“Bachelor in Paradise” alum Chris Bukowski was taken aback when he learned that “Bachelor” star Joey Graziadei mistook Gypsy Rose Blanchard for Ruth Bader Ginzburg.
“That’s a pretty big mixup,” the reality star, 37, told Pvnew exclusively while at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas hotel ahead of Super Bowl 2024.
However, Bukowski sympathized with Graziadei, 28, who has been doing a lot of press as the lead of the hit ABC dating show.
“The guy’s probably being asked so many questions, like, you can’t be on all the time,” the “Bachelor Pad” alum added.
Graziadei made the shocking mistake earlier this week when playing a Betches game called “How online Are You?” in which he had to guess the names of famous people.
“Is it Ruth?” the reality star asked when he was shown a picture of Blanchard, 32, who notoriously spent eight years in prison for the death of her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who suffered from Munchausen by proxy.
Graziade added at the time, “It’s Jinsburg or Ginsburg or something like that. Am I wrong?,” recalling the name of the late Supreme Court justice instead.
He then noted, “I know that she had something happen where she went to jail because of her mom.”
When Graziade was called out online for the flub, he wrote via Instagram, “She looked like a Ruth and the only Ruth I had in my head was the late Supreme Court justice. I’ll never live this one down
