Lace Lies for Consideration, Jill and Kira Battle Over Romeo

Season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise wasted no time bringing the drama — and the love connections — throughout the Tuesday, September 27, premiere.

Returning solid member Lace Morris might beg to vary, nonetheless. The BiP season 3 alum, who was briefly engaged to Grant Kemp throughout the 2016 season, obtained off to a rocky begin because the solid, which included contestants from Katie Thurston’s season 17 of The Bachelorette, Michelle Younger’s season 18 of The Bachelorette, Clayton Echard’s season 26 of The Bachelor and Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s season 19 of The Bachelorette, didn’t know who she was.

“I’m all for, like, alumni exhibiting as much as the seaside and all the things, however six years?!” Hailey Malles quipped. “Woman, come on. … You’re finished right here, you don’t have any place.”

In the course of the night, Lace left the occasion to take a nap and declared season 8 the “essentially the most boring” installment of the ABC present but. After Shanae Ankney satisfied her to return, Lace opted to inform everybody it was her thirty second birthday — later admitting to bartender Wells Adams that she was mendacity.

“I informed somebody it was my birthday and so they believed me and I ran with it. After which everybody believed me. And so I simply took it and now individuals suppose it’s my birthday,” she mentioned. “Individuals wish to be pretend in Paradise? I’ll be pretend too.”

Lace used her pretend birthday as a option to spend time with Logan Palmer, however issues didn’t finish properly when he thought her identify was “Luc” as a substitute of Lace.

She concluded: “This is perhaps the worst birthday I’ve ever had. And it’s not even my birthday.”

Elsewhere on the seaside, Romeo Alexander struggled to juggle time with Jill Chin and Kira Mengistu. Each from Clayton’s season, Jill and Kira have been pals till they each took curiosity in Romeo earlier than the cameras have been rolling. Whereas he struck up a possible romance with Jill after his time on Michelle’s season, he later admitted that they’d a falling out as a result of he kissed Kira in a membership.

On the present, Romeo finally informed Kira that he needed to pursue Jill. The doctor then obtained right into a combat with the architectural historian, who Kira felt was avoiding her and lied about her intentions with Romeo.

“I really feel like I’ve been gaslighted by you and Romeo, like, you’ve been telling me he’s only a good friend,” Kira mentioned. “I really feel very disrespected by you. … And also you’ve been, like, slut-shaming me.”

Jill denied the allegations, arguing that Kira is the one “attacking” her and she or he’s “working from it.”

“Is everybody else seeing what I’m seeing? As a result of I’m feeling loopy,” Jill requested the cameras.

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