Rachel Lindsay Just Explained the Shady Way ‘Bachelor’ Contestants Gossip Without Getting Caught on Camera – Cosmopolitan.com

You know when you’re at work, and Lisa from accounting says something ridiculous in a full team meeting? You always really want to talk about it with your best work friend, which means you’ll have to wait until you get back to your desk to Gchat. We all know this is the law. But what happens when you’re a Bachelor contestant, and every move you make is caught on camera? You have to get shady about talking shit when you’re not miked up. That’s what.

On her podcast, Bachelor Happy Hour, former Bachelor contestant and Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay explained the creative ways she and her costars used to vent while shooting. Honestly, these people should teach a master class in secrecy. Blair Waldorf is literally shaking.

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“We’d wake up before anyone else. Me, Whitney, and Astrid would wake up super early in the morning before they mic you,” she explained. “We’d get a cup of coffee, we’d go to the gazebo, and we would just talk. Say all the things we couldn’t say on camera. They eventually caught onto that and they pulled us away.”

Ugh, I would literally pay for another subscription service (in addition to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon and HBO…so you know I mean it) just to see these lost, untaped conversations.

Rachel also confessed that she would sneak around the mansion to talk to the other contestants. Apparently, there was a super strict hall monitor (Bachelor Mansion has hall monitors? K.) and the women would be sent to their rooms before the group date came home. Rachel hated having to wait until the next day to hear what happened, so she would take matters into her own hands.

“I would bear crawl across the balcony, pull back the curtains and be like ‘Astrid! What happened on the date?'”

I mean…considering I can’t even get through a season without reading Reality Steve spoilers, I’d prob do the same. No judgement, Rachel.