Bachelor’s Clayton Echard Says Shanae Ankney ‘Killed’ His ‘Credibility’: ‘Lock Her Up’

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Hindsight 20/20. Clayton Echard gave Shanae Ankney several chances on The Bachelor, but he’s not happy about it now that he’s had a chance to watch the episodes.“It’s honestly scary how manipulative Shanae is like is she secretly a serial killer,” a Bachelor viewer tweeted during the Monday, February 7, episode of the ABC series.

The former NFL player, 28, retweeted the message, adding the comment, “Lock her up! She’s killed all my credibility already.”Fans have anointed the Ohio native, 29, as the “villain” of season 26 after her clashes with several other suitors.

Her fellow contestants seemed to believe Clayton would send her home on Monday after she threw a group date trophy in a pond, but he gave her another chance when she tearfully apologized to the women for her actions.In a confessional interview, however, she revealed that she didn’t feel sorry at all, adding that she deserved an Oscar or Emmy for her “performance.” The episode ended with Clayton taking her on a 2-on-1 with Genevieve Parisi, but he hadn’t yet made a decision about which woman would receive a rose.Ahead of the show’s January 3 season premiere, the Missouri native admitted that he “did some things wrong” during filming. “There’s plenty of words that you can pick — chaotic,” he told Us Weekly in December 2021. “I wasn’t there 24/7 around all the women, so I’m gonna see things for the first time myself.

And I’m excited to see what that looks like. Obviously, I heard a lot of the drama that I wasn’t present for, but now I’m like, ‘OK, maybe I’ll catch somebody that told me a story that maybe doesn’t exactly match up with what I see.’”Earlier this month, the reality star apologized to Elizabeth Corrigan after her January 31 elimination.