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Former “Bachelorette” contestant Luke Parker has been ordered to pay $100,000 to NZK Productions Inc. for breaching his contract with the hit ABC show, according to court documents obtained by Page Six on Wednesday.
Parker, 25, was a contestant on Hannah Brown’s season, which aired in 2019.
The production company has accused Parker of making media appearances without their consent — a point he allegedly agreed to in his contract. He was fined $25,000 for each appearance.
The court docs allege that Parker first signed a contract with the company in January 2019, which stated that he would not “make any media appearances [from January 2019] through one year after the date of the initial broadcast of the final episode of the series.”
Season 15 of “The Bachelorette” stopped airing on July 30, 2019, but the company claimed that he made four appearances in September and October 2019, according to the docs.
The contract also prohibited him from sharing “any information or events he witnessed or learned as a contestant … or make any negative or disparaging remarks about the series and/or its principals, employees or affiliates, at any time” — a provision the company claims he also violated, court docs show.
The production company first filed a suit against him in Los Angeles County Superior Court in June to force him to pay up.
A rep for Parker didn’t immediately return our request for comment. Reps for ABC did not immediately get back to us.