‘The Bachelorette’ & TV’s Obsession With ‘Likable’ Women

It was the pop heard around the world. Or at least around the Bachelor mansion. In the second episode of The Bachelor season 24, Kelsey Weier, a 28-year-old contestant from Des Moines, Iowa, gave fans one of the most tweeted-about moments in recent Bachelor history after she stormed through the Bachelor mansion in a pale gold jumpsuit, wiped her tears from her eyes and went on a heated, expletive-filled tirade in front of Peter, her Bachelor, and Hannah Ann, a contestant who popped an expensive bottle of champagne Kelsey had been saving for a special occasion for more than a year.

The moment, dubbed #ChampagneGate, went viral, with hundreds of thousands of...

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