2008 Woodie Awards
Schefft returns for "rematch" in The Bachelorette
Lauren Ruffing
Issue date: 2/5/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
I'm hooked. Curiously. Desperately. Pathetically? This hopelessly hopeless romantic joins, and sometimes even leads, the addicting bandwagon of reality television every Monday night at 9:00 p.m. to watch the 25, 15, 8, and now six eligible bachelors of the third installment of The Bachelorette sweet talk themselves into the heart of the girl next door.
I'm not the only adoring fan either. Teachers' rooms (at least at Wachusett Regional High School) swarm with the ever-changing female opinion of Mr. Right. JP's too young. Wendell's too goofy. Jerry's too smooth. Ben? "Ah, I just don't see them together," one teacher commented last week. We feel like we know these guys. We're looking out for Jen, because if we can't live the fairytale, we might as well watch someone else live it.
But why would Schefft, a 28-year-old Mentor, Ohio native, return to the trials, tribulations, and tears of the hastily paced ABC dating scene? In 2003, Bachelor Andrew Firestone proposed to Schefft in a season finale that left women around the country, both single and married, both sappy and cynical, cheering for the triumph of the cute and genuinely nice over the beautiful, but bitchy (another word?). But of course. After an eight month courting session, the two parted ways. So why is she back? Hasn't she learned her lesson?
I guess not.
For round number two Schefft's less naïve. She's got her guard up, but maybe too high up. There's virtuously something wrong with every suitor, suitors she, from the initial stages, helped pick out. They don't try hard enough. They try too hard. They don't share enough. They share too much.
And she sure doesn't hide her facial expressions. The French Fabrice, a 28-year-old real estate investor from New York, no doubt comes on too strong too fast, but was the wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression of disgust directly into the camera amidst embrace really necessary? After he broke down, spewing past heartache, she revealed to the audience, "I just want to have fun. I don't want to get so heavy and so deep."
I'm not the only adoring fan either. Teachers' rooms (at least at Wachusett Regional High School) swarm with the ever-changing female opinion of Mr. Right. JP's too young. Wendell's too goofy. Jerry's too smooth. Ben? "Ah, I just don't see them together," one teacher commented last week. We feel like we know these guys. We're looking out for Jen, because if we can't live the fairytale, we might as well watch someone else live it.
But why would Schefft, a 28-year-old Mentor, Ohio native, return to the trials, tribulations, and tears of the hastily paced ABC dating scene? In 2003, Bachelor Andrew Firestone proposed to Schefft in a season finale that left women around the country, both single and married, both sappy and cynical, cheering for the triumph of the cute and genuinely nice over the beautiful, but bitchy (another word?). But of course. After an eight month courting session, the two parted ways. So why is she back? Hasn't she learned her lesson?
I guess not.
For round number two Schefft's less naïve. She's got her guard up, but maybe too high up. There's virtuously something wrong with every suitor, suitors she, from the initial stages, helped pick out. They don't try hard enough. They try too hard. They don't share enough. They share too much.
And she sure doesn't hide her facial expressions. The French Fabrice, a 28-year-old real estate investor from New York, no doubt comes on too strong too fast, but was the wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression of disgust directly into the camera amidst embrace really necessary? After he broke down, spewing past heartache, she revealed to the audience, "I just want to have fun. I don't want to get so heavy and so deep."