Season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise wasted no time bringing the drama — and the love connections — in the course of the Tuesday, September 27, premiere.
Returning solid member Lace Morris might beg to vary, nonetheless. The BiP season 3 alum, who was briefly engaged to Grant Kemp in the course of the 2016 season, received off to a rocky begin because the solid, which included contestants from Katie Thurston’s season 17 of The Bachelorette, Michelle Young’s season 18 of The Bachelorette, Clayton Echard’s season 26 of The Bachelor and Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s season 19 of The Bachelorette, didn’t know who she was.
“I’m all for, like, alumni showing up to the beach and everything, but six years?!” Hailey Malles quipped. “Girl, come on. … You’re done here, you have no place.”
During the night, Lace left the celebration to take a nap and declared season 8 the “the most boring” installment of the ABC present but. After Shanae Ankney satisfied her to return, Lace opted to inform everybody it was her thirty second birthday — later admitting to bartender Wells Adams that she was mendacity.
“I told someone it was my birthday and they believed me and I ran with it. And then everyone believed me. And so I just took it and now people think it’s my birthday,” she mentioned. “People want to be fake in Paradise? I’ll be fake too.”
Lace used her pretend birthday as a strategy to spend time with Logan Palmer, however issues didn’t finish properly when he thought her title was “Luc” as a substitute of Lace.
She concluded: “This might be the worst birthday I’ve ever had. And it’s not even my birthday.”
Elsewhere on the seaside, Romeo Alexander struggled to juggle time with Jill Chin and Kira Mengistu. Both from Clayton’s season, Jill and Kira had been mates till they each took curiosity in Romeo earlier than the cameras had been rolling. While he struck up a possible romance with Jill after his time on Michelle’s season, he later admitted that that they had a falling out as a result of he kissed Kira in a membership.
On the present, Romeo ultimately informed Kira that he wished to pursue Jill. The doctor then received right into a struggle with the architectural historian, who Kira felt was avoiding her and lied about her intentions with Romeo.
“I feel like I’ve been gaslighted by you and Romeo, like, you’ve been telling me he’s just a friend,” Kira mentioned. “I feel very disrespected by you. … And you’ve been, like, slut-shaming me.”
Jill denied the allegations, arguing that Kira is the one “attacking” her and she’s “running from it.”
“Is everyone else seeing what I’m seeing? Because I’m feeling crazy,” Jill requested the cameras.
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