‘The Bachelor’: Luke Pell admits last-minute change; Andi Dorfman supports Nick Viall

We’re still reeling from the surprising announcement of “The Bachelor” earlier this week as Nick Viall, and it just so turns out that we’re far from the only person. It certainly seemed as though Nick was a last-minute choice for the role, and now Luke Pell is confirming that even further.

In talking to Us Weekly about how he learned at the very last second that he wasn’t going to be the Bachelor, Luke went so far as to say that he had his entire life in order:

“We were all satisfied, had agreed to the contracts and everything was moving forward … I was checked in to my flight to come to L.A. I got a call from producers Sunday night at about 10 p.m. They said ABC had decided to quote-unquote go in a different direction. I was supposed to fly out Monday morning at 9 a.m. I had my bags packed and everything. Most dramatic Monday ever!”

Luke said that he is happy to go back to his life in Nashville and doing some different things there, and that he probably wouldn’t be interested in going through this process again with everything involved.

In some other news, Andi Dorfman made the classy move of wishing Nick well in a post on social media. She is one of the two Bachelorettes who rejected Nick on separate seasons, and she has remained a story on “Bachelor in Paradise” because of her recent book. He at times stood up for her on the show, especially when Josh Murray tried to frame her comments as a work of “fiction.”

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