ABCThrough a letter, editor-in-chief Jessica Piels explains why the Cosmo team has decided to pull cover featuring Victoria Fuller who competes on Peter Weber’s season of the ABC show.
- Feb 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – Peter Weber‘s season of “The Bachelor” aired a new episode on Monday, February 3. During the episode, contestant Victoria Fuller won a chance to grace Cosmopolitan cover with Peter after winning a game during a group date in Costa Rica. However, the magazine has recently announced that the cover will no longer be published digitally.
Through a letter that was posted on Cosmo’s website on Monday, editor-in-chief Jessica Piels explained that the Cosmo team has decided to pull Victoria’s cover after photos of her surfacing of posing in “White Lives Matter” clothing surfaced online.
“As you probably know, the details about upcoming plot points on The Bachelor are as closely guarded as nuclear codes,” she wrote in the letter which was titled “Why We’re Not Publishing the Cosmo Bachelor Cover”. “When my team and I flew down to Costa Rica for our challenge, we weren’t told who our models were going to be. We didn’t even meet them until we were all on camera on-set, ready to start our shoot.”
“So when it came time for me to choose the winner of the challenge–whose prize was a digital cover of Cosmo–all I knew about the contestants were their first names and the energy they conveyed through the camera lens,” she went on saying.
“In my view, the nature of the organization is neither here nor there–both phrases and the belief systems they represent are rooted in racism and therefore problematic. Unequivocally, the White Lives Matter movement does not reflect the values of the Cosmo brand. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, and any cause that fights to end injustices for people of color,” she added.
Concluding the letter, Piels wrote, “My team and I had many long discussions about how we wanted to address this issue. We’d already printed the fashion shoot in our March issue, complete with an inset of the cover, and of course the episode had already been filmed. Ultimately what felt right was choosing not to publish the digital cover on our website or social feeds, and simply being honest with you, the audience we respect, about what happened and where we stand.”
Nor Victoria and ABC have yet to comment on the matter.
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