star Gil Ramirez, who received a rose from star during this week’s Sept. 18 season premiere, had details from his past come to light on Friday. The 60-year-old educator from Mission Viejo, California, had a temporary domestic violence restraining order filed against him three months ago from an ex-girlfriend over allegations of stalking, .
The woman, who claimed to have been dating Ramirez, said, “he made repeated unwanted contact with me, family members and friends” and that he “showed up at places I frequent to confront me on a daily basis.” noted that the court filing was dated June 11, which can confirm was just days before production started on the hit ABC reality dating competition. and the are senior spinoffs from flagship series and A July 2 hearing was then postponed, reported, because Ramirez was unable to be served — presumably, because he was already at the mansion in Agoura Hills, California, filming .
At a later hearing date on July 24, the TRO was then dropped and dismissed for “lack of prosecution for lack of service.” Because of the timing, a source close to the show’s production tells that the filing “occurred in the brief period between completion of [the show’s] thorough background investigation and exhaustive vetting process, and the beginning of production.” Now that this information has come to light, the source says ABC and producers Warner Horizon have “further edited his already limited screen time and minimized him in promo.