Former The Bachelorette contestant Luke Parker seems to be in some legal trouble with the producers of the show. Parker is being ordered to pay a hefty fine for breaching his contract.
Parker made it all the way to the final four before being sent home by Hannah Brown. The former reality star had quite an interesting season. In the beginning, Hannah really fell for Parker and gave him her first impression rose. After the first night, it all went downhill. Parker was quickly named the villain of Brown's season, for saying "I love you" to her way too quickly. She also judged Hannah Brown for having sex during fantasy suites. On her last date with Parker, Hannah finally realizes that he is not the man she thought he was. She sent him home. He tried to get back into her good graces, but she wasn't having it. Parker may have made a good first impression, but he left a bad last impression.
According to WKYC Studios, NZK Productions Inc., which is the production company behind the popular reality dating series, first filed a petition against Parker in May, when he breached his contract with the company. The judge awarded the production company $100,000 in damages due to Parker's contract breach. The motion was enforced on September 30 and now it looks like Parker is going to have to fork over the money. His contract with the company was written and finalized in January 2019, just a few months before he appeared on Hannah's season of the reality show. The contract clearly stated that Parker was prohibited from making any unauthorized media appearances from the time the contract was signed until one year after the final episode of his season aired, which would have been July 2020.
Clearly, Parker did not listen to the contract, as he had made multiple media appearances that were not authorized by the production company. Many of those appearances occurred between September 2019 and October 2019, just a couple of months after the final The Bachelorette episode had aired. He further breached that contract when he started talking negatively about the show and the production behind it. Since Parker has been ordered to pay the $100,000 in damages, he has not publicly commented on the situation. He has been pretty active on Instagram, sharing stories and pictures to his feed, but there has been no mention whatsoever of the lawsuit, or the show in general.
If Parker does not want to face any more legal trouble with The Bachelorette show, he should pay the production company right away. He needs to stop working out for a minute and send that check over to NZK Productions Inc. as soon as possible.
Source: WKYC Studios