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I agree that Lonnie is a nice guy from what I've seen of him, and I've never had any personal problem with him - which is why I didn't want to put his name out there until others discovered it. I do know that he's been dating someone else and probably did not want to be involved in this show, but I do find him writing the wedding song with her suspicious - not in that I thnk that Jamie's still been romantically involved with him while on the show, but as more evidence that Jamie was never serious about this whole thing from the beginning.

The ex is indeed Lonnie. I have avoided saying his name so far because it seemed that he had refrained from involving himself in this show this far and I didn't want to put his business out there. But I figured it was only a matter of time before someone was able to dig it up. That plus apparently he'll be on the episode next week... And yeah, the fact that he wrote her wedding song for this show not long after she had broken up with him has had my eyebrows raised over the legitimacy of this "marriage" from the beginning.

Happy to share. Her Ex has an established career, is good at what he does and has had some major successes as of late. His career also puts him in the public eye, not to the point where he is a household name but there are people in certain circles who know him. I don't believe he is wealthy by any means but from what I've seen he is financially secure. I believe his career and financial stability and older age were absolutely factors in her attraction to him. Early on I sensed a father figure thing going on. Not sure about the tests to find her father - all I know is she's never known who he is.

The Ex is most certainly real, and she definitely did/does consider him to be her best friend. However, I have my doubts as to whether those feelings were/are reciprocated.

No problem! As long as I've known her she's been this way. She simply has no idea how to relate to people. It's not just romantic relationships either, it's all relationships.

He isn't. But he is currently in a relationship.

Can't really remember he names of the other shows she was trying to get on, I think they were all smaller than the Bachelor or new shows that hadn't been pitched to networks yet. But she was trying to get on stuff for a while. Ex lives in central NY near where she grew up. She'd been going out there to visit him regularly right up until going on MAFS.

She is a very fake person both on and off the show. As long as I've known her, her motivation has been fame. She wanted to be on TV, to be in the spotlight. She'd been trying to get on reality shows for quite a while before getting on the Bachelor. And everything about her on that show was disingenuous - she had no interest in Ben Flajnik, she was still in her relationship with The Ex while she was on it, she just wanted to be on TV. The reason she was so infamously awkward with Ben is because she was awful at feigning any kind of attraction to him. Bachelor Pad may have been a slightly different story and she made a fool of herself on that for different reasons, but she came right back from it and picked up her relationship with Ex where it left off. She was also using these shows to try to make him jealous, as someone eluded to earlier. So yeah, I have no reason to believe she is being real on this show, at least as far as her attraction to Doug is concerned. From the beginning I said this is just another show for her to be on to keep herself in the public eye. I do think that her feelings for Ex are genuine, that's one of the few things I will say that I think she is being real about. But I don't think those feelings were ever fully reciprocated...and now she may simply be using him as a way to get out of this "marriage".

You are right on the money. Late 40s.

I will say that I never about about anything in the way of abuse from him, when they were together she seemed to be happy. Also he has a career and is good at what he does, so he is not the deadbeat loser type that Jamie previously claimed that all her ex-boyfriends were. However, I will also say that he wasn't exactly sitting around twiddling his thumbs waiting for her while she was on Bachelor/Bachelor Pad if you get what I mean.

It was NOT all prior to 2012. The period between her going on the Bachelor and going on MAFS is included in those four years - though she obviously won't admit this particular detail in front of the cameras.

She was awkward with Ben Flajnik for the same reason that she is awkward with Doug now - she was/is not attracted to either one of them. She was with her Ex when she was on The Bachelor and he is still in the picture now.

Yes. I have suspected all long that this was not real and the Ex was still in the picture.

I know Jamie and know the Ex she is referring to. There is nothing mysterious about this guy for those of us who know her, I knew all too well who she was talking about even before more info was revealed in this episode. The fact is that she did not break up with him when she went on the bachelor - she came right back from the show and resumed their relationship, and this continued through Bachelor Pad and pretty much right up until she auditioned for MAFS. So that four years she'd been with him includes all of her time in reality TV pre-MAFS. I actually remember hearing that she was going to be on MAFS and found it incredibly strange seeing as how the last I had heard, she was still hung up on this guy. So needless to say I have had my doubts about the legitimacy of this "marriage" from the beginning. The fact that this man is now re-entering the picture only adds to my suspicions.