Ashley Salter made quite an impression on viewers as well as the other contestants on The Bachelor this season, especially as she talked on and on about the layers of an onion on the premiere episode. She also struck star Chris Soules as strange when she seemed to be in another world while talking to him during some alone time on the “zombie group date.” Now Salter is back and she seems to be in on the joke as she brings host Chris Harrison a special gift at the taping of The Bachelor: Women Tell All – an onion. Salter even tells Harrison that she has started growing onions since the show.
Harrison spoke with TV Guide and told them that his favorite interview during the “Tell All” special was Salter, explaining:
One of my favorites was with Ashley S. Honestly, it’s like she’s in on the joke, but not completely. She did explain the Mesa Verde thing, but then doesn’t completely explain the Mesa Verde thing. I told her, ‘I don’t know if I’m allowed to do this, but I’m extending an invitation to you right now to be on Bachelor in Paradise.’
Despite Ashley Salter’s strange behavior, host Chris Harrison says that her audition tape was very much normal. There’s even a clip of it shown on the “Tell All” special. What makes things even more interesting is that Salter never really applied to be on the show as she told Northside Woman:
I didn’t audition — I was nominated by a friend a year before they contacted me. I didn’t know my friend had nominated me, so when the show contacted me, I honestly thought it was a joke at first. From there, the interview process included meeting with casting directors and producers.
Salter said she’d watched the show since the first season and the experience of being on it was nothing like she expected.
