Sunday, January 4, 2009

Sloppy Seconds (or Gearing Up for the Bachelor)

A fairly crass title, I agree, but given the topic of this post, a most appropriate one. Given that I haven't signed any extravagant, four-year $15.5 million dollar contracts lately, I'm not so worried about it.  I also haven't had a screenplay written about me either, but I digress...

Tomorrow (Monday) night is the season premier of The Bachelor, starring everyone's new favourite dad, Jason Mesnick, and it got me to thinking...whatever happened to the other second place finishers of previous seasons?  Turns out, some of fallen off the face of the earth (or the face of the internet, I guess), some have kept up appearances, and others have thrown themselves whole-heartedly back into the Bach breeding pool, for better or for worse.  So let's have a quick look at ten of them:

10. Tara Huckeby v. Jessica Bowlin for Jesse Palmer
I know, I know, I thought the same thing that you are right now:  Who the hell is Tara Huckey?  For that matter, who the hell is Jessica Bowlin?  We all know (or those who watch football) that Mr. Palmer has landed himself a nice job as a football sportscaster, although he hasn't quite got to the pinstripe tier yet (I'll explain that another time).  But he'll get there.  Tara Huckeby apparently puked in the bushes shortly before getting ditched by JP, but since the show, has been busy 'entertaining', 'making appearances', and starting a 'marketing company'.  Yawn.  I couldn't even find a pic of her on the internet, although in all honesty, I didn't try too hard.

9. Trista Rehn v. Amanda Marsh for Alex Michel
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Confession time: I never watched this season.  Truthfully, I tired to watch it, I really did, but Alex really creeped me out.  Something about him seemed a little too slick.  Let's face it, he's no Ryan Sutter.  Of course, we all know how the wonderful cinderella story ends: with a firefighter-slash-sappy poet, a billion pink roses, Chris-Bot presiding over a wedding (actually he didn't), a sweet home in Colorado, a baby boy, and another one on the way ('It's a girl' quoth People magazine).


8. Kristen Buschbacher v. Jen Schefft for Andrew Firestone
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Ah...everyone's favourite winemaker.  It's hard to imagine a winery and a tire factory coming from the same family, but here we are.  Actually, the Firestones parlayed their tire success into wine making, so a fairly smart move.  We know that Jen Schefft later went on to become a Bachelorette, but Kristen, who worked for the Home Shopping Network during the show's airing, later appeared in a show called 'pieces of a$$'.  I kid you not. If you're too lazy to click on the link the show 'features original monologues which all deal with themes uniquely common to the physically blessed female, from the perks and privileges to the problems and the pressures.  These pieces aim to go beneath the beautiful facade and examine the concept of 'hot chick angst''.  Oh lord, I wish I could say that I made that crap up myself, but I can't.  Did you know that there were themes uniquely common to the physically blessed female?  Fun.



7. Moana Dixon v. Sarah Stone for Travis Stork.
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Why is it that every time I read her name, it reads Mo-Anna?  I'd much rather imagine Mona from Who's the Boss than Mo-Anna Dixon and the train wreck that was the finale to this season.  Of course, Dr. Stork now has a show on daytime television called, brilliantly, The Doctors, and he also wrote a book about dating, but what's up with Moana?  Well, check out her MySpace page. She's the CEO of a company called Soul Movement and Andy Baldwin is one of her top friends.  As a bit of a sidebar, I don't get MySpace.  The crap layouts, the weird quotes, all of it...just don't get it. 

6. Sadie Murray v. Jennifer Wilson for 'Prince' Lorenzo Borghese


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Everyone's favourite virgin.  That's right, I said it.  I liked Sadie, she was a sweet girl, close to her parents, yadda yadda yadda.  I thought she was too good for the Borghese family (Lorenzo makes spa products for dogs), but after the show, she moved to New York and dated the Prince after he and Jennifer Wilson broke up.  






5. Bevin Powers v. Tessa Horst for Andy Baldwin


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I don't remember much of Bevin from the show, but I do remember she stayed pretty quiet during the After the Final Rose episode, and seemed to have maintained a fairly low profile after the show ended, which I can respect.  Probably because Andy Baldwin went on to date Marla Maples.  Yikes.





4. Deanna Pappas v. Jenni Croft for Brad Womack


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Since both girls lost, I wasn't sure who to pick as the Sloppy Second, so they both get the nod.  Lucky them.  Of course, Deanna made another appearance as the Bachelorette, picking Jesse Sizz-nack but of course, we know how that story
ends.  Jenni did just fine after the show, thank you very much, and got engaged to an old flame.  I must say, B-Dub was my favourite.  I miss him.  Sigh.










3. Chelsea Wanstrath v. Shayne Lamas for Matt Grant


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I liked Chelsea, but probably not as much as I liked Shayne (I mean how could you beat the picture of herself she gave to Matt? With a board game recreating all the dates you've gone on?  Puhlease).  Chelsea seemed decent, obviously better off without Matt, and since she left her job as a pharmaceutical sales rep to go on the show, was last seen looking for work somewhere in Santa Barbara.  Fun. I wonder if her appearance on the show made it's way onto her CV...or into job interviews.  'Chelsea, can you describe a time when you realized you had made a mistake and how you handled it?'




2. Charlie Maher v. Ryan Sutter for Trista Rehn


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How could anyone forget Charlie Maher? Well, if you have, let me help jog your memory.  I've recently decided there are roughly two types of guys on the Bach/Bachelorette (I say roughly because it's not clearly black and white, more like a scale of sorts, and of course it's a generalization, so come on people, work with me).  The two types, in the Bach world, are those who you could imagine sitting on the sidelines of a Lakers game with Brad Womack, sharing a beer, and pretending to be oblivious to all the girls checking them out.  These same cats would go out later and easily out-hot every second rate guy in any bar.  Charlie Maher...definitely one of these guys.  Ryan Sutter? Borderline. Jason Mesnick? Not so much. Trista definitely made the right choice - there was no way that Charlie would have tolerated a televised frothy pink, over the top, wedding the way Ryan did.  He also would have never 'entertained' Jesse and DeAnna at their home, doling out weak advice about how to deal with all the fame and attention that results from being on the Bachelorette.  




1. Jason Mesnick v. Jessie Csincsak for Deanna Pappas


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Oh yes, the guy who comes from a family of leap-froggers, who has a son named Ty and lost a high-maintenance, over the top eye blinking media babe to a snowboarder who labelled the cupboards in his house and is probably the only guy over the age of 25 who says 'sick' and actually doesn't get strange looks.  Poor Jason...I wonder how he'll cope with another agonizing sabbatical away from his son.  Maybe Ty will join him during rose ceremonies and help make some decisions.  The one thing we'd better see on this Bach is J-cat's ex-wife.  She'll either be disguised as one of the Bachelorettes (sneaky!) or dress up like Jason's long lost fat cousin, on the show to infiltrate the girls and see what they really talk about. I checked out the new
crop of girls that J-Cat will choose from, and it's hard to say who will win, who might be crazy, who'll get the fantasy suite cards, and what crazy antics Chris-Bot will get up to this time around, but I'm excited.  Enjoy tomorrow night!



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