Last week the council announced it planned to give Bacon its top job – the previous CEO Tom McCabe had quit shortly after Reform took power in May.
Founder of the care firm Apple Homecare and owner of a bed and breakfast in Norwich, Bacon won the Channel 4 reality show Four in a Bed last year.
Alongside his business ventures, he spent 19 years as chairman of the Norfolk Independent Care Association, which supports more than 600 organisations and 11,000 staff in the social care industry.
The 63-year-old has also sat on the Norfolk and Waveney Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, a network of local NHS organisations and councils.
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However, opposition councillors attacked the decision with Green group leader Maxine Webb describing the recruitment process as “rushed” as Bacon underwent just a one-hour-long interview with councillors.
She was part of the interview panel alongside Bick, senior Reform councillor Robin Hunter-Clarke, Liberal Democrat group leader Brian Watkins and Great Yarmouth First’s Jon Wedon.
Great Yarmouth First has backed Reform in many of its decisions, and according to council documents, external a “majority” of the panel supported appointing Bacon.
“Some other less executive positions of this council consisted of seven different rounds of interviews,” Webb said.