The Bachelorette's Shawn Booth and Nick Viall may be husband material in Kaitlyn Bristowe's eyes, but the two men are apparently not Bachelor material, according to host Chris Harrison.
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"If you look at our Final 2, I don't know if either one would really make a good Bachelor," Harrison told Reality TV World on Tuesday.
The Season 11 finale of The Bachelorette is set to air on Monday, July 27 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC. During the After the Final Rose special that follows, Harrison usually makes the announcement of who will become the next The Bachelor star.
Harrison admitted Bristowe's winner and runner-up are not exactly being considered for the role. Viall, for instance, is either loved or hated by fans.
"The fact [Nick] had been on the show twice, yeah, he is polarizing, I don't think that he would necessarily [work out]," Harrison said before reiterating how neither Viall or Booth would "honestly" make great Season 20 stars of The Bachelor.
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"People hear that and all of a sudden, there's this headline, like, 'Oh my God, he thinks Nick and Shawn are bad people' and we 'don't like them.' That's not the case. It doesn't make them bad people. It doesn't make them anything other than it takes a certain type of person, I think, to be the Bachelor."
Harrison simply believes there are better choices out there, such as Ben Higgins, Ben Zorn or Jared Haibon.
"I just think we have other candidates from this season that are better suited to be the Bachelor than Nick and Shawn would be," Harrison told Reality TV World.
While multiple reports claim The Bachelor producers have already chosen Higgins as its upcoming star, Harrison also confirmed to us the franchise's next leading man has yet to be officially selected.
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