Fans of The Bachelor aren’t here for Colton Underwood’s drama with Rachel Lindsay. After Underwood reignited his petty feud with the former star of The Bachelorette, fans accused him of being immature.
The Underwood/Lindsay drama first started when news broke of a rift between Lindsay and another Bachelor Nation star, Raven Gates. Although the two women were once close friends, Lindsay explained on Watch What Happens Live that Gates had done something worthy of ending the friendship, though she wouldn’t specify exactly what happened. When news outlets picked up the story, Underwood responded with a catty comment that implied Lindsay was always mad at someone. He later clarified that his statement had nothing to do with Lindsay’s relationship with Gates, and that he was instead angry about negative comments Lindsay made in the past to his girlfriend, Cassie Randolph. The feud seemed to die down over the past few weeks, until Underwood made another snarky Instagram comment on a post that referenced Lindsay’s rocky relationship with Bachelor Nation co-star, Vanessa Grimaldi. “Love to see it,” Underwood wrote on a post claiming that the two enemies were now friendly.
While Underwood can’t seem to leave Lindsay alone, Bachelor Nation fans are over the drama. According to Cheat Sheet, Bachelor fans have been flooding Colton’s Instagram with comments calling him out for refusing to let things go. They expressed that his behavior was petty and immature, and asked him to move past his disdain for Lindsay. “Why are you even commenting? Stop being messy!” one fan wrote. Another expressed that he was just making himself look bad. “Your trolling and sarcasm make her opinion of you more valid,” they said. Fans also wondered why Underwood chose to attack Lindsay specifically. “Out of all the people that have talked about you why do you seem to be picking on Rachel?” one commenter wrote. Fans pointed out that Underwood has been criticized heavily by many people, and yet he seems particularly interested in forcing Lindsay to take back her words.
While Underwood won’t let things go, Lindsay seems fairly shocked by the feud. She refused to respond to his comments on Instagram, but she did state on the YouTube series Whit & Ry that she never spoke badly of Underwood to Randolph. She also claimed that she was confused about Underwood’s obvious anger towards her, and extended an invitation to him to come on her podcast and talk things out. Underwood responded with another snarky comment, telling Lindsay that he’d be happy to come on her podcast if she left the entire episode unedited. He ended his Twitter post with, “Looking forward to meeting you & pointing out your hypocrisy over the last year.” With an ending like that, it’s pretty obvious why Underwood hasn’t actually appeared on the show.
While Bachelor Nation fans can be totally over the top on some issues, they seem to have the right idea on this feud. Despite Underwood’s disdain for Lindsay, his comments also make it clear that the two of them have never actually met. His anger towards her is based on things he’s heard alone, and he hasn’t expressed any real interest in hashing things out and explaining his side of things. Instead, he resorts to sarcastic social media posts filled with plenty of hate for the fellow Bachelor Nation star. The fans are right - it is immature.
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Source: Cheat Sheet
