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Post by angelic_one2002 on Aug 17, 2024 12:10:40 GMT
Mark is the about the only one I found attractive. The only one I thought was attractive is Michael.
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Post by SummerSue on Aug 25, 2024 1:38:45 GMT
Same here but I’ll take it. On Gerry’s season they were almost too old. I’m only a year younger than Mark! I'm a year older than Mark.
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Post by FannyMare on Sept 18, 2024 22:43:25 GMT
I watched the promo a couple of times, I think it might be interesting. I didn't think her face looked bad, especially compared to some of the housewives. I don't think photos tell much about the men, I like to see them in person.I'll be tuning in tonight. 👍
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Sept 19, 2024 1:02:09 GMT
Mark is the about the only one I found attractive. The only one I thought was attractive is Michael. Which one was he, angelic?
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Post by FannyMare on Sept 19, 2024 1:09:43 GMT
I think Jack has had one too many. Please dont jump in the pool Jack.
Charles seems enamoured with the kitchen
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Post by FannyMare on Sept 19, 2024 1:14:29 GMT
Jonathan is handsome imho.
Hmm, his poem was corny
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Sept 19, 2024 1:25:17 GMT
Jonathan is handsome imho. Hmm, his poem was corny Yes to both. But if I recall correctly, he was blindsided by his divorce, and lives in a small town in Iowa, and his kids mean everything to him. I doubt Joan will relocate.
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Post by FannyMare on Sept 19, 2024 1:28:16 GMT
Chock has a dog, that's points!
Chock is very adventurous, he has nice eyes
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Post by angelic_one2002 on Sept 19, 2024 11:50:38 GMT
The only one I thought was attractive is Michael. Which one was he, angelic? In the page one Joan Vassos thread here, there is a link highlighted in blue 'meet the men'. I saw his picture in there.
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Sept 21, 2024 14:59:35 GMT
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Post by MissGriss on Sept 21, 2024 19:22:54 GMT
I knew about the restraining order before watching, and found it especially rich that as Gill and Joan were talking post-limo-exit, there was a voice over of Kim saying: “She’s an exceptional woman, and she deserves the best she can find.” I thought it was just an ironic coincidence, but it sounds like they knew about the restraining order before editing, so maybe it was an editor getting in a jab.
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Post by FannyMare on Sept 21, 2024 21:07:35 GMT
I didn't remember there was a Gill, until she called out his name. I remember him saying, I hear you're a great catch. He wasn't a standout for me,
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Post by MissGriss on Sept 22, 2024 2:51:30 GMT
I didn't remember there was a Gill, until she called out his name. I remember him saying, I hear you're a great catch. He wasn't a standout for me, Agreed. He wouldn’t have stood out for me either if I hadn’t been looking for him.
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Post by MissGriss on Sept 24, 2024 23:33:05 GMT
Details of the restraining order aside, I feel bad for Gil that all of this has gotten out there so publicly. Reality Steve is reporting that the restraining order was filed right as Gil was leaving for the show and neither he nor the producers knew about it when he went on.
He wasn’t served with it until in August after he returned home from the show, and I have to wonder if he would have gone on the show had he known. Having something like that go so public at this stage in his life could be devastating. He has a good job as an athletic director at a high school and is approaching retirement age, and this could really mess things up for him. It’s possible that losing his job at this point could affect his pension vesting, etc.
Not minimizing that his stalking and harassing the woman was wrong, but there wasn’t even time for him to know about the order and show that he was dealing with things appropriately before it went public. It’s a shame that this came on the heels of the much worse situation with Devon and ended up impacting Gil in this way.
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Post by Navybelle on Oct 13, 2024 2:18:47 GMT
Now apparently Guy is coming clean about a restraining order on him, from his ex-wife. He says he wasn't himself, or something like that, during the time of their split, so did some things he wasn't proud of. She apparently voluntarily dropped the order. In case you're not interested in clicking the whole article, I found this part most interesting: ABC has not publicly commented on the situation involving Gansert, but a source close to the production of The Golden Bachelorette tells PEOPLE that they “learned from Gansert during our vetting process that an application for a Temporary Protective Order was filed against him from his ex-wife after a disagreement."
