and Demi’s disappointment (and mine, TBH).

After the shoot is done Luke P. tries to get some alone time with Hannah but she shoos him off. “I need him to slow his roll,” she explains to the camera. “Luke P. stole the show again, but in a negative way.” She even tells him such at the cocktail party later that night once they’re alone. Luke P. being Luke P. he tries to cut her off mid-sentence, but she says sternly, “No, let me talk.” (YES, HANNAH.) “You don’t respect that I have other relationships here…and that bothers me,” she continues. After they part, Luke P. vents to the guys that Hannah spent their whole time together talking so he didn’t get a chance to explain himself. Oh, and he doesn’t understand at all why she’d complain that he’s being cocky so zero lessons were learned. “I’m going to act like that conversation never happened,” he concludes.

And he sticks to his word, attempting to interrupt her conversations with other guys multiple times. Rather than call Luke out, the bros conclude that it’s best to just let him self-implode. Their strategy seems to be working, given that Hannah has to tell Luke to back off so she can talk to every guy before he gets a second turn. “I want to call my own shots,” she tells him. He complains to the guys that he’s thought about leaving. This will surely come back to bite him.

While Luke P. is busy finding new and inventive ways to be the worst, Peter tells Hannah about how his mom and dad met. Turns out Mom saw Dad’s butt and said, “That’s the guy I’m going to marry.” And now I’d very much like to meet Peter’s mother. He gets the rose, but not before Hannah pulls Luke aside and tells him he needs to chill out if he’s going to stay. He claims he understands, but TBD.

The next day Chris Harrison tells the guys they’re having a tailgate instead of the standard cocktail party. So before Hannah arrives, Cam sits everyone down and announces that he has something serious to tell her and they should respect his time. He warns them that there’s a chance she’ll send him home because of this reveal. Lord willing. When he finishes his speech, Mike immediately calls B.S.



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Twitter Thinks This Chart Helps Explain Why You Didn't Love 'Game of Thrones' Last Season


It’s officially been one week since HBO aired its final episode of Game of Thrones, and if you’re like other disappointed fans out there, you’re probably still trying to make sense of that unexpected ending. Though some aren’t pleased with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (and even started a petition begging HBO to remake the last season), there’s some interesting data that might hold some explanation for why viewers were far more interested in the earlier seasons of the hit series.

Vanity Fair writer Joanna Robinson shared a chart on Twitter that tracks the average number of words the characters spoke per minute in each Game of Thrones episode, starting from Season 1. Based on the data, measured by OpenSubtitles.org and charted by Github user mrquart, the number of words in each episode declined throughout the show’s seasons.

You can see the graph fall from approximately 60 in the first season to less than 40 in the last. Meanwhile, season eight’s “The Long Night” episode, which contained the longest and most expensive battle scene in TV history, had the least dialogue with an average of just 15 words per spoken per minute.

As Robinson clarified in a reply to her original tweet with the chart, the data itself isn’t a reflection of quality. “… This isn’t INHERENTLY bad, obviously. I just like the earlier dialogue-heavy stuff so much personally,” she wrote. “… You don’t really need to see this lovely graph if you’ve looked at the scripts themselves—the difference is stunning.”

So if you think that the chattier scenes of earlier seasons were a little better, this might help support that. One user pointed out that the writers ran out of material after season five from author George R. R. Martin’s original books, so things shifted from “being conveyed via words” to, on its own, a more visual approach. Also, as some fans brought up, the show’s average word count could have also decreased in part because of all the battle scenes in later seasons, where there’s not a ton of talking going on.

Of course, fans were quick to chime in about it:

Despite the Game of Thrones‘ lack of dialogue, fans clearly still kept tuning in: In fact, more than 13.8 million viewers watched the final episode live, making season eight’s finale the most-watched of any of the show’s seasons.





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Mother Thinks Women at the University of Notre Dame Should Stop Wearing Leggings


The legging problem—that’s the title of a recent letter to the editor published in the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer. That’s right, a concerned mother thinks young women at the university are causing a major problem with their choice of attire.

The woman, Maryann White, says she’s not trying to “insult anyone or infringe upon anyone’s rights” but that she’s simply “a Catholic mother of four sons with a problem that only girls can solve: leggings.” That’s right, ladies—your choice of pants is a problem for all the boys of the world, in her opinion.

“I was at Mass at the Basilica with my family,” she writes. “In front of us was a group of young women, all wearing very snug-fitting leggings and all wearing short-waisted tops (so that the lower body was uncovered except for the leggings). Some of them truly looked as though the leggings had been painted on them.”

“A world in which women continue to be depicted as ‘babes’ by movies, video games, music videos, etc. makes it hard on Catholic mothers to teach their sons that women are someone’s daughters and sisters,” she continued. “That women should be viewed first as people—and all people should be considered with respect.”

