ABC's hit reality shows "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" are facing a lawsuit for racial discrimination, according to a report.

Two football players Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson, both African American, will sue the producers of the shows contending that they have never featured a single person of color as the Bachelor or Bachelorette, The Hollywood Reporter notes.

The players auditioned for "The Bachelor" in Nashville and believe they were turned away from the normal audition process due to their race.

The suit would address an issue that has been criticized for a long time.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2011, Mike Fleiss, The Bachelor's executive producer answered if the show would ever feature a non-white person:

"We really tried, but sometimes we feel guilty of tokenism. Oh, we have to wedge African-American chicks in there! We always want to cast for ethnic diversity, it’s just that for whatever reason, they don’t come forward. I wish they would," he told the magazine.

But, could the lawsuit be beneficial for the dating shows?

Fleiss has said in the past, that every reality show needs a "dose of controversy" to keep going.

"I think you need a little bit of controversy to make any show go," he told Forbes in 2009. "Look at Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian--where would those girls be without their sex tapes? The shows that I've had that have been successful have always had a solid dose of controversy."