It’s happening, you guys! After two seasons of catfights and no shortage of tears, The Bachelorette is coming to Canada!
We stayed with The Bachelor Canada through two seasons where we really, really thought Brad Smith and Tim Warmels would find the homegrown woman of their dreams, but, sadly, that didn’t happen. Now, The Toronto Star is reporting that the female-fronted version of the franchise will be heading to the Great White North next fall and a former bachelorette knows just the kind of girl to star in it.
Jillian Harris, who you may remember from season season 13 of The Bachelor, followed by season 5 of The Bachelorette and host of Love It Or List It Vancouver, breaks down the kind of girl who would flourish on the show — but is this the right message to send to the woman who gets to choose between all those hunky dudes?
Harris lists off a number of traits that the new Bachelorette should have, placing her as the ever-coveted “cool girl” in a way that seems as though she’s the high-maintenance once. And while if you’ve ever seen Harris on her show, you know that she’s bubbly and sweet and anything but the “hoity toity” girl she describes in her interview, her laundry list of qualities kind of miss the mark. What if a girl who has higher standards is having a hard time finding love and wants to give it a go? Should she have to settle for something less? Maybe not.
Harris also recommends that the new Bachelorette not concern herself with “who’s there for the wrong reasons,” providing a pretty good analogy, but if you’ve been keeping up with the franchise for the past few seasons (we definitely have), you know that there are some guys and gals just in it to play the game and get their 15 minutes of fame. So, yes, they are actually villains, especially the douchebags that neglect to mention they’re girlfriend/wife/children sitting at home.
She does, however, tell the Bachelorette-to-be to “be yourself” and “kill the bullies with kindness” — both sage pieces of advice. One of the most frustrating things to watch is when a Bachelor/Bachelorette is one way with one hopeful contestant and another way with a different contestant. And as much as the whole be-nice-to-your-enemy mantra is the much healthier option, the show wouldn’t be what it is today if there weren’t that spark of drama. Then again, the contestants create that all on their own, don’t they?
Does anyone actually go on this show with the hope that they’ll find true love? We hope so because we’re hooked.
