Clayton Echard Is Already Planning to Call Out Shady 'Bachelor' Contestants on the Women Tell All

Few choices for a lead have unified Bachelor Nation quite like the casting of Clayton Echard as the new Bachelor. Sure, the fandom is unified by confusion and WTF reaction GIFs, but hey, we're looking on the bright side.

FWIW, Clayton is very much aware that no one understands why he was chosen to be the Bachelor, but he wants all of BN to know that he's way more interesting and leading-a-season-of-TV-worthy than his edit on Michelle Young's season of The Bachelorette may have suggested.

"I think people—a lot of people—are asking the question, 'Who is this guy? What is he gonna bring?' Everyone is gonna see that," he told Entertainment Tonight. "My personality, all of that is gonna come out, and I’m ready just to watch it."

Then, almost as if to prove that he will, in fact, make Good TV, Clayton added that he's excited to watch his season of The Bachelor specifically so he can find out if any of the contestants were secretly lying to him and, if so, proceed to put them on blast during the Women Tell All special in a few months.

"That’s gonna be a whole new side of it that I'm gonna watch for the first time," he explained. "I was told about a lot of things but now I’m gonna find out who actually was telling the real story. That will be fun to see and, who knows, maybe fast forward to the Women Tell All and maybe I'll be having some questions for some people. I'll be like, 'Hey, the way you recounted this, that's not what I saw.'"

ABC is already teasing the major ~drama~ of Clayton's season, including the fact that he falls in love with not one, not two, but THREE women by the time he has to hand out the final rose and that he's "intimate" with at least two of them (a detail he's going to reveal to the contestants on-camera, apparently).

The whole situation was v emotional, according to Clayton, who says he cried a BUNCH of real tears during filming.

"Those were genuine tears," he explained. "It was tough and I cried more tears than I thought I was gonna cry by far. I've experienced way more emotions than I thought I would feel but that was my journey and I was just navigating it to the best of my ability and based on what came my way."

Clayton's season premieres on Monday, January 3 on ABC, if you're not actively boycotting the fact that Brandon isn't the next Bachelor.

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