On to a few big stories regarding the “Bachelorette” this week. The biggest thing being more revelations about Arie. I tweeted yesterday that I was come today with a “This is Your Life” Arie Luyendyk perspective, but after thinking it over, I’m gonna wait. Sorry. I’m waiting because none of it will be all that relevant if Emily doesn’t pick him. If Emily picks him, then it’s stuff she definitely needs to know. If she doesn’t pick him, I’m sure it’s stuff you’ll read about in the tabloids. Regardless, Mike Fleiss’ quote in that interview about only casting people who are sincere and not looking to further their career and be on TV is looking more and more laughable with them casting Arie this season. What a joke. If Emily chooses Arie, then you will hear everything you need to know – and then some. If not, then we can all have a good laugh at his expense. I hope none of you have gotten your hopes up for this guy. What a complete fraud. For Emily’s sake, better hope she doesn’t fall for it, because if you thought Courtney was on the cover of too many tabloids during Ben’s season, just wait til you see Arie’s mug in every grocery store line for a month.
In case you weren’t following me on Twitter, Facebook, or my Facebook fan page, I’m sure you’ve seen by now that ABC released the photos and bios of all 25 of Emily’s guys. I had given you 17 of them, and looking back to the last 3 seasons, I had 19 of Ashley’s guys, and 17 of Brad’s girls. Just one of these seasons I’d like to have all of them nailed before ABC releases them. That’d be fun. Anyway, I was going to do my first impression of each guys picture and stuff they said in their bio, but since I’ve already given my thoughts on a lot of them when I’ve been spoiling over the past 2 months, I figured it’d get repetitive. You wanna see a few of those, you can go to JensReality.com, written by video blog screener Jen Marcus, or, a lot of former contestants are tweeting and blogging about it as well that I’m sure you’ll find funny. And the only reason I put Jef’s photo on the front page is because that mop on his head looks utterly ridiculous. Looks like he should be fronting some band in the 60′s with a giant microphone in his hand as women in long skirts scream at him. Easily the worst hairdo anyone has ever had on this show. Here’s a link to all the guys photos and bios:
Since it was released, the eight guys who I didn’t have confirmed can easily be found by just doing a Google search with their first name, occupation, and city or state. But since none of the eight really have much importance to this season, I didn’t care enough to go searching myself. My goal is to find as many as I can before ABC releases them. If anyone I don’t find is important to the season, then I’ll fill you in with their bios and photos. But none of these eight really are all that important and get that far, so I’m not interested in finding out more. I think WetPaint has a few that they found, so check out their site if you’re really dying to know the last names of people who have no impact on the season.
However, like clockwork, for the 24th consecutive season, once the pictures were released the universal “These people are ugly,” “Nice background,” “Are these their high school pictures?,” and “These are the best people they could find?” comments were flowing like never before. It’s amazing, no matter how they shoot those photos for the show, no matter how these people look, the reaction is ALWAYS negative. Then 8 million people are glued to their TV sets every Monday night enamored with the show. Never fails. Look, the photos suck EVERY season. This is nothing new. I’ve yet to see the photos released on any season, and the overwhelming majority reaction is, “Wow, what a great group of guys/girls. Best looking they’ve ever had.” People, they’re not casting the 25 best looking guys for Emily. Hell, they’re not even casting the 25 most compatible people for Emily. It’s a television show. They are casting characters. And every season, they’ll roll out 25 new characters for you to talk about every Tuesday morning with your friends. Lets calm down about the ABC photos since by the end of the first episode, you’ll be wanting to take your panties off for half of them. Unreal how it’s the same…thing…every…season. Just like this show.
Now it’s time to talk about my good buddy, Mike Fleiss, who decided to do an interview with a website that I’d never heard of before Monday. But plenty of you sent me the link, so anything that comes out of Fleiss’ mouth I’m interested to read, and boy, did he ever have some beauties in these answers. The full interview is on AftertheRose.com, but I want to touch on the parts that truly made me laugh.
Here’s the part where he referenced me without actually referencing me:
Q: Obviously since the first season of “The Bachelor,” things have changed. Are there any parts of the first few seasons that you wish you could go back to or re-do? The popularity in the beginning wasn’t the same as it is now, does that affect it too?
Fleiss: The popularity of the show has been there for a long time, but the biggest difference in the show is when they first started doing the show, there was no social media. Very few people had cameras in their phones back then and they were able to fly under the radar a little bit better. Now, no matter where we go, in Europe or the South Pacific, there are people who recognize the show, and take pictures, tweet and write in Facebook about what they are seeing. It is therefore really hard to keep the whole thing secretive. The fact that people take pictures and whatever is a small problem compared to some of the spoiler websites that are really trying to damage the show.
You are not talking about the average message boards like After the Rose and others?
Yea, I think you know which site I am talking about. I won’t dignify that site by referring to it specifically, but I think most Bachelor fans know what I am referring to. In terms of regrets from past seasons, I always regret not making Charlie Maher (runner-up from the first season of “Bachelorette”) the bachelor, because back then we felt that introducing a new bachelor for the show was going to be a big deal, but now I realize that it is better to feature a bachelor or bachelorette that the audience is already invested in.
Awwwwww, thanks buddy. So which is it? You think I’m a doofus and no one cares about my site, or like you just stated, “I think most Bachelor fans know what I’m referring to.” Thanks for the plug. You’re the best. Glad I’ve become someone you didn’t care about to someone you’re wasting time suing in two short years. Because we all know you sue people that don’t matter. Uh huh.
