Bachelorette Editors May Have Gone Too Far
Last night apparently there was some huge deal on The Bachelorette and I know people around the office are saying they will never watch it again. I don't know what happened, but it made me at least search to find out what has been happening on the show this season, and what I found was something disturbing.
Apparently there was a Bachelor named Wes. Well, according to Wes, the editors and producers of the show did such a deceitful job of editing that he can no longer get work and that his ex-girlfriend gets calls at her home and work calling her a bitch and a whore and are asking others to boycott her brand new business.
I guess this all got started because at some point Wes said he had a girlfriend. It turns out this isn't true, but was Wes simply repeating a question the producer had just asked him so it looked like he had a girlfriend. For the record he doesn't and didn't and his ex-girlfriend completely agrees.
“We haven’t been together since last July or August." He went on to say that if he did have a girlfriend he wouldn't have been on the show and would have been at home with his girlfriend.
I guess Wes is a performer and no one is booking him anymore and those that have booked him are canceling. I feel for the guy. “Nobody wants to see this guy that everybody thinks is a bad guy.”At one show he did manage to snag, a woman walked up to him and said, "You’re such an ass."
Like I said before, I have not seen the show and maybe he did other a-holey things to deserve this reputation, but if all he did was repeat a question of a producer and is getting hammered like this in life, than it is wrong because it is not just affecting Wes, who signed up for it, but an ex-girlfriend who didn't. She might even think about suing ABC and Disney.
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I don't watch the show either, but read a review of the show in which he apparently let it slip to the Bachelorette in question that he *did* have a girlfriend at which point she booted him from her potential suitors, so who knows what to believe. The review also said that the guy is an ass generally and clearly did the show for publicity for his career, but perhaps someone who actually watches can tell us if any of that is right.
Perhaps he's Prince Charming...it doesn't change the sheer criminality of that shirt!
Uh, it's not editing. Saying "If I go home, I'll be getting lots of sex" and "I'm the first guy to make it to the final four with a girlfriend" in front of a camera is pretty telling. Clearly not edited because you're watching him the entire time (not L-cuts). Yes, it's ridiculous for people to go after him...but he's a gigantic ass.
Enty he DID have a girlfriend the whole and even said so on his limo ride home.
"i'm going to be the first bachelor in history to make it to the final four with a girlfriend. Now i'm in Spain and everyone will know my name"
fucking opportunist! both him and his gf can suck it, they deserve what they get.
ok, now can we talk about Ed's heinous outfits last night???
Yep Enty, Jax and Caroline are correct. He DID say those things. He was a complete tool on the show. Karma, man...
LOL re: Ed's clothing choices!
Wes admitted that going on the show was his band manager's idea.
With or without a girlfriend, Wes was very open about getting free publicity for his band by being on the show.
All in all, Wes did not have to 'fess up to a girlfriend to show that he is an arrogant idiot.
Realitysteve.com has a good interview with him, though I don't believe it word for word. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I watch the show (guilty pleasure) and they did make Wes come across as someone completely out for his career, with a girlfriend, and a self-centered jerk. I believe it was a character the show created, but also don't buy the fact that he's this great guy. He plays dumb about the whole Bachelor enterprise and how he knew nothing about it, yet dated a girl who dated another Bachelor from a different season and is still friends with her. How does that not come up in conversation? The girl doesn't deserve the harassment at all, but I can't quite say the same about Wes. He went into it probably thinking he was going to get this great edit and it backfired. I'm sorry, don't people know how these shows work?
I heard another guy from the show - Dave - is also running into personal problems from how he was portrayed...which was a drunk and pervert. Horribly uncomfortable to watch. I guess he's a coach at a high school and a few mothers got upset by his behavior and demanded he be fired. The kids love him and were organizing a protest to the Board to reverse the decision.
The lesson here is that reality TV is not what it once was, folks. You will be turned into a character, you have no say in the matter, and while it may give you the fame you're looking for it can also ruin your life.
In terms of being disgusted with the show, I'm more upset that the better looking & younger Matthew Perry look-a-like Reid was dumped last night. The two guys left are vacant, empty shells, and one has girlfriends all over Chicago yet somehow that hasn't come up on the show yet. Again, it's all about the producers, how you treat them, what you give them, and what character they decide you'll play. I watch knowing that none of it is real, some of it is boring, but in between it can be entertaining at what some people put themselves through for "love."
i don't watch this piece of shit show, but 95% of them do it for publicity so he wouldn't be anything new.
Last night?! I thought I saw that last week! I too thougt he came across as a smug prick who deserved to be punched in the neck. I had this reaction after only seeing that one scene of this season, so you can imagine what kind of a 1st class asshole he must be.
Ya, I <3 Jillian, so my cousin and I have been watching the show.
Not only did he say that he made it to the final four with a gf, in a previous episode he bragged to all the guys that all he wanted to do was to make it onto the show, play a few songs for Jillian and then become famous.
Prior to one of the elimination rounds, he specifically said that he didn't care if he was sent home since he accomplished his goal of playing three songs on t.v.
Wes sucks. What a douche.
Jillians hot.
Ed's shorts were the big discussion on the ABC message board. Disco shorts and all, I'm still rooting for Ed.
RealitySteve sez that Wes was made to look bad by the producers. Waaaaa, booboo baby. He signed up for this crap. I heard him say on the show that his manager told him to get on the show for exposure. He certainly plugged his music every chance he got. Isn't any publicity good for a struggling musician?
The guy who should sue is the foot fetish nut.
This whole thing has backfired on Wes. He is continuing his fast-talking seeing who will believe him. He clearly stated he was there for his music several times & his music is only so-so at best.
That's one UGLY shirt. I would have kicked him to the curb for that alone.