The Bachelor Stars Respond to Draftkings Collusion Allegations
Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert have come forward Monday night to address allegations that the two former “Bachelor” contestants colluded and won a million dollars in a Draftings Fantasy Football contest over the weekend.
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“We respect that DraftKings feels they must do their due diligence in regard to Jade winning their $1 million prize for the fantasy contest for the NFL’s wild-card round this weekend,” the Bachelor in Paradise couple said in a statement to Us Weekly. “Though we must ponder, would the questions, accusations and curiosity about this win be the same if the winner had been male and someone who wasn’t already in the public eye? It is incredibly important for us to establish that Jade’s win is nothing more than pure luck and we are confident that DraftKings will determine the same.”
David Purdum of ESPN reported:
Fantasy insiders, who analyzed the Tolberts' entries, point to a lack of duplicated lineups and alleged that the couple had strategized together to enter unique rosters as a way to circumvent the maximum entries allowed. Out of the Tolberts' 300 lineups, 298 were unique.
"We take the integrity and fairness of our contests very seriously and are looking into this matter," a DraftKings spokesperson said in a statement.
Draftkings had yet to pay out the prize as of Monday night.
"We each put in our separate players, in our separate accounts and rooted for own players," Tanner told ESPN in a phone interview earlier Monday. "No one has ever said a peep about us when we lost for 17 straight weeks. Then, of course, somehow Jade picked the right lineup, got the million and the spotlight got shone on it. And people, especially since she's a woman, assume that I do it all for her. If I had won, I bet no one would've raised a flag."
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