‘Bachelorette’s’ Ashley Hebert questions Courtney’s ‘Sex and the City’ vows
Producers from ‘The Bachelor’ are on serious damage control when it comes to contestant Courtney Robertson after it became clear that she was the front runner for Ben Flajnik’s heart. Courtney has been portrayed as a master manipulator who is on the show to be the winner and not to find a husband in Ben and as more women tried to bring it to his attention, he seemed to get closer and closer to Courtney.
While host Chris Harrison tries his best to smooth over the viewers disdain for Courtney and build Ben’s reputation back up through interviews with different media outlets, producers have tried to show a different side of Courtney in Monday’s episode with a faux wedding between her and Ben.
When we first see Courtney and Ben exchanging fake wedding vows that they were supposed to write themselves, viewers got a chance to see what they thought was a vulnerable side to Courtney through the words she ‘wrote’ to Ben such as “I am looking for love. Real love. Passionate, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.”
As it turns out the vows were lifted by Courtney from the hit HBO series ‘Sex and the City’ during the series finale when Carrie Bradshaw gives a speech to her boyfriend Alexander Petrovsky about the perfect kind of love that she wants.
Along with most of the viewers at home, former ‘Bachelorette’ Ashley Hebert has also noticed that Courtney is in this for all the wrong reasons and that Ben is falling victim to her charms. She tells E! Online;
“There are some people I can read really well, but I can’t figure her out, I’m trying to give her the benefit of the doubt! But with this ceremony that she puts on for Ben, I’m trying to figure out if she’s just trying to find a sweet way to tell him that she loves him, or if she’s just trying to move on to the next round. Is this forced? Is this real? I’m having a really hard time figuring it out. You can see it in his face, ‘This is it.’ And he believes her. If I were the other girls and I was watching this back, I would be so upset. He pretty much got married to Courtney, pretty much had sex with her when they went skinny-dipping. You know, it’s like, what a rip-off for the other girls. Especially if he doesn’t end up with Courtney!”
As most of the fans watching from home, Hebert is certain he is going to choose Courtney as his wife as most of us have figured out from the beginning of the season. She said;
“After knowing Ben, I think he will choose Courtney.”
Do you think Ben will choose Courtney? Have you given up on this season of ‘The Bachelor’? Do you think that Ben was a good choice to be the Bachelor? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
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Brittany
February 23, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
Give me a break Cindy. If you have watched it at all, you know that the Bachelor/ette does not always fall for the troublemaker. Otherwise Michelle Money and Erica Rose would have won. And Nicki’s house in the hometown date was a “real house.” No lavish home there. Enough conspiracy theory. :)
That said, I despise this season of the Bachelor. Ben Flajnik is the WORST. His hair sucks, and if he was thinking with his heart or head instead of his “little head” (if you catch my drift)… the whole situation would be much more tolerable for viewers. The producers were doing major damage control for this last episode. Since the skinny dipping episode, I think everyone with half a brain has been able to tell who Ben’s ending up with. And I think we all know this one isn’t ending with a Bachelor fairy tale. But none of them do, really. :)
Cindy
February 23, 2012 @ 2:13 am
It was totally obvious that she didn’t write the vows herself. When it showed them writing their vows, it showed Courtney copying from a piece of paper. She only wrote a few lines down and then decided to read from the clipped paper she had. Then she read it without any feeling at all, and looked like she was embarrassed by it. I have extreme doubts that this show is even real. I’m beginning to think it is phony with a bunch of paid actors. Why is it that on every hometown date, all the parents are rich, with lavish houses, farms, and property? Are they trying to tell us that contestants are ruled out if they live like real people in real homes?
I believe that the entire show is staged and they always have the bachelor/bachelorette fall for the trouble maker for ratings. They write the show this way to give it the twist they need to capture viewer attention.
Renee
February 22, 2012 @ 4:16 pm
I wish I never started watching it it is the worst one out of all of them . He don’t give a hoot about love. He just wants part of that model in the long round he will go for love later he turn out to be a fake disappoint