LawNewz.com:
If you were watching The Bachelor Monday night, you might have noticed the presence of an unlikely contestant: Dallas attorney Rachel Lindsay.
She caught our attention because why would such a highly qualified and
accomplished young woman such as Lindsay subject herself to the circus
that is The Bachelor?
She’s got a pretty impressive legal pedigree. Lindsay, 31, a
Marquette University Law School graduate, received her bachelor’s
degree in kinesiology and sports management from the University of Texas
in Austin. She has worked in various positions related to sports,
entertainment, and media relations, in addition to working as an intern
in the public defender’s office in Milwaukee and as a legal intern with
the Milwaukee Bucks. After graduating from Marquette, Rachel worked as
an attorney with Brown & Hofmeister, LLP as well as the Willis Law Group before moving onto her current position as a civil litigation attorney with Cooper & Scully, P.C.
Lindsay is admitted to practice law in Texas, Wisconsin and the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Surely not the
predictable candidate for a run of The Bachelor.
So why the need to appear on the primetime show? It
seems that while she is proud of her accomplishments, Lindsey believes
all of the time spent on her professional life may have ultimately taken
a toll on her love life. In her profile,
Lindsay states that focusing too much on her career is her biggest
regret and believes that might have led her to miss out on her chance at
finding love.
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People.com:
Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton have called it quits, PEOPLE confirms.
“Josh and I did break up,” Stanton, 26, told PEOPLE at The Bachelor Charity Premiere Party at Sycamore Tavern in Los Angeles on Monday.
“I know there’s been a lot of speculation about our relationship and
to be honest, I think some people thought I was avoiding it,” she
continued. “I think it’s good to set the record straight and tell
everyone that we’re not together anymore. I just didn’t really know how
to go about it.”
Murray, 32, and Stanton met while starring as contestants on Bachelor in Paradise during the summer of 2016.
The two hit it off almost instantly, quickly becoming one of the
season’s most solid couples, and went public with their engagement
following the season finale of Bachelor in Paradise on Sept. 6 — but their road to engagement wasn’t always smooth.
“There was a lot of different reasons [we called off our
engagement],” Stanton said. “At the end of the day, we were just two
very different people. I think there are some things when you love
someone you can work on and try to fix things, and then there are some
things you just can’t fix. I think it got to that point where we just
knew it wasn’t going to work.”
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PageSix.com:
There’s at least one person out there who isn’t excited to watch Nick Viall’s journey on “The Bachelor.”
In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar attacked the show, warning viewers, “There is an insidious darkness beneath the fairytale pabulum they are serving up.”
He goes on to explain the short-term effects of the ABC show are
harmless, but the long-term effects can “have serious consequences,”
just like with “smoking” or “listening to Kenny G.”
“These shows promote the scorched-earth effects of raising females to
be continually judged physically above all other attributes and then
measured against impossible physical standards that has marginalized a
majority of girls and women,” Abdul-Jabbar writes. “The real crime is
the lack of intellectual and appearance diversity, which leaves the
contestants as interchangeable as the Mr. Potato Head parts.”
He concluded, “The real danger is when we try to apply that fantasy
thinking to our own lives. And when we think about where our children
learn about the realities of romance, it becomes even more important to
question what may influence their behavior in choosing a partner.”
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People.com:
Who needs a rose when you’ve got a whole bouquet?
Selma Alameri, who competed on Sean Lowe’s season of The Bachelor, has found her happily ever after with Patrick Daniels, whom she married in a low-key city hall ceremony on Thursday.
The 29-year-old San Diego real estate developer took to Instagram to make the announcement.
“Getting married!” she captioned a photo of herself in a knee-length
white dress, black heels and a bouquet of red and white flowers. The
bride wore her hair loose and kept her makeup simple with a pop of red
lipstick.
In another photo that shows her getting a kiss on the cheek from her new husband, Alameri wrote, “It’s official!!! Mr. and Mrs. Daniels!!” adding the hashtag #cityhallstyle.
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USmagazine.com:
Back to paradise? Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton experienced a bumpy end to 2016, but the Bachelor in Paradise alums were spotted together on Wednesday, December 28, just a few weeks after multiple sources confirmed to Us Weekly that the pair had split, and days before they are set to appear together on a new Bachelor special.
Murray and Stanton were all smiles as they posed for a pic
with a fan at a Free People clothing store in the Lenox Square mall in
his hometown of Atlanta on December 28. The fan's brother, JohnMark
Conklin, posted the photo to Twitter.
A source tells Us that
the Bachelor Nation faves seemed relaxed and were discussing their New
Year's Eve plans, although it was unclear if they would be ringing in
2017 together.
The pair have not addressed their rumored split but are likely to give
an update on their romance when they appear together on the new special The Bachelor: Countdown to Nick, airing on ABC on Sunday, January 1, a day before Nick Viall's season 21 premiere. Other Bachelor Nation couples taking part in the special include Sean and Catherine Lowe, Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell, Kaitlyn Bristowe and Shawn Booth, and Paradise season 3 lovebirds Carly Waddell and Evan Bass.
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