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.