'Dancing With the Stars' Fans Can't Believe Bachelorettes Won 2 Seasons in a Row
11/24/2020 12:50 pm EST
During an interview with Us Weekly, Inaba said she understood why fans thought this, suggesting that most of Bristowe's fans are used to the kind of romantic intrigue from The Bachelorette. "It's like, there's jealousy there and there's this and that because that's what the Bachelor and Bachelorette are all about, right? It's about creating stories about everybody," Inaba told Us Weekly. As for why she pushed Bristowe, Inaba admitted to being tougher on female dancers as a female dancer herself.
"I tend to push women a little harder because I understand it from their perspective, so I know exactly what I'm pushing for because I can feel it from them that they're so close to it," Inaba continued. "And I know it was hard and I know that they were frustrated but it happens all the time."
After winning the trophy, Bristowe told Entertainment Tonight it was "so surreal," adding, "I keep being like, 'What? It all flew by! It happened in the blink of an eye.'" Chigvintsev, who never even made it to the DWTS finale before, said it was "super surreal" for me. "I always watch from the sidelines, and I find that actually being here and experiencing it, it is actually surreal. I'm just so happy for Kaitlyn to be here and living her dream, her dream coming to reality," he told ET.
"I'm convinced now that anytime a Bachelor/Bachelorette contestant is on [DWTS] that it's rigged for them to win. Happy for Artem's first mirror ball, not happy that it was with Kaitlyn," one fan wrote.
Some Twitter users suspected ABC rigged DWTS to help promote The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Of course, commercials for The Bachelorette aired during the finale. The show airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
Another person suggested DWTS has just become a "Bachelorette popularity contest." Another viewer asked DWTS to stop including Bachelor and Bachelorette stars as contestants because "they are not stars [and] because of [their] ridiculous fan base."
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