Instead, she says she doesn’t understand why women would choose to wear a garment that exposes “their nether regions” and that she was “ashamed” for the women she saw wearing them to Mass. “I thought of all the other men around and behind us who couldn’t help but see their behinds. My sons know better than to ogle a woman’s body — certainly when I’m around (and hopefully, also when I’m not),” she explained. “They didn’t stare, and they didn’t comment afterwards. But you couldn’t help but see those blackly naked rear ends. I didn’t want to see them—but they were unavoidable. How much more difficult for young guys to ignore them.” White then makes the leap to comparing the wearing of leggings to nakedness that she wants to “throw a blanket over” in hopes of protecting the poor boys who won’t be able to help themselves.

Oh man, that’s a lot to unpack. But let me, an avid legging-as-pants wearer, say that my choice of clothing should in no way—ever—affect whether or not another person can keep themselves from respecting me and my personal boundaries. That’s true for every woman whether she’s wearing a skirt somebody deems too short, her favorite pair of leggings, or skintight jeans. It’s low-key victim blaming and my comfy pants and I want no part of it. Debating what is and is not appropriate for women to wear is certainly nothing new—but it is exhausting and, frankly, annoying considering it’s 2019.

Many female students at Notre Dame agreed.

The Washington Post reports that more than 1000 students had plans to participate in a protest by wearing leggings to class this week. “Participating in #LeggingsDayND with @Irish4RepHealth and thousands of other ND community members in defiance of those who feel entitled to police womxn’s appearance & shift the blame for impropriety,” grad student Kate Bermingham wrote on Twitter.

Another woman at the university wrote about the protests on Facebook announcing Leggings Pride Day: “Hello legging lovers of the Notre Dame Community! Don’t leave your leggings behind(s) tomorrow and join in our legging wearing hedonism! (Or not because what you wear is completely your own choice!) Love your leggings, love your body, love yourself!”

The students then showed off their leggings on social media.

Others off-campus also showed their support.

Turns out many of the male students White is so worried about are a little more evolved, and also thought White’s letter was problematic. “I was raised to respect women no matter what they are wearing. So, I think women should be able to wear leggings if they want to,” one student told The Observer. “In my opinion, I would never tell someone else how they can or cannot dress, because that is a personal choice, and it doesn’t affect me,” another said. “So, why should I tell other people what to do?”

It’s not clear exactly how many students participated in the protests, but I think the organizers made their point—and started a real conversation on campus about how people try to police and judge women’s bodies and choices. Maryann White is probably horrified. I’m just proud.



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Tucker Carlson Said People Should Watch His Show If They Want to Know What He Thinks. Here's What I See.


Last weekend, Tucker Carlson woke up to world of pain. A researcher at Media Matters had dug up hours of his call-ins to a radio show called Bubba The Love Sponge. You can dig into all his deeply offensive opinions elsewhere, but here’s a lowlight reel, as summed up in the Washington Post: he implied underage marriage (that, to be clear, involves child rape) is not as serious as other instances of child rape, deemed rape shield laws “totally unfair” and said he would “love” to watch teen girls experiment, sexually. He also called women “primitive,” just to top it all off.

If this all sounds familiar, it’s because Tucker Carlson has demonstrated sexism, racism, and homophobia in prime time for a decade. This is the man who told writer Lauren Duca, “You should stick to the thigh-high boots. You’re better at that.” It’s also because the Republican Party now teems with men who sexualize and dehumanize women in both public and private, and then use their power to advance laws that have more or less the same effect—restrictions on reproductive choices, statutes of limitation that make it harder for women to seek justice, support for NDAs that silence those who suffer workplace harassment, and on and on. Less than 48 hours ago, a judge had to block a GOP-backed law that prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected at six weeks, before many women even know they’re pregnant. In 2012, a Republican state representative perhaps made his point a little too clearly, comparing women who might have to then carry a nonviable fetus to term to farm animals: “I’ve had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive; delivering pigs, dead and alive,” he said. “It’s breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.” Sure. It’s almost as if…when men don’t see women as people, it’s easier to deny them control over their own lives.

Carlson’s week deteriorated from there, with additional audio releases. In one, Carlson calls a (underage) contestant in Miss Teen USA “dumb” and he too compares her to an animal. “She’s like, she’s vulnerable,” Carlson said. “She’s like a wounded gazelle, separated from the herd.”

Carlson, of course, hasn’t apologized for these remarks, even as he’s lost 34 advertisers over it. In a statement, he wrote, “Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago. Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why.”

It’s the kind of word salad that could make your blood boil—textbook deflection, coupled with Carlson’s usual indignation. But this time, it’s almost true. The Carlson who calls into Bubba the Love Sponge isn’t all that different from the Carlson who hosts a show on Fox News. And so in that sense his show does illuminate how he thinks. In the anchor chair, his views are afforded a somewhat more polished veneer. But people who watch his show or who’ve observed the GOP in action over the past several decades know what just what the movement stands for. Their camp is headed by a thrice-married adulterer who paid off two different women during his campaign and then won the White House. What’s there to apologize for?



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