Tahzjuan Hawkins Speaks Out After Blake Horstmann Accuses ‘BiP’ Producers of Editing Bug: Premiere Reactions

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Tahzjuan Hawkins Speaks Out After Blake Horstmann Accuses 'BiP' Producers of Editing Bug: Premiere Reactions

Just when you think Tahzjuan Hawkins admitting to going on a date with Tre Cooper’s uncle is the craziest thing that went down on the season 7 premiere of Bachelor in Paradise, Blake Horstmann accuses the producers of inserting a fake bug into a scene between the new couple. “Guys, was this bug edited in? This does not look real. … Guys, that was a computer-generated bug!” the 32-year-old Bachelorette season 14 runner-up exclaimed via Instagram Stories while watching the Monday, August 16, episode of the ABC spinoff. “They are now editing bugs into this show? That is fake! That is a fake bug! … They literally edited a computer-generated bug into this show and y’all don’t think they will edit words into our mouths? They put a f—k bug into this show!” Tahzjuan, 28, who appeared alongside Blake on season 6 of BiP, shut down his theory. “Can we take a minute to discuss the bug?” she said via her Story. “That was a real bug. There was no CGI. At all. I don’t freak out at weird, non-existent things. Thanks Tre for helping me out. Blake, we gotta get you a new TV.” Fans watched Tahzjuan and Tre, 26, bond during Monday’s premiere and during one of their scenes together, she freaked out over a bug flying around her head on the beach. [jwplayer RCntRTj5-l3ahXupL] “Real talk. @trecooper_ was the real MVP tonight #BachelorInParadise,” she tweeted during the show. Tre, who appeared on Katie Thurston’s season earlier this year, replied with a GIF of Justin Timberlake from Saturday Night Live that read, “Oh, stop it.” This is hardly the first time that Blake has accused Bachelor producers of enhancing story lines. “In that environment, you have nobody else to lean on. [You’re experiencing] lack of sleep, you’re not eating right, you’re drinking. It’s very emotional and is easier to get manipulated in that environment, obviously, than in your regular life,” he said of contestant-producer relationships on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast in March. “But at the end of the day, the decisions you make are your own, they can’t make you do anything. Now, it is scary in editing when that they can frankenbite and they can take words that you’d say at different times and put that together. And that is super scary.” Bachelor in Paradise airs on ABC Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Scroll through for more Bachelor Nation reactions to the premiere:

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Tahzjuan Hawkins Speaks Out After Blake Horstmann Accuses 'BiP' Producers of Editing Bug: Premiere Reactions

Just when you think Tahzjuan Hawkins admitting to going on a date with Tre Cooper’s uncle is the craziest thing that went down on the season 7 premiere of Bachelor in Paradise, Blake Horstmann accuses the producers of inserting a fake bug into a scene between the new couple. “Guys, was this bug edited in? This does not look real. … Guys, that was a computer-generated bug!” the 32-year-old Bachelorette season 14 runner-up exclaimed via Instagram Stories while watching the Monday, August 16, episode of the ABC spinoff. “They are now editing bugs into this show? That is fake! That is a fake bug! … They literally edited a computer-generated bug into this show and y’all don’t think they will edit words into our mouths? They put a f—k bug into this show!” Tahzjuan, 28, who appeared alongside Blake on season 6 of BiP, shut down his theory. “Can we take a minute to discuss the bug?” she said via her Story. “That was a real bug. There was no CGI. At all. I don’t freak out at weird, non-existent things. Thanks Tre for helping me out. Blake, we gotta get you a new TV.” Fans watched Tahzjuan and Tre, 26, bond during Monday’s premiere and during one of their scenes together, she freaked out over a bug flying around her head on the beach. [jwplayer RCntRTj5-l3ahXupL] “Real talk. @trecooper_ was the real MVP tonight #BachelorInParadise,” she tweeted during the show. Tre, who appeared on Katie Thurston’s season earlier this year, replied with a GIF of Justin Timberlake from Saturday Night Live that read, “Oh, stop it.” This is hardly the first time that Blake has accused Bachelor producers of enhancing story lines. “In that environment, you have nobody else to lean on. [You’re experiencing] lack of sleep, you’re not eating right, you’re drinking. It’s very emotional and is easier to get manipulated in that environment, obviously, than in your regular life,” he said of contestant-producer relationships on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast in March. “But at the end of the day, the decisions you make are your own, they can’t make you do anything. Now, it is scary in editing when that they can frankenbite and they can take words that you’d say at different times and put that together. And that is super scary.” Bachelor in Paradise airs on ABC Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Scroll through for more Bachelor Nation reactions to the premiere:

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Clare Crawley

The season 16 Bachelorette, who left the 2020 season within the first two weeks of production to be with contestant Dale Moss, threw some shade tweeting, “Shocked production let Kenny acknowledge I was part of the season.”

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Chelsea Vaughn

“This champagne bottle has gotten more air time than I did on my entire season of The Bachelor,” Matt James’ contestant tweeted, referring to Kelsey Weier’s infamous champagne-gate, which was revisited on Monday’s premiere with guest host David Spade.

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Joe Amabile

The Chicago native made waves on social media for his return to BiP after calling it quits with Kendall Long, whom he met on season 5. While watching himself flirt with Serena Pitt on Monday’s episode, he tweeted, “I don’t know how I got a kiss after this convo.”

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Deandra Kanu

The Bachelor season 24 alum shut down speculation that she had a hickey during the premiere, tweeting, “Y’all I have hyper sensitive skin. Not a hickey. Im dead.”

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Clay Harbor

“Unpopular opinion. Previews are better than the show. #BachelorInParadise,” the BiP alum tweeted.

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Ivan Hall

“For the record, this will be the best season ever of #BachelorInParadise,” the Bachelorette season 16 alum tweeted.

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Adam Gottschalk

“Ivan has first day of school jitters walking into paradise @BachParadise let the best man win,” the BiP season 4 alum tweeted before admitting he was “missing” former host Chris Harrison in a separate post.