This might be the biggest line of bullsh** this guy has ever said….
…No, our casting is really based on one principle; we are looking for sincere people that are really looking for love. That is the beginning, middle and end of it all. That is what we really want. We try to weed out people who want to further their professional ambitions or are there for the excitement of being on television, and for the most part, we do a pretty good job of that.
Wow. Sincere people looking for love? So all 500 people who’ve been cast were 100% there for love and finding their future spouse? Oh ok. And if you’re claiming that you’re weeding out people who want to further their career or just want to be on TV, you’re doing an incredibly horrible job of it. Please. Does this guy actually believe what comes out of his own mouth?
And this was easily the best thing he said all interview…
I think the show is going to be on for a very long time. It is still very popular, it is still a top rated show and is still one of the top five shows among female viewers, and it still gets more magazine covers than any show on television. I think the show is going to be around for a good long time.
That’s awesome. Music to my ears. The longer the show is around, the more I can continue to spoil it before it airs. Keep em’ coming, because I don’t plan on going anywhere.
@missannmcd —
I USED to love reading Steve’s spoilers and I thought Steve was high-larious (most of the time).
Then he started becoming offensively arrogant when he belittled his readers on a regular basis…..patted himself on the back to excess….claimed he NEVER reads these comments…..and finally, stuck his hand out and had the nerve to ask for money.
It has nothing to do with how I feel about myself. I like myself quite a bit, thank you.
I feel that this column of Steve’s has become some way for him to finally rat out the popular kids (i.e., Mike Fleiss). Seems like unfinished business to me….and please tell me what woman would find his whole schtick appealing?
RS tweeted that there will be no column today. Boooo
I wish he would at least just tell us if the BacheSpoilerFans spoilers are accurate or not.
Just looked at a different spoiler site… Said that the final 2 are Jef and Sean.
THERE!!!! How do you like THAT ABC?!
Hi JovisMom, I read that too, and they’re even saying now that Jef is the F1. Apparently that site has been wrong the past two seasons though. I’m not believing a thing until RS confirms it.
Hi CaliGirl – couple of points for you: the BacheSpoilerFans site is a site of sleuthers, and sometimes they get wrong info, but ALWAYS flagged as potential. The info right now is flagged as 100% and we believe it. RS has been wrong several times in the last few years (Ali ending up alone, Brad picking Chantal, etc…) and the sleuthers on that site HAVE corrected him before he did. Steve does not like to be schooled and hits back with nastiness. You want to believe him over a lady who does not try and make money and fame from her info… you do that… We’ll see who’s right
Enjoy the show either way, it looks like it is going to be a cracker!!!!
Sophienettejc, I am just curious as to why ZERO media outlets have posted what was said on those boards, about Jef being F1. I am starting to wonder if the theory that Fleiss and Co. intentionally leaked the info so that RS wouldn’t have it first is true. Who knows. Regardless, Steve never said in his video blog last night that the spoilers/sleuthers are wrong. He just said he doesn’t know. He also said if they happen to be right and if they had the info before him, then so be it.
I know that Steve says that the law suite is baseless and he says it will not stop him from spoiling the show. However lack of spoilers that he has posted about Emily makes it obvious that he has been told by his lawyer that he should not be posting anything more about her season. Usually a couple weeks before the finale Steve has the episode by episode spoilers posted. So the fact that he has not done so and is not posting anything this week shows that this lawsuit is actually a very serious matter. If it was not then Steve would have everything up on this site.
Someone has leaked out episode 1 behind the scenes on youtube yesterday. obviously, something is going on between the show and some people. here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnHMmGeOg8
I never post on blogs – but I just have to say, I’m dissappointed in how arrogrant you have become Reality Steve. I used to be a fan, but I think your growing readership has really got to your head. Your officially down a reader. You are certainly not the only person who breaks the Bachelor news anymore.
I am not buying the other spoiler site info. My $$ is on Arie for 1 massive reason–dude is from a racing family. Know your Emily history people. Her baby daddy was a Hendricks, also a racing family. Stock car variety. Arie’s dad won Indy won than once, so an open wheel racing family.
Emily loves her car drives, the family $$$, and all that.
It;s gonna be Arie.
I’ve been reading and watching all along Steve, but never commented again. I was tempted during Brads time with Emily but kept it to myself.
I do not have a clue as to why ABC would choose Emily to be the bachelorette. I was born and raised her in Charlotte and the things that have been in the Charlotte Observer about her and her intrusion of the Hendricks family tell the real story of her. Hendricks isn’t her baby daddy (hate that silly term) and my gosh, the family had to get a restraining order to keep that crazy girl away form them. Yep, she like the racing lifestyle and the money for sure.
I’m not related to either the Hendricks family or Emily and I do not know any of them personally. But I know what has been public record for many years and ABC is clearly getting desperate this time. (Well, lots of times) I really won’t be watching this season because sooner or later the crazy girl will make the news here again. I feel sad for all the viewers who buy into this because it’s not a fairy tale, it’s a nightmare.
I agree….and Im sure all F3 stayed there during filming regardless of who the F1 was. That would explain why F3 and F2 had not come home since the final RC. ABC is smart and know there will be spoilers out there..Maybe they are getting smart now. If I were ABC Id send all staff home after hometowns and bring a new crew in that way understanding who is leaking information becomes easier.