The villain arc continues! Some Bachelor Nation fans weren’t thrilled to hear that Shanae AnkneySeason 8 of the franchise will see him returning to the franchise Bachelor in Paradise.
“Shanae on BiP doesn’t sit right with me. She wasn’t just a ‘villain,’ she was straight up ableist hello???” one Twitter user wrote after the casting announcement was made in August 2022.
Others, however, were rooting to see her second act. “Please put Shanae on Bachelor in Paradise. It would make life so much funnier,” another fan wrote via Twitter in April.
As a contestant on reality TV, the 30-year old personality was not well-received. Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelorearlier in the year. She drew backlash for her treatment of the other women in the villa — particularly her comments about Elizabeth Corrigan’s ADHD diagnosis.
After Shanae, 33, pushed Elizabeth, 29 during an obstacle course race, and told Clayton, 29 that the Colorado native was one of the red flags of the bunch, the women had a heated exchange during a January 2022 episode.
“You’re one way one minute with me and then you’re [another]One after another. Like, that’s two-faced to me,” Shanae said, criticizing the real estate advisor for ignoring her during a conversation they’d had previously.
Elizabeth explained that Shanae didn’t respond to her, and that she was trying her best to focus on what. Ency AbedinWas saying.
“It’s really hard for me to have multiple auditory inputs because I can’t process the information. I have ADHD, I’ve had it really bad since I was a kid,” she said.
Despite the fact that they are two BachelorThe contestants ended their conversation with a hug. However, the conflict resurfaced later in that evening. Shanae accused Elizabeth of lying about their feelings in their previous chat when she revealed that Elizabeth was still upset by Shanae’s trash-talking Clayton. She then implied that Elizabeth was lying about having ADHD and stormed out saying, “Fake, fake, fake. ADHD, my ass.”
Clayton was open to giving the recruiter many chances throughout his season, but he spoke out against her conduct once the episodes started airing. Clayton gave the recruiter multiple chances during his season, but he spoke out against her behavior once episodes began airing. Bachelor viewer tweeted that it was “honestly scary how manipulative” Shanae was during a February 2022 episode, the Missouri native retweeted it, adding the comment, “Lock her up! She’s killed all my credibility already.”
After Elizabeth’s elimination episode aired in January 2022, the medical sales representative apologized to her via Twitter.
“I’m sorry, Elizabeth, for what you’re going through. I wish I could have seen what was happening when I wasn’t there,” Clayton wrote at the time. “I would have sent Shanae home immediately for making fun of you for being neurodivergent, had I known.”
Scroll through for five things to know about Shanae’s Bachelor Nation drama ahead of her stint on Bachelor in Paradise:
