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Magi Was Excited to Be the First Ethiopian on ‘The Bachelor.’ Then Came the Tigray Conflict (marieclaire.com)

March 24, 2021 3:07 AM / Leave a comment

Magi Was Excited to Be the First Ethiopian on ‘The Bachelor.’ Then Came the Tigray Conflict

Her fellow contestants rallied around her during ethnic cleansing in her Ethiopian home.

By Emily H. Johnson

matt james and magi tareke on the bachelor abc tv show and tareke at united nations protest about tigray

CRAIG SJODIN VIA GETTY IMAGES + COURTESY OF MAGI TAREKE + COURTESY OF EMILY H. JOHNSON

On November 3, 2020, as the United States was preoccupied with the presidential election, Mearg “Magi” Tareke had just returned home to Washington, D.C. from the Pennsylvania resort where she had been filming season 25 of The Bachelor.

Excited to tell her mother about her experience as the first Ethiopian contestant ever to appear on ABC’s blockbuster reality dating show, Tareke picked up the phone but couldn’t get through. It was her first clue something was wrong back home in Tigray.