Garrett Yrigoyen, one of 28 cast members on Becca Kufrin’s season of “The Bachelorette,” appears to have a history of…
Garrett Yrigoyen, one of 28 cast members on Becca Kufrin’s season of “The Bachelorette,” appears to have a history of liking social media posts that mock trans people, undocumented immigrants, left-wing women and one Parkland high school student.
And as of Monday night, he seems to be a frontrunner on the show.
During the season’s premiere episode, Kufrin, clad in radiant white, stood at the end of a gleaming, wet driveway and greeted her suitors.
Toward the end of the night, she awarded the first impression rose to the man who most caught her fancy: Garrett, a 29-year-old square-jawed medical sales rep. “Since he pulled up in that minivan, I was smitten with him,” Kufrin told the camera. “I’m the luckiest guy in the world right now,” said Yrigoyen, grinning widely. The start of a televised fairy tale indeed.
In the olden days of “The Bachelorette,” the lead and the audience would be equally ignorant about the seemingly charming man they’d just met. But now we have Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and while at this stage in the show Becca still doesn’t have access to her bachelors’ social media accounts, viewers do.
Before the show even premiered, some fans had begun to dig up unsettling activity on the first-night favorite.
Yrigoyen’s Instagram account, made private on May 24 and then deleted, appears to have liked numerous posts from right-wing pages, including that of conservative personality Tomi Lahren and a clothing company called Merica Supply Co. These “likes” were first captured via screenshots and posted on an anonymous (now private) Instagram account @imwatchingyuuo on Wednesday afternoon. (Yrigoyen now appears to be back on Instagram under a different handle, according to Reality Steve.)
Former “Bachelor” contestant Ashley Spivey then posted the screenshots to Twitter.