Can The Bachelor franchise be separted from the man who created it?

HuffPost

The abuse allegations leveled against The Bachelor and The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss by his estranged wife Laura Kaeppeler Fleiss raises the question of what happens when a show creator is accused of abuse. "Contestants hold no leverage in the world of the show — unless they become leads or winners — and in recent years, contestants have easily been yanked for less serious or substantiated accusations than those facing Fleiss," according to The Huffington Post. "Fleiss, however, is not so easily replaced. He is the creator of the show, the man behind its ideology, production and execution. The franchise is his intellectual baby, and the people who make the show — the producers and editors who are on the ground, doing the real work — are predominantly employed by NZK, his production company."