Ashley intends to make both of her final suitors get down on bended knee to propose! Is that fair?
Ashley Hebert has had a rough season on The Bachelorette, but it’s finally coming to a close. Next Monday is her last final rose ceremony, and by the show’s end, she’ll either be engaged to Ben Flajnik or JP Rosenbaum. However, she’s decided to put both men through the ringer, and lets them get down on bended knee to propose to her — fully well knowing she can only pick one to wed. Is this completely cruel?
The 24-year-old dental assistant has always prided herself on how she respects the guys and how she doesn’t want to hurt them with her choices. She’s even displayed this by dumping Ryan Park before a rose ceremony in order to save him embarrassment, knowing full well she would never want to be with him.
So why is she about to let both men confess their feelings when she only feels for one? “Both guys get full-on down on one knee,” a show insider tells Us magazine.
Really caring for Ben and JP as she does, is it fair of her to let both embarrass themselves on national television to reveal a love that she only feels for one? Shouldn’t she do as former Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky did last season by letting Chris Lambton go before the final ceremony?
Perhaps Ashley is feeling low about herself — after, Bentley Williams and Constantine Tzortzis both opted out of the competition rather than date her — or perhaps she really doesn’t like either of her two finalists, but it is not fair to make both guys pour out their hearts if she seriously loves or prefers one over the other.
Does this make Ashley feel better about herself, that two great guys are fighting for her (and that was out of 25 original suitors) until the bitter end? That both are going to tell her how strongly they feel? It isn’t right.
The reality star literally could not make up her mind about who to choose until the very end of the show’s taping. “I liked so many things about both of them,” she said. “But, at the end, I knew exactly how I felt.” Really? Doesn’t sound like it.
It’s no wonder this season will have an unexpected outcome: “Viewers will see something from one of the guys you’ve never really seen: anger,” says the tabloid. “There is no friendship with Ashley after that.”
I’d say this, at least, is a pretty fair assumption, given that Ashley herself is hardly being fair to two men who genuinely care about her. She’s leading on the one she’s about to dump, and she’s playing fast and loose with the emotions of the one she’s going to pick in the end. How can she legitimately want to marry one when she’s still kissing and having sleepovers with another?
This kind of fickleness in love isn’t going to get Ashley anywhere in the long run. Let her mistakes be a lesson to you.
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Janice
Posted at 12:22 AM on July 29, 2011
I can’t imagine the show would let her get by with sending one guy home early… they want the drama and controversy because it makes for good ratings and many magazine articles. Bet they told her she had to wait, that she couldn’t send one home like Ali did.
Olivia
Posted at 6:43 PM on July 28, 2011
They sign up for the show knowing full well what could happen. Also, in real life, someone may or may not return your feelings. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to express their feelings? Maybe she had doubts until the end, and having them say what they needed to say, or she needed to hear affected her decision. I have a feeling like most of these endings one of the men will be stopped before they actually make a proposal, even if they get out of the limo and express their love for her. I don’t think Ashley is cruel, and people have been far too harsh on everything about her from her looks, to how she dealt with the Bentley situation. I wonder how many of us would look perfect if our love lives were televised and edited for ratings.
IB
Posted at 9:47 PM on July 28, 2011
Well said and I agree. Plus why judge, it’s not like she’s the first one to allow both guys to propose. This is how the show works. And maybe it did take her until the very end to make a decision (like the article states), unlike with Ali last year. And the whole Bentley thing…she got played…everyone should just let this go and hope she’s happy with her choice.
Kathy
Posted at 5:21 PM on July 28, 2011
Bentley and Ashley would make a good pair – both very self-absorbed. I hope this article is wrong because I did like her but this changes everything.
Kathy
Posted at 5:14 PM on July 28, 2011
All I have to say is if she truly did this – then she is no better than Bentley. If she did this to either men knowing how vulnerable they both were about their emotions – she is a self centered ??????!
On another note…..I think Ben is toooo much man for her. Whoever gets this guy will be blessed. HOT STUFF and genuine.
I
Posted at 2:22 PM on July 28, 2011
Honestly yes it is…but it kind of works that way on this reality show whether we like it or not.
galey
Posted at 12:54 PM on July 28, 2011
In my opinion that is a nasty thing to do to these two guys…am I surprised? Not really….Ashley has been a poor representative as a “bachlorette” anyway and pretty much of a nut case!
Cheryl
Posted at 11:51 AM on July 29, 2011
Galey
You hit the nail on the head. Emotional nut-case!!!! All that crying. Whoa!
Marilou Roberts
Posted at 4:18 PM on August 3, 2011
Ashley tried to stopped him but he interrupted her. He didn’t gave her a breathing space to speak. He just went on and on and it was rude to not let him finished. On the other hand she should not Expect Ben not to get angry. Clearly she led him on and made him believed he was the one. The last man that would be standing. He never even thought of J.P. He was confident that Ashley was going to accept his proposal.I really felt sad for Ben but it wasn’t meant to be. IMO.