the bachelorette

I am sucked in. Yes, The Bachelorette and southern belle Emily Maynard have reeled me in, along with some of the bachelors.

Unlike other Bachelor and Bachelorette shows, this one is pretty down to earth – much like Emily herself, who has a daughter, Rickie. Not only is Emily on the search for love, she’s also looking for the right man to be a father to her little girl.

Emily is a beautiful, gracious, down to earth, confident yet vulnerable woman and that southern drawl is ;

Emily and Chris had their one-on-one date and danced in an empty parking lot where country star Luke Bryan performed just for them. Despite his serial-killer eyes, Chris impressed Emily and got a rose.

On the group date, Emily put the guys to the test by introducing them to her girlfriends. One of Emily’s friends says Sean is “the genetic gift to the world.”

Ryan shows his true colours when he tells Emily and friends that he’d still love her if she got fat, he just might love ON her as much. Wow! She should have just sent him home right there!

Who impressed the most? Sean and Doug scored major points after this group date, in which the men put on their potential daddy hats when playing with a bunch of kids at the park.

Race car driver Arie scored the second one-on-one date with Emily – in Dollywood! Dolly Parton herself shows up to give the couple a private concert and Emily some advice.

After Arie reveals he lived with a woman with two kids, he seems like the perfect match. He seems to know how to kiss too!

Kalon should have been sent packing after his condescending pompous remarks. Alessandro is sent packing because he called having an instant family a “compromise”. Ricki sends Tony home to be with his son. Stevie also goes home after he fails to win a rose.

What did you think of Monday night’s episode?

Emily Maynard is the next new Bachelorette and she is nervous as hell!

Shooting for the new season of The Bachelorette begins next month. But Maynard, a single mom of one, is getting cold feet.

“It really hasn’t hit me, what I’ve signed on to do,” Maynard, 25, told People. “I’m scared to death.”

So why is she going to do it? She shied away from the limelight when she was dating the Bachelor’s Brad Womack. She seemed to dislike the tabloids after the show ended and she and Brad were engaged, and then even more so when their engagement ended.

Maynard had said she had no intentions of ever being the next Bachelorette.

Well that didn’t last long!

“I genuinely meant that,” Maynard says. “I feel like the biggest hypocrite because I said that and now I’m doing it.”

So what changed her mind?

“I know it can work,” Maynard says. “I fell in love the first time and no, we didn’t end up getting married, but in the end just falling in love, for me, is a success.”

This time, rather than filming the show in Los Angeles, the new bachelorette will stay in Charlotte, N.C., where she lives with her six-year-old daughter, Ricki.

When the show travels to other locations, Ricki will also tag along. But will she be meeting with any of the bachelors?

“She’s not going to be involved in a lot of filming and certainly not meeting the guys,” Maynard says. “But she’s really excited to go on vacation with Mommy.”

Why not just go out on a normal date with a guy from her town? Wouldn’t that be the best thing to do for her daughter’s sake? One day she will be able to watch the footage from the show… and see her mom share intimate moments with quite a few men. Creepy?

“My schedule is very different than a normal single guy’s schedule. I can’t go out every night of the week,” she says.

“They just kind of fizz out before they ever have a chance to become anything. I have to take things slowly because I have a daughter, so that makes it really hard.”

And dating publicly on television will be much easier.

When will The Bachelorette start? This summer.

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