‘The Bachelorette: Men Tell All’: Meatball Reveals Why He Tackled Billy Eichner

Meatball didn’t plan to deal with Billy Eichner. In perhaps the most shocking depiction of The Bachelorette’s “Men Tell All” episode, Eichner provided Meatball with a holder of marinara sauce, a callback to the contender’s smart second sooner this season, and Meatball went ahead and down, cover himself in the sauce, and tackle the comedian.

“I was going in for a hug and a short time later I expect I slipped, and he got me,” Meatball, whose veritable name is James Clarke, told ET after the event. “I was especially disturbed for that. We embraced after that. It was agreeable. He was feeling a debt of gratitude. He got a kick consequently.”

Concerning where he stays with Eichner, who was accessible to propel his approaching flick, Bros, Meatball joked, “We are brothers.”

“I never figured I would pour meatball sauce all over myself again, yet nobody can truly determine what will happen,” he joked. “This is Bachelor Nation here.”

The rest of the cast was likewise stunned by the event, perhaps no one more so than have Jesse Palmer.

“I have PTSD while you bring that up… Those are minutes for me that I just can’t unsee,” Jesse told ET. “The way that Meatball, A, trusts it’s reliably savvy to sprinkle himself in marinara sauce, but by then, B, dealing with Billy Eichner, a VIP, on the set, solicited in marinara sauce, those are questions that I’ll probably never track down the answers for.”

Not the least bit like the show’s host, its driving ladies were unsurprised by the presentation.

“I am so not dumbfounded that Meatball did this,” Rachel Recchia said. “I really believe that, all through this season, people got to see the entertaining side of Meatball, the serious side of Meatball. He’s essentially an especially inconceivable person. Wasn’t expecting the tackle, yet was staying nearby for it.”

“[I was] not dumbfounded using any and all means,” Gabby Windey agreed. “He guaranteed it. We were staying nearby for it. I needed to see it. I can barely hold on to watch it back again and again.”

The tackle did quickly give Gabby chance to pause and think, in any case, as the ICU sustain joked to ET, “I was fearful I’d have to dig significant back into my comprehension of how to be a clinical overseer.”

Meanwhile, Bachelor Nation’s Wells Adams was astonished by Meatball’s “striking move,” while Tyler Norris was essentially glad that, paying little mind to being in the “line of fire,” he “didn’t get found out with any sauce.”

“If you see Meatball, there’s a fair open door he has an Italian sauce on his body and areolas, and I’d bet cash on it,” Logan Palmer joked to ET. “Tonight I would have won that cash since he was sauced up.”

#TheBachelorette: James Clarke (aka Meatball) reacts to Hayden not showing up for #MenTellAll: “It just kinda speaks to his character.”

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“It was basically Meatball being Meatball,” Mario Vassall agreed. “He was a great deal of on brand.”

Brothers will hit theaters Sept. 30.

The Bachelorette airs Mondays on ABC. Remain mindful of the striking season by following ET’s consideration of the series.