The Biggest Scandals In 'Bachelor' And 'Bachelorette' History

On the final episode of Bachelorette Hannah Brown's season, she confirmed she had broken off the engagement with Jed Wyatt because he had been dating ex Haley Stevens the entire time. He reportedly told Stevens that Brown meant nothing and being on the show was just a scheme to further his music career. However, when Brown found out (thanks to a cover story in People), he claimed he had never really dated Stevens, despite admitting they had met each other's families, gone on multiple vacations together, and said "I love you" more than once. 

Brown handed back the ring, leaving her once again single at the end of the season. However, she did ask runner-up Tyler Cameron out on a date in the reunion live show on the finale.

In 2010, Jake Pavelka was presented as a swoon-worthy Bachelor: handsome, romantic, and a pilot to boot. But that didn't stop cast member Rozlyn Papa from going after another man: one of the show's producers. When the scandal broke, host Chris Harrison was quick to kick Papa off the show, but she fired back and denied the rumors. She claimed she was really let go because the producers didn't want her to tell Pavelka she had a son.

The Bachelor stood by their claims. Of the incident, Harrison told People:

She had a physical relationship with a producer on our show. You cannot do that. There is no gray area... Other girls on the show saw it. The producer confessed more than once and to more than one person. I cannot make it any clearer.

Andi Dorfman's 2014 season of The Bachelorette gave #BachelorNation the ultimate love-him-or-hate-him cast member: Nick Viall. Even though he always seemed to be at the center of controversy with the other men in the mansion, Viall made quite the impression on Dorfman; he snagged her first impression rose, thrived on one-on-ones, and made it all the way to the top two before Dorfman let him go in favor of Josh Murray (which didn't last).

Viall's place in Bachelorette scandal history was cemented forever on the After the Final Rose special, when he revealed to the world on live TV that he and Dorfman hooked up in the Fantasy Suite. The confession caused quite a stir, and Viall says he regrets it - kind of:

I regret that in the sense that it unnecessarily and unfairly caused Andi to get a lot of flack. I wasn’t trying to accomplish that. Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors.

Juan Pablo Galavis was a scandalous Bachelor in general throughout his 2014 season: he made homophobic comments during press tours, shamed Clare Crawley for getting intimate with him in the ocean (when he was a willing participant), and didn't try to actually get to know any of the women he was supposedly dating.

This all came to a head after his Fantasy Suite date with Andi Dorfman. She called the overnight date "a nightmare," saying:

I saw a side to him that I didn’t really like... Every time I started to talk about feelings or started to talk about, you know, something from my past or whatever, it was always him that started telling his own story. It was all stories about him, and not once did he really ask anything about me... I just started to realize that he didn’t really care about who I was, and what I thought, and what I want in life... It blew my mind that he thought that was okay to talk about [Crawley's overnight date]... There’s just no filter with him.

When she confronted Galavis on camera about his remarks in the Fantasy Suite, he dismissed her concerns saying, "It's okay, it's okay" and encouraged her to leave. 

Who could forget Courtney Robertson? During the 2012 season of The Bachelor, the model constantly insulted the other contestants, was notoriously hated by the other women in the house, and practically invented the line "I'm not here to make friends" - but none of that was as scandalous as her major move. Robertson will live on in Bachelor infamy for convincing Ben Flajnik to skinny dip with her and allegedly have sex in the ocean while the show was filming.

Flajnik ultimately got on one knee to propose to Robertson at the end of the season. The two eventually broke up, but Robertson wrote a tell-all memoir, I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain. “It was about 20 seconds,” she said of her tryst on television, adding a note from Flajnik. "He was like, ‘Well, 50,000 people just saw that.'”

The first Canadian Bachelorette, Jillian Harris, fell hard for musician Wes Hayden during her 2009 season. During filming, it came out that Hayden was only on the show to promote himself as a country musician, but Harris didn't want to believe it. She held out for Hayden until it was revealed that he had a long-term girlfriend back home.

When she finally kicked him to the curb, he claimed he was "the first guy on The Bachelorette to ever make it to the Top 4 with a girlfriend."