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| Credit: Craig Sjodin/Walt Disney Television via Getty It was blamed on being stressed and anxious. You can t really share this after the show because that isn t a great look for
The Bachelor, it s not a great look for the contestants, he said. It s not a great look for the show, that I was sick the whole time.
And the Indiana native said that it made it hard for him to film the romantic dates. You have to imagine what it s like to be sitting on a date with somebody else, and all of a sudden you go, uh oh. You tap out. You run. You run, he said.
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