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Izzy Goodkind: I Didn't Want Nick Viall as the Bachelor

USmagazine.com:

State of disbelief! Izzy Goodkind sat down with Us Weekly Video and exclusively revealed how she felt when her former Bachelor in Paradise costar Nick Viall was picked as the season 21 Bachelor. Watch what she said in the video above!

Viall, a two-time Bachelorette runner-up who dated Jen Saviano on Paradise season 3 over the summer, was announced as the new Bachelor on August 30. Goodkind, who competed for Ben Higgins' affections on The Bachelor season 20 earlier this year, can be counted among the many people who assumed that The Bachelorette season 12's Luke Pell would land the coveted gig instead.

"You should have seen my face when they pulled [Nick] out to announce it," Goodkind, 25, tells Us. "When I went onto Ben's season, they announced Nick first as [the Bachelor on After Paradise] kind of like a joke, and I remember I started crying. I called my mom like, 'I don't want to do it. I don't want to be on The Bachelor if Nick's the Bachelor.' So when they brought him out again [this year], I said, 'Oh, this has to be a joke.'"

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Nick Viall Regrets Revealing He Slept with Andi Dorfman

People.com:

It used to be that what happened in The Bachelor Fantasy Suites, stayed in The Bachelor Fantasy Suites. But that all changed when Nick Viall came into the picture.

"I don't think sex is a taboo thing," Viall tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week's issue. The next Bachelor famously revealed on national television that he had slept with Bachelorette Andi Dorfman while on her season, and his intimate relationship with Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe was a major story line on hers. 

Says Viall: "I'm an open book so I don't mind the fact that it's out there. People are well aware of the fact that Andi and I slept together, as well Kaitlyn and I, but I slept with two women that at the time I felt deeply for and thought there was a good chance I could end up with."

The frustrating part, says the 35-year-old entrepreneur, "is that people can't be objective. By a lot of people's opinions, I'm slutty or a man whore simply because of those two things. It's a little silly. I'm no saint, but that's not who I am."  

However, when it comes to spilling the beans about his sexual past with Dorfman live on After the Final Rose in 2014, "I regret that in the sense that it unnecessarily and unfairly caused Andi to get a lot of flack. I wasn't trying to accomplish that. Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors."

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