HuffPo.com:
They looked happy as can be after getting engaged on the finale of “The Bachelorette,” but Becca Kufrin and her now-fiancé, Garrett Yrigoyen, have been the subjects of a more downcast conversation ever since news of his troubling Instagram activity made headlines before the Season 14 premiere in May.
Yrigoyen, a 29-year-old medical sales rep from Reno, Nevada, was caught having liked social media posts that mock trans people, undocumented immigrants, left-wing women and a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. He deleted his account (garrett_yrigs12) in May and created a different one, issuing an apology addressed “to those who I have hurt and offended.”RELATED: How Becca Kufrin's Engagement Ring Compares to Other Bachelorette Bling
His double-taps were discovered right as Kufrin, 28, was making her initial press rounds as the new star of the long-running ABC reality series. At the time, network representatives told reporters, myself included, not to ask about Yrigoyen in interviews with her ― a hint that he might make it pretty far in the competition for Kufrin’s heart. And, well, he did, proposing with a Neil Lane ring on the shores of the Maldives during the finale this week.
Since then, Yrigoyen has joined her on a postseason media tour, facing inevitable questions about his not-so-great social media activity.
“I didn’t mean to offend anybody. I apologize for that still,” Yrigoyen told “Bachelorette” host Chris Harrison on the “After the Final Rose” special Monday night. “I didn’t mean to hurt anybody’s feelings or do anything like that. So I stand by everything that I posted in my apology [on Instagram], and I’m just trying to grow as a person, be a better person on a daily basis.”
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