THE BACHELOR’S Greer Blitzer has been accused of making an offensive comment to her Indian-American co-star Lekha Ravi while filming the show, The U.S. Sun can exclusively report.
Bachelor Zach Shallcross’ contestant Greer, a 24-year-old medical sales rep from Houston, was previously called out by fans for defending a blackface photo in deleted social media posts.
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Greer has since apologized for the “ignorant and uneducated” past tweets.
But The U.S. Sun has now learned Greer made a comment multiple eyewitnesses called “offensive” on the day the 30 contestants arrived to The Bachelor mansion late last year.
Greer’s comment to Lekha, 29, was filmed by show cameras, a source claimed, but did not eventually make it to air.
An onlooker told The U.S. Sun: “Lekha was talking to the women about how she wanted to do something different for her first impression.
“She wanted to present Zach with a flower garland, which is tradition in her culture.
“Greer then said to her, ‘Oh, you’re Indian? I thought you were white. You look white.'”
The source further claimed that Lekha was “shocked and thrown off by the comment.”
“She didn’t know what to say back to Greer.”
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The U.S. Sun reached out to Greer and ABC for comment.
LEKHA SPEAKS OUT
Lekha recently took to Instagram to recap her thoughts on being part of the show for one episode- and commented on her controversial decision to lick Zach’s ear.
She said: “I am totally over the lick, and don’t regret it.
“But initially what I wanted to do was that in my culture, you put a garland of flowers over each other’s neck, when the couple gets married and the flowers represent beauty, happiness and excitement.”
“I wanted to put it on [Zach] and have him put it on me.
“I felt like I did what I could. You know it’s a first step forward to, our community being represented more.”
According to her bio, the financial advisor was born in Chennai, India, and moved to the United States when she was 7 years old.
She currently resides in Miami.
She took to Instagram to share her thoughts on getting sent home the first night:
“Obviously things didn’t turn out anything quite as expected and I had no idea what I signed up for, but I took a chance and leap of faith and I’m glad you guys got to see my personality and character shine through on screen.”
“I left with no regrets because of that and I’m proud of staying completely authentic and true to myself in this entire process.”
She later called out Zach’s “boring Bachelor energy” after fans criticized his behavior on the show’s first two episodes.
RATINGS CRISIS
After this season’s premiere had the lowest ratings in the show’s history, the network executives at ABC “are not happy on any level,” according to a production source.
The source previously told The U.S. Sun: “If numbers continue to decline, ABC will have no choice but to eventually pull the plug.”
The source added that the show could either be canceled completely or moved to a streaming platform.
A source also revealed that behind the scenes, execs and producers are “worried they made the wrong casting choice” by casting Zach, who has been pegged “the most boring Bachelor ever.”
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