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Do we know Whitney can't dance? Most contestants seem to be able to perform on DWTS without being attracted to their dancing partners, right?

Guess you're going to have to find a new zumba teacher, Brett.

Someone as brilliant as Kelsey let herself get taken in by a fake reality show and even signed documents allowing them to portray her any way they wanted? How is that even possible?

So now Judge Juliana is related to one pro and one star. She really should recuse herself from this show.

Becca (adore her--even though DH would leave me for her in a NY minute) made me think of another book, "He's Not That into You." In this case, she was not into him romantically. Doubt she would have accepted a proposal.

At least more time than the TB editing showed us....

+1. Last night I turned to Mr MML and asked how did we not know what an amazing actor DHP is? Head and shoulders imo above everyone else in the show last night. I want his character in his own spinoff. PS we will see Johnny as Billy Bigelow next month on stage in Chicago. Mr MML bought tickets before he was even cast.

Pretty sure ALL the folks on the shows are somebody's neighbor or coworker....

Wait, so they picked the one who drops trou and has a field they can plow? Crazy! (ETA: Kaitlyn, can write a rap song rhyming trou and plow! America's sweetheart!)

Not a surprise to me. All the contestants were able to watch all of the Bachelor-they did not have only their first show's taping to base their decision on. They and the producers will have more fun with Kaitlyn, who is not shy in saying or doing anything. Wish we could get over the not-showering nonissue. Do people really believe that?

I bet Kaitlyn loooves that idea.... I was on team Britt but I still feel bad (well, as bad as I could considering it's an alternate-reality show) that Kaitlyn can't just have the spotlight role. I wonder what is really going on with this.

Thanks, Bugs.

Source?

I want normal people. I want to believe they left their normal lives to find someone they might love. I want to believe they could find love, and then return to their normal boring lives with their old jobs and no cameras. I am tired of Hollywood. I don't mind the editing and the guessing who wins and liking and not liking the contestants, but I want these people to be normal. And new people. I am sick of so and so is someone's sister and recycling them through other shows. I also want fewer candidates. If it's eight shows, have nine candidates and send only one home every week. Don't have people who never get to say a single word. If the season picks some candidates who don't end up being exceptionally camera-worthy, deal with it, editors. Let us and the B or B'ette get to know them. And I don't want to see Bachelor Chris on DWTS. Why the heck didn't they put Kaitlyn on it--fgs, she actually is a dancer, we have been told, and has a really good personality, she could easily have won. Bet she would rather have done that than be in the position she was put in last week.

My fînal conspiracy theory, which I have come up with all by myself in my paranoid tiny brain, is that the producers are afraid something racy might surface from one of the two women's pasts and taint the honest purity of the amazing journey. This idea also supports Arie's temporary co-candidacy, as the dirt on Chris's DUIs was being filtered by the tabloids. If the final pick isn't Kaitlyn, I will be even more suspicious about this. If one of the two women is voted off the very first night, will she have to hide for two months until the show starts? I can't see them doing that and I can't see it not being pretty publicly spoiled, so maybe BNB (Bachelor Nation Broadcasting haha) will release that information themselves in the most dramatic press release ever.

If only Mouch's double secret daughter was also Severide's double secret sister.

I read "somewhere" that this move was just a ploy to piss off the spoilers--the men will actually magically pick Kaitlyn anyway. Britt might in the first episode redeem herself a little to "Bachelor Nation" and thus be more acceptable as a future Bachelorette. BTW I am pretty sure Bachelor Nation is located near Bali or Antigua and is accessible only via helicopter or yacht. A tiny BA terrritory exists in Arlington, Iowa and requires a John Deere to get to..

I totally called the cow when JK went offstage to get his wedding gift for the happy couple. I was so hoping that Chris would have said to Whitney as he offered the final rose to her: "You had me at 'meow meow meow'." I loved the Becca line in that there were no tears, no guilt. I don't think Chris really cared that much for her in a romantic sense (vs Jade, for example). Becca seemed to be her own woman for the entire show. And no way is someone from San Diego going to move to Iowa and suffer through its seasons. I always think the two crazy kids at the end are going to make it. Involving Mom and Dad at the end was supercute; I hope they don't get all their hearts broken. At least Whitney knows what she is getting herself into.

Britt won't be the same person if she becomes Bachelorette no. 1. There won't be any reason for her to turn on the waterworks if she feels like she is being rejected because she won't be--she would be the one doing the rejecting. But she will still be pretty. Britt also might be more comfortable rejecting men than Kaitlyn. Since they became a big part of her storyline, Kaitlyn's "walls" which I believe means insecurity? would still be in place--she might be one of the Bachelorettes who doesn't trust that the men really like her, or pick one right off the bat that she thinks does like her. That might be tiresome over an entire season. I imagine the producers ran these two women's clips past a few focus groups to see which one would drive higher ratings and Britt ranked higher. Rather than piss off the known viewership of "Bachelor Nation" (Mr MML kept asking me who Bachelor Nation is), they are trying to seem like it will be the bachelors' decision and out of their hands. (Mr MML said immediately the men will choose Britt and also that he could hardly stand to watch her just on Jimmy Kimmel with her new habit of constant hair flipping). I am sure we will watch no matter what--the guys are so much more fun as a group, regardless of who is the Bachelorette. And hope the Bachelorette brings the crazy. Because it will be an amazing journey.

