

To the casual observer, it may seem like some show in the ever-widening Bachelor franchise is always on television: the year begins with The Bachelor, summer brings Bachelor in Paradise, and fall is all about The Bachelorette. Lather, rinse, repeat. But what Bachelor Nation knows that others do not is that there’s even more drama worth following outside of that cycle—everything that happens on Instagram, for example. Blink, and you’ll miss it. And I miss most of it, so of course, I missed a big Bachelor-sized beef between Colton Underwood, Rachel Lindsay, and Raven Gates (from Nick Viall’s season). Here’s what went down.
August 2019
When Rachel Lindsay married the winner from her season of The Bachelorette, Bryan Abasolo, observant stans noticed that Raven Gates was nowhere to be found at the ceremony. They also noticed that when Raven announced her forthcoming wedding to a former contestant from Rachel’s season of The Bachelorette, Adam Gottschalk (Raven and Adam linked up during Bachelor in Paradise), Lindsay did not congratulate them on Instagram. That may seem innocuous, but it’s a big deal on Planet Bach. Clearly, something was up between them, because they used to be very close. They both suffered through dating Nick Viall, after all.
October 1, 2019
Lindsay went on Watch What Happens Live, where she was asked to shed some light on what caused her apparent falling out with Raven. She confirmed something was up by replying, “I can’t say. I promised I wouldn’t say. But it was enough for me to not want to be friends with her anymore.” Andy Cohen followed up with, “And you’re still not friends with her?” Rachel quickly retorted, “No, and I never will be.” Yikes.
October 3, 2019
Colton Underwood, the blonde potato who was your most recent Bachelor (he jumped the fence), decided to insert himself into the Rachel vs. Raven feud. The former football player commented on a Us Weekly Instagram post about the Watch What Happens Live incident, writing, “Shocker. Rachel mad at another person… does she like anyone?” Fans asked why he was hating on her, to which he replied in another comment, “I’m not weighing in on the Rachel/Raven drama. I could care less about that, not my business. What is my business is the countless number of times she’s spoke [sic] poorly of me… including that time she ran her mouth about me to Cassie…Funny thing is I have never met her,” E! reports.