'The Bachelor' Star Mari Pepin Accuses Producers of "Frankenbiting"

If you've ever wondered just how manufactured the drama is on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, it...depends on who you ask. The Bachelor and its franchise friends definitely aren't scripted shows—and considering the wild spoiler news from Joey's season, there are plenty of plot twists. But former contestant Mari Pepin (who competed on Matt James' season and went on to find love on Bachelor in Paradise) claimed that the show uses "Frankenbiting"—aka when audio clips are edited together to make new sound bites.

Speaking to The Mirror, Mari explained “Frakenbiting is when they take little snippets of audio and they kind of like weave it together to form a sentence and now to me it’s really obvious. But sometimes they’re really good at hiding it. So they’ll take part of this sentence and part of that sentence and make the person sound like they just put it together."

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Soooo, how do you recognize it while watching? According to Mari, "If you don’t actually see their mouths moving while they say it there’s a good chance that it’s actually ‘frankenbitten’ and edited in a certain way."

Mari also said her own audio was edited at times, saying “I can’t recall them off the top of my head now but I remember watching back and being like ‘That’s not what I said' or they cut off a part of a sentence to make it sound like it was something else. You definitely pick up on it as a contestant and now watching it as a fan I am able to pick it up."

Something to look out for as Joey's season continues, I guess!

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