Chris Harrison does not give up on the ‘Bachelor’ franchise despite moving to Texas

Chris Harrison will be on your TV sets in the near future, featuring ‘Bachelor’ – he is not going anywhere, despite a move he is making for Texas.

Rumors swirled this weekend amid news that the longtime ‘Bachelor’ host was packing up and moving to Barton Creek – just outside Austin – with his girlfriend, Lauren Zima. People heard it and thought … the guy could be leaving his role with the franchise forever.

This is not the case – production sources with direct knowledge tell us that he is NOT leaving the show … he is simply moving out, partly because of a recent partnership he closed with a local brewery. He is also from Texas – once from Dallas – but when it comes to work … we have been told that he will be traveling daily.

NBD really, tons of stars do that today … including a Ryan Seacrest, who practically lives bicastal now because of his NYC show as a host on ‘Ryan & Kelly’, along with his ‘American Idol’.

Another reason why people thought he was hanging up his tux is because he was away for 2 weeks and JoJo Fletcher took over as host. We were told that he was absent because he took his son to college – in Texas – and had to be quarantined for 2 weeks before returning to the set.