‘You’ll never, ever know’: Osher Günsberg on how seriously the Bachelor franchise takes the mental health of contestants
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TV consumers will never be aware of the true extent of mental health support available to contestants, host of Bachelor in Paradise, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, Osher Günsberg, has claimed.
This year there has been increased scrutiny on the wellbeing of contestants both within the filming environment, and how they cope with feedback and backlash once the edited version of ‘reality’ goes to air.
A contestant from this year’s Bachelor in Paradise, Jamie Doran, has said he is commencing legal proceedings against Ten and Warner Bros over his portrayal.
Doran is not happy with how he was edited
Not only are they ‘effectively visitors to a worksite’, they are actually employees if you look at the recent case won by a House Rules contestant:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-23/landmark-house-rules-compensation-case-in-wcc/11630330
The fact that mental health support is needed to produce this show should tell you enough.
The only wholesome part of this show is Osher.
Everything else it promotes, as well as the contestants themselves are the personification of what is wrong with society today.
Wont somebody please think of the children??!!