The Bachelorette star Jenn Tran has reacted to Devin Strader and Sam McKinney's nasty and ongoing feud on the show.
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When asked if she was aware that Devin and Sam M. truly disliked each other while she was dating both of them on the show, Jenn admitted on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast, "I actually had no idea."
She added on the podcast's August 1 episode, "I didn't know until I watched the show."
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Jenn got a little quiet during her interview with the podcast's co-hosts Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt, and she didn't pick a side or dive deeper into the beef between the two frontrunners.
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"I had no idea what was going on in the house," Jenn said about drama in general.
Jenn apparently had "no idea" that Sam Nejad had rubbed many guys the wrong way, and she also wasn't privy to heated conversations between Devin and Thomas Nguyen.
"It's crazy watching it back to see how much conflict there is and how much I didn't know about it," Jenn admitted.
Jenn, however, had an inkling that Devin and Aaron Erb were butting heads during their first week in Melbourne, Australia.
"Obviously in the second episode when Aaron and Devin were kind of pulling me from that group date cocktail party, I was like, 'Okay, maybe there's something going on there,'" Jenn pointed out.
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"But I had no idea the extent of the bickering between the boys."
Before Aaron quit the show to pursue fight-pilot training, he warned Jenn that some of the guys on The Bachelorette weren't ready for an engagement and that some of the men were on the show for the wrong reasons.
Aaron declined to give Jenn specifics, which left her feeling frustrates and angry.
"I immediately thought that Aaron was talking about Devin, and I wanted him to just say it!" Jenn vented.
"I wasn't blind, I knew that they had beef from the ice-cream situation. So I wasn't dumb, but I was like, 'If you're going to [drop a bombshell], man up and [be specific]."
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But Jenn noted that it was probably a "good" thing she was left in the dark for most of the confrontations, conflict and arguments. The only fight she overheard was between Thomas and Devin when she had been left alone in a room with her glass of champagne.
"I'm glad no one wasted our time telling me what was going on. But yeah, it's kind of crazy!" Jenn concluded.
Many The Bachelorette fans, including Season 21 bachelor Grant Ellis, have applauded Devin for speaking his mind, taking advantage of solo moments with Jenn, and prioritizing her this season.
But Devin has been at the center of drama on The Bachelorette since Episode 2.
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Sam M. and Thomas teamed up against Devin and called him a "bully" and an "ankle-biting dog." The men thought that Devin's aggressive tactics in trying to woo Jenn were disrespectful, and they viewed him as being arrogant and selfish.
Sam N. nearly had the whole house against him on the latest The Bachelorette episode when he boasted about his rugby team's victory during a group date, and ironically, he and Devin were close.
Devin even called Sam N. his "little brother" in the cast and stood up for him.
Jenn eliminated Sam N. during the rugby group-date afterparty in New Zealand, but Devin received a rose during his one-on-one date in Auckland -- and so the drama isn't going to end any time soon considering Sam N. and Thomas are also still around.
The Bachelor alums Rachel Recchia and Ben Higgins recently took jabs at Devin on "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast."
Jenn has clearly established an emotional connection with Devin on The Bachelorette, but Ben admitted, "I don't think he's the right one for Jenn."
And Rachel confessed that Devin reminds her of her ex-fiance Tino Franco who had cheated on her.
"[Devin] is giving me the ick," Rachel said.
"I think there's something about Devin that really throws up red flags for me because he reminds me a lot of Tino and this, like, winner mindset and this, 'That's my wife.' Like, this is Week 2! It's giving the same sort of vibe for me."
Rachel said she believes Devin's self-confidence is "what's really getting under the guys' skin."
Rachel, however, called Thomas the real "bully" on the show, and Ben agreed that Thomas was probably the issue. Rachel therefore concluded that she was "over both Thomas and Devin."
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The Bachelorette's July 29 episode ended with Jenn preparing for the fourth Rose Ceremony of the season and having the shock of her life when ex-boyfriend Matt Rossi showed up begging her for a second chance.
Click here to read episode-by-episode spoilers about how Jenn's The Bachelorette season unfolds, including who Jenn picks as her winner and runner-up.
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