I can't imagine that Chris H. wrote any of his romance novel on his own. His name is the marketable brand, not his writing, and it wouldn't be worth his time to actually write it no matter how well he could write. I could see him coming up with characters and plots, and reading drafts of the manuscript as it progressed. i read that the audience members of WTA all left the taping with a copy of it so that's nice for them. Reading between the lines of blogs and interviews (CH's defense of Britt, saying we won't see a storybook romance at the finale, etc.), I wonder if Chris H. likes Chris S. much any more. Looking forward to ATFR!

Great episode of WTA, just great. I am now thinking Carly knew Chris on some level before the show, being a peripheral part of the extended Bachelor family, or if not, let him know very early that she knew what he was going through because of her brother having been a bachelor. I think that's why she defended herself to Britt by saying Chris was her friend (in a way that all the other women weren't) and I think that's why he greeted her first after the show. Totally agree with the poster who said Carly's snarking persona wouldn't work for the Bachelorette because she really wouldn't have anyone to demean, so she's out. Not to mention her low self-esteem--I always hate it when a couple of the Bachelorettes have seemed pathetically grateful to the bachelors for liking her. I do like Britt but I think she is sort of a one-note really nice girl who gets what she wants (she wanted to sit on stage? Done. She wanted to hug Chris right away? Done), so I don't know that she could carry the Bachelorette either. And there would seriously be a shortage of tears by the end of the season. Kaitlyn's sort of predictable comedian schtick got tiresome for me. Wonder why she needed so much closure--honey, if you gave it up in the FS, well, it takes two to tango. Is your humiliation based on knowing that Becca didn't and is still standing? Agree with another poster upthread that if Kaitlynn were the Bachelorette, she would end up with six new guy BFFs and no hubby. Kelsey, just go away, now. Juellia has a bazillion times more honest emotion over her late husband than you do, and never mentioned his full name either. Haha that Chris H. trumped your writerly foofooness by popping out a romance novel of his own. Jade's dramatic reveal on her elimination episode was 100 percent producer-driven. No way that laptop just happened to open up to her slideshow. Pretty girl, she'll be okay. No way she can be Bachelorette as there would be way too many guys applying. At least you have the wild mustang story that would be awesome to drive the show. I do think Chris was totally smitten with her. Please TPTB pick Ashley Cuckoo for Bachelorette. She shone on Monday night. She would be hilarious, and the rose ceremonies!--she could come in with the axe, the paintball gun, etc. The girl totally gets it. Or give her her own show, and make Megan her sidekick. Set on location of course in Mesa Verde. Call it "The Accounting Department."

I did think that water looked awfully dangerous when Whitney and Chris jumped overboard--have we ever lost a Bachelor and b'ette at sea? Now there's a show for you! I never felt the chemistry between Kaitlyn and Chris--their kissing was passionless to me, while there does seem to be a degree of tenderness between him and the other two. She is well rid of him, and seemed more humiliated to be sent home vs heartbroken. Not sure I want to see her as the Bachelorette but she would make a great CH stand-in imo. It's sort of fun watching a season where I'm not rooting for anyone. Hope to see some WTA hijinks and fireworks next week. And lots of fuchsia lipstick on everyone. The Revlon commercials are front and center this season, so I wonder if that's where the over-the-top lipstick and the out-to-there false eyelashes are coming from--freebies for everyone?

Like that never happens....

Carly would have taken Jade down in a heartbeat had she stayed after Britt left. She was pretty systematic in who she picked in the talking heads-- Ashley, Kelsey, Britt were all threats to her. Meow. She was the worst person in the house for Jade to share a confidence with. I was really disappointed in both Carly and Chris when Jade told them separately about her nude photos/video. You could see Carly mentally adding it to her catty mental database for future sniping and then she jumped up and said she needed a drink of water. Chris (such a nonsurprise, I know) just sat there like an idiot. Wish one or both would have said, hey, it's 2015, no big deal, you're a beautiful woman and have nothing to be ashamed about, everyone's got a body. I still think this was Britt's to lose and she chose to lose it. She was the most physically demonstrative with everyone, both in the house and with Chris, and seeing the reality of "winning" a one-way golden ticket to Arlington maybe took her out of it. She was two-faced but I can't remember her saying an unkind thing to or about another b'ette. Mr. MML interestingly doesn't think she's that attractive but he was on team Jade from the beginning without even being privy to her wild mustanginess. I take this show with a giant grain of salt re the editing monkeys (although it is true that they can work only with the material they have *coughKelseycough*) so maybe Carly is supernice except for her supermean clips--I hope she gets redeemed in the WTA.

Really glad to hear this--a couple of them (Brian and Chris) were in the "Bleachable moment" clip winner dissing him and giving him the cold shoulder. Probably just another example of the fakety fake fake fake--show is edited so far beyond reality.