The Popular TV Host Sticking It To Woke Cancel Culture With New Series

It’s been five years since Chris Harrison was forced out of “The Bachelor,” the franchise he helped build for nearly two decades. One controversial interview in which he discussed charges of racism toward one female contestant was enough to end his run as the face of the show. He apologized, but apparently Hollywood had decided he was beyond forgiveness.

Now Harrison is returning to television with “The Vow” premiering on Fox Nation November 11, and I couldn’t be happier for him. The way he was treated was disgraceful. Plus, I love a good comeback story, especially when it blows up in the faces of the people who tried to cancel him.

In 2015, I left my job at Fox News to compete for the heart, and hopefully a final rose, of Iowa farmer Chris Soules on Season 19 of “The Bachelor.” Eleven years later, watching Chris Harrison return through Fox Nation is a full-circle moment I never could have imagined.

My time on the show was a wild, life-changing experience, filled with highs and difficult lows. It opened doors I never expected, introduced me to a world I wouldn’t have known otherwise, gave me lifelong friendships, and taught me more about myself than I could have imagined. I wouldn’t change a thing. But looking back at the show I was part of in 2015, it’s hard to believe how much has changed.

I remember Chris Harrison being a genuinely nice, normal guy. He’d occasionally stop by the mansion to hang out with us, and I even made him lunch one day. (Yes, we actually cooked our own meals!) I only knew him from the show, but my experiences with him were always positive.

When I joined “The Bachelor,” social media was growing rapidly, but it hadn’t yet become the political battleground it is today. People weren’t digging through years of someone’s posts looking for a reason to destroy their reputation, and political disagreements weren’t automatically treated as moral failings.

I was a conservative Christian, and my background wasn’t exactly a secret. My appearance even received national coverage from The Washington Post on several occasions, a well-known left-wing outlet that spoke positively about my faith and politics rather than treating them as some sort of scandal.

My beliefs haven’t changed, but the culture certainly has. I was fortunate to be on the show before cancel culture took hold. I genuinely don’t believe “The Bachelor” would cast me today, but if I somehow made it through casting, I have no doubt I’d be painted as some intolerant, villainous bigot.

When Chris Harrison came under fire in 2021 for his interview with former contestant Rachel Lindsay, I defended him immediately. I thought the outrage was overblown then, and I still do. Harrison was asking people to show a contestant some grace rather than rush to judgment.

Rachel Lindsay and I probably agree on very little. I’ve never been a fan of her woke ideology or her victimhood mentality. Watching her throw daggers at a man who helped build the very franchise that catapulted her career to another level was hard to stomach.

The irony is that Harrison tried to keep someone else from being canceled, only to get canceled himself. He apologized, but after nearly two decades as the franchise’s face, they dropped him. Ratings, already declining, kept falling.

When I appeared on “The Bachelor” in 2015, the show averaged 8.2 million viewers. By 2025, that number had fallen to just 2.6 million. Harrison was more than a host. With a new cast every season, he was the one familiar face who made the show feel like home. And the franchise hasn’t exactly helped itself, most recently with the Taylor Frankie Paul controversy that derailed an entire season of “The Bachelorette.”

“The Bachelor” never should have let Harrison go, and now it seems they’re realizing their loss is someone else’s gain. The studio behind the franchise recently sent a cease-and-desist letter over promotional material for his new show. As Harrison joked, “Sounds like somebody misses somebody really bad.”

Harrison and his wife, Lauren Zima, created the new show together, focusing on faith, marriage, and lasting commitment. After years of helping others find love on television, he’s now doing it alongside his own wife.

I think Harrison has a real shot at success. Generations of women grew up watching him on “The Bachelor,” and many are now looking for something beyond manufactured drama. A show that takes marriage and commitment seriously might be exactly what they’ve been waiting for.

What I love most about his comeback is that he didn’t grovel, bow down, or kiss the ring of the people who pushed him out. He lost the job that defined his career for nearly two decades, but he refused to let Hollywood dictate his future.

Cancel culture came for Chris Harrison, but in the end, he got the final rose.

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Jillian Anderson King is a former Washington Redskins Cheerleader Ambassador and ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelor in Paradise contestant. She’s a Mombassador for Moms for America, an ambassador for Turning Point and Turning Point Faith, and a proud Christian Conservative mother and wife. Jillian is also the founder of The Kings Firm, a strategic communications firm.

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