The source notes production then “confirmed that it was never granted, as Gansert’s ex-wife voluntarily dismissed the application shortly after the filing. Therefore, he was cleared to continue through the casting process.”People
They act like this was so long ago, but Fall of 2021 seems like just yesterday to me! lol
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Post by MissGriss on Oct 13, 2024 3:38:25 GMT
I wonder if the producers read the restraining order. It may not have been granted, but there was some pretty aggressively angry behavior that would be frightening to be on the other end of. While he may have done the necessary work since that time, there's no way the producers can know that he won't go there again, and that should have disqualified him from being on the show. I get that he's charming, but I'm appalled that they let him on. It's really not up to me to judge one way or the other who he is at his essence or whether he's okay now, but it's clear that the show doesn't care about ensuring that the bachelorette women have safe people to choose from. I just watched a video this evening from the Game of Roses people where they were talking about this issue. I guess there's a NY Times article about it. I haven't read it yet, but I'm putting a link here. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/arts/television/bachelor-gerry-turner-jenn-tran-devin-strader.html
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Post by shyra on Oct 13, 2024 20:13:35 GMT
I wonder if the producers read the restraining order. It may not have been granted, but there was some pretty aggressively angry behavior that would be frightening to be on the other end of. While he may have done the necessary work since that time, there's no way the producers can know that he won't go there again, and that should have disqualified him from being on the show. I get that he's charming, but I'm appalled that they let him on. It's really not up to me to judge one way or the other who he is at his essence or whether he's okay now, but it's clear that the show doesn't care about ensuring that the bachelorette women have safe people to choose from. I just watched a video this evening from the Game of Roses people where they were talking about this issue. I guess there's a NY Times article about it. I haven't read it yet, but I'm putting a link here. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/arts/television/bachelor-gerry-turner-jenn-tran-devin-strader.htmlIs there a way to share this because it won't let me read the article unless I sign up and receive e-mails from them
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Post by MissGriss on Oct 13, 2024 21:59:47 GMT
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Post by Navybelle on Oct 14, 2024 3:26:51 GMT
^Thank you for that free link. I had hit the paywall too, earlier.
It's interesting that they seem to have been more stringent in their background checks before, than now, according to Wells. To me, they've always done some questionable casting, but lately it's been pretty embarrassing.
The article made it sounds like the show was getting 10 million viewers UNTIL Chris Harrison left, then it went down. I thought I heard that it was going down each year, anyway. But no matter what, they shouldn't be letting people with serious issues onto the show.
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Post by MissGriss on Oct 14, 2024 4:13:41 GMT
You’re welcome! I had forgotten that I can share 10 free articles a month, or I would have posted the free link to begin with.
Good points about some of the assumptions in the article! The Game of Roses guy said he had some quibbles with the article writer and that they would probably be doing a video about where they thought the holes were. You might want to look for that.
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Post by Critical on Oct 14, 2024 4:34:59 GMT
I tend to trust "serious" media outlets less in matters of reality TV. They generally have someone whose barely or never watched the show before write the article and they often make a lot of assumptions. I'd rather go with a source that has people writing about shows who are actually fans - or at least regular watchers - of the shows. Navybelle - that was my take as well about viewership. That's the kind of statement that makes for "better" reading, accuracy be damned IIRC, the ratings have been pretty good for Joan's season, as they were for Gary's. The reality is that there are a lot more options for viewers now than there were when the show was at its height, so that, coupled with the length of the time the series has aired, it's natural that the ratings wouldn't be as high as they were.
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Post by cavendish on Oct 14, 2024 19:39:13 GMT
My question is : why do people older than a certain age — wherever you locate it— have to have a special differentiating category that always marks them as not just a regular person? Why is Joan not just a bachelorette? Why do some people have to be “seniors” as opposed to just regular people? Or even why does someone need to be referred to as an “old” or “older” man or woman? Why do people suddenly become not men or women or people but older men women or people? It’s actually a way imo of somehow suggesting that these people are no longer really full people any more— they’re in a class that is weak,frail,or easily shunted-aside — no matter how laudatory the name of the category is— you’re not a woman on a date — you’re a cougar…. Or you’re a “silver fox” 🤮— or whatever. Please everyone (world at large) just give me a break. Drop the phony honorifics— how about we just call people beyond a certain age “people” and stop there?
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Post by shyra on Oct 14, 2024 20:21:41 GMT
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Post by karna68 on Oct 15, 2024 12:10:59 GMT
cavendish idk doesn’t bother me and I’m 56. I think for the purpose of the bachelor franchise it’s to differentiate the older from the younger people. Ok this ad at the bottom is annoying!
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