'The Bachelor' host Chris Harrison: You definitely want to keep your eye on one bachelorette

The Bachelor host Chris Harrison has thrown out one girl viewers should pay attention to following the show's premiere episode.


"You definitely want to keep your eye on [Kaitlyn Bristowe]. It really threw Chris, but he really liked her and her sense of humor and that she was a little aggressive. I think some people would've been thrown by that and I even was, but the more you get to know her, you'll see they have something," Harrison told TV Guide of Bristowe's "plow the fields" comment.

Harrison teased it's possible one bachelorette in particular may be putting on an act.

"That's the million dollar question with [Britt Nilsson] and will continue to be with her in the coming weeks. How legit is this girl? Is she really sincere? Is there more to this girl he needs to get to the bottom of? You look at her and him, and you see the chemistry and passion, but is there more with her?" the host said.

Harrison is definitely hoping Soules will see more from Tara Eddings, who got very drunk during the first night's cocktail party and made a bit of a scene.


"People will give Chris a hard time for keeping her, but early on she wasn't that wasted and she was fun and then she got a little tired and sloppy. Chris was very turned off by it and disappointed," he explained.

"We had a very long talk -- he was close to getting rid of her -- but I said, 'Look, Night 1 is tough, you've been there, it can give the best of you. If you had a good first impression, maybe go with that. If she does it again or next week is a disaster, you can still say goodbye, but maybe give her a pass on the back half of the night.'"

Six women in the cast of 30 bachelorettes this season are under the age of 24-years-old. With many young women competing for the 33-year-old farmer from Arlington, IA -- who is looking to settle down with someone and start a family -- Harrison still noted it's not much of a concern for Soules.

"He didn't care at first and the longer it goes, the more you'll see it's based on lifestyle and similarities. He was really good about giving everybody a fair shake and embracing the whole thing, but he was overwhelmed early on, but also blown away, and he really opened his heart and didn't hold back, which is evident in the first episode when he gave Britt the first rose -- and made out with her," Harrison told TV Guide.

"One of the things I learned about Chris is that he has no regrets. He would struggle with the rose ceremony and those decisions, but being older, as soon as he made those decisions, he moved on. He would make decisions and not have regrets -- not that he didn't make mistakes, but you live with it and move on."


Now that The Bachelor's first episode has aired, Harrison insisted he's pretty impressed with Soules as their new star.

"He did a really good job getting to know people and he recalled a lot of tidbits they said and impressed the women because he was paying attention and is serious. They sensed the sincerity very quickly," he said.

Although Soules is being presented as the kind, down-to-earth, gentlemanly guy, Harrison told TV Guide his casting was not an attempt to counter the previous controversial season with Juan Pablo Galavis.

"I know everyone is gravitating towards the anti-Juan Pablo stuff, but honestly I didn't give him a second thought after the final rose ceremony. We were done with him, and he was done with us and going another away and he wasn't going to be a part of The Bachelor family -- and that's fine. We were more than happy to move on," Harrison noted.






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