EXCLUSIVE: There’s extra change inside The Bachelor universe.
Deadline understands that co-executive producers Michael Margolis and Keely Sales space have exited the ABC courting franchise.
It comes amid difficult circumstances behind the scenes of the Warner Bros. TV-produced present and its spinoffs.
Final month, Deadline revealed that The Bachelorette had been paused for its conventional 2025 cycle, resulting in a slew of crew members shedding their jobs on the franchise.
Subsequently, a dozen former and present producers on the franchise accused showrunners and govt producers Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner of working a “poisonous” and “hostile” setting, accusations that the pair deny.
Margolis and Sales space, who labored on the post-production aspect of the franchise, weren’t impacted by the exodus however resigned on the finish of final week. Deadline understands that Warner Bros. TV didn’t solicit their resignations.
Margolis is Freeland’s husband and he and Sales space joined the franchise final 12 months.
Earlier than engaged on the ABC model of The Bachelor, the pair had beforehand labored on the Canadian model of Bachelor in Paradise, a present Freeland beforehand ran.
Margolis was a sequence director of Canadian variations of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise and has additionally directed episodes of reveals together with Border Safety: Canada’s Entrance Line, Love It or Checklist It Vancouver and #cats_the_mewvie.
Sales space was showrunner of Bachelor in Paradise Canada and a senior story producer on the Canadian model of The Bachelor in addition to an govt producer of The Liquidator in addition to an govt producer of #cats_the_mewvie.
The Bachelor, starring Grant Ellis, is at present in Season 29, airing on Monday nights on ABC.
