‘Bachelor’ Bad Boy Chad Johnson Defends Fellow Villains Corinne Olympios, Olivia Caridi After Night Out

Chad Johnson has embraced his bad boy image, which he more than earned while appearing on Season 12 of “The Bachelorette,” and is using it to connect with others like him. He recently revealed that he’s been texting with “Bachelor” Season 21 villain Corinne Olympios, but now they’ve reached a new milestone in their friendship.

Chad and Corinne appear to have gotten together with Olivia Caridi, whom you may remember from Season 20 of “The Bachelor.” The trio posed for a photo together, dubbing themselves “Team Olichorinne,” a combination of their first names. In his caption, Chad defended the behavior of Corinne — as well as himself and Olivia, suggesting that they’re all “misunderstood.”

Earlier this week Chad revealed that Corinne had turned to him for advice on dealing with the pressure of appearing on “The Bachelor.” He told ET Online he had been “texting” with her, though at the time they had never met in person. Corinne confided in Chad when things on the show began “getting kind of tough.”

“She’s good [now]. I think at first, she had the same emotion as me. She was like, ‘No, I’m good. I got this,’ and then a couple weeks down the line, I think she texted me like, ‘This is getting kind of tough,’” Chad told ET. “But yeah, she seems pretty cool...she obviously doesn’t care at all what anybody thinks.”

Corinne is still currently on “The Bachelor” vying for star Nick Viall’s affections. She is one of four remaining cast members, though Bachelor Nation knows that competitor Rachel Lindsay is out of the running. She will instead go on to find love on her own in Season 13 of “The Bachelorette.” Spoiler blogger Reality Steve originally reported that Corinne was being sent home in Season 21, episode 8, after hometown dates. That has proven to be untrue, leaving fans more uncertain than ever about who Nick will choose when the show comes to an end.

It has been widely reported that the final two will come down to Raven Gates and Vanessa Grimaldi. Raven will, according to Reality Steve, be sent home, making Vanessa the Season 21 winner. This may shock some “Bachelor” fans as she was reconsidering her participation in the series after returning home to Montreal, Canada, with Nick to meet her family. Her parents and siblings shared their doubts about Vanessa’s relationship with Nick, which didn’t sit right with the special education teacher.

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