The Worst ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette’ Villains in the History of Bachelor Nation

Michelle has *deep* Bachelor experience, that’s for sure. She was on season 15 of The Bachelor, season 2 of Bachelor Pad, and even won season 1 of Bachelor in Paradise. She earned villain status throughout for her frequent tiffs with other contestants.

No one really enjoyed Jordan Kimball during his time on Becca Kufrin’s season. He argued constantly with the other contestants and was accused of being too into himself and his modeling career and not into Becca enough.

I don’t want to pick sides, but some people consider Juan Pablo to be the worst Bachelor in the history of the entire show. The dude clearly had commitment issues. He didn’t seem to be romantically interested in any of the women, but that definitely didn’t stop him from hooking up with a few of ’em. Yuck.

Men! Should! Not! Objectify! Women! Ryan Bowers must not have gotten that memo, as he told Bachelorette Emily Maynard that “every man should believe his wife is a trophy.” Emily eliminated him during their date because, yep, his comment was that bad.

Reality Steve crowned Trish the true first villain of The Bachelor and Bachelorette franchise, so you know it’s real. Might I remind you that this OG pot-stirrer wore a T-shirt that read, “Gold Digger. Like a hooker, just smarter.” Oof.

On Emily’s season, Kalon apparently referred to her young daughter as “baggage.” The other contestants let Emily know ASAP and Kalon was told by Emily herself to GTFO immediately. Boy, bye!

Olivia was one of Ben Higgins’ favorites initially—until she made a comment comparing fellow contestant Amanda Stanton to one of the stars of Teen Mom. The women were also not fans of her attitude and behavior, and they were visibly happy when she was eventually sent home.

Umm...aside from the fact that Lee bumped heads with so many other contestants, let’s not forget that he also posted some SUPER racist tweets before appearing on the show?

Nick is no longer considered a villain, but when he first appeared on season 10 of Bachelorette, he was definitely disliked. The other guys thought he was too confident, and he ended up hurting Andi’s feeling when he revealed details about what went down in the fantasy suite. Rude.

Yes, Nick was on two different seasons of The Bachelorette and yes, he was disliked on both. He decided to literally just show up because he and Bachelorette Kaitlyn had been DM’ing on social media. He, once again, had issues with the other guys and was responsible for a lot of the drama, sooo it seems like it’s definitely a him problem, IMHO.

Plain and simple, Kasey sucked during his time on Ali Fedotowsky’s season of The Bachelorette. But the worst part of his story is what happened after the show: He went on to date fellow Bachelor alum (and fellow villain!) Vienna Girardi. The two, unsurprisingly, did not have a smooth relationship.

Chris Harrison pulled Rozlyn aside for a straight-up awkward-as-hell confrontation that will forever go down in Bachelor history. It came to light that she was allegedly fooling around with a producer on set who, BTW, was also fired. Yeah, um, that’s not exactly how this competition works.

On Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season of The Bachelor, Krystal was dubbed “the mean girl” by the other women. She was accused of spending too much time with Arie and bullying the other contestants. Oh, and people were especially not fans of the baby voice she used.

Courtney made it clear when she was on Ben Flajnik’s season that she didn’t join the show to make friends. She was there to win, and win she did. But not without making enemies along the way. The time she made Ben go skinny-dipping with her definitely goes down as her most “villainous” act.

The funny thing is that Courtney was very aware that she was a villain—she even hinted that it was her intention all along. Oh, and after the show aired, she released a book about her villainous status called I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends. Sounds about right.