Ah, summer. Mimosas, long nights, hot days and lots of guilty pleasure TV! I am constantly trying to prove to people that I don’t watch a lot of reality TV (in actual show numbers, if you go by how many hours I watch Idol a year then I totally do) and this blog post is not going to help to debunk this rumor. But I have to admit, one of my favourite guilty pleasure shows is the addictive ABC reality show The Bachelorette. I have had a conflicted past with the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise. I watched season one intently and then didn’t follow the series for many years, until the show went to New Zealand in Jason’s season and I was watching it for work purposes (honestly!). But then when Jillian became the Bachelorette a few weeks after the Bachelor ended, I didn’t stop watching. And I’ve pretty much watched every season since.
The Bachelorette is entertaining on many levels, but what I find most interesting is that 90% of the guys on the show seem to be more into the competition aspect than the falling in love aspect. Which is what the whole premise of the show is! Does this surprise me? No, but I find it interesting to watch. This season the Bachelorette is Ashley Herbert, the second runner up on Brad Womack’s season of the Bachelorette. What’s different about Ashley to the many Bachelorette’s before her is that she seems to have zero self confidence. Which I totally don’t understand! She’s slim, cute and almost a dentist. She has a lot going for her, but she’s always going on about how she can’t believe all these amazing guys want to date her! He more she says this, the more I wonder the same thing… The biggest scandal for this season has been bad boy Bentley, who told Ashley he was leaving the show because he missed his daughter, but really it was because he wasn’t attracted to her and he wished the Bachelorette was hottie Emily (also from Brad Womack’s season). It took Ashley several weeks to get over him leaving, which was hard to watch, if only she had known what Bentley had been saying about her to the cameras!
This season the show is also traveling around the world, they’ve already been to Thailand and Hong Kong and more exotic locales await us! If you too are addicted to the Bachelorette you’ll know that it airs on Mondays, 8pm on ABC. Or you can catch up on ABC.com
