ABC confirmed Monday night that Atlanta assistant district attorney Andi Dorfman will be the next "Bachelorette."
Per tradition, ABC picked its most compelling character from the previous season's "Bachelor" who didn't become the beau to join the summer show. Dorfman took herself out of the competition for Juan Pablo Galavis's affections in an episode two weeks ago after a fantasy suite date went bad.
The 26 year old gang prosecutor sounds sincere enough when she says she wants to find a husband this way, hoping to replicate what her parents and her newlywed sister have. The odds of the ladies in the spinoff show finding a husband appear to be better than the other way around. Of nine previous "Bachelorette" women, two married the person they picked on the show and one is engaged. (Former Newnan DeAnna Pappas found her love after the show ended.)
"I'm looking to find that great love. I have a great life. I just don't have anyone to spend it with," she said on the ABC special "After the Rose." "I love my job but at the end of the day my job is not my priority. I'm ready to find my husband."
News sites have been buzzing about her becoming the "Bachelorette" the past two weeks. TMZ even procured a letter from Fulton County D.A. Paul Howard giving her a leave of absence until the end of May to pursue her reality-show dreams.
She loves to hunt and fish as well as shop, according to the ABC press release. She graduated Louisiana State University in 2009 and received a law degree from Wake Forest in 2012.
The tenth edition of "The Bachelorette" debuts May 19 at 9 p.m., then move to its regular 8 p.m. time slot the following Monday.
These shows tend to draw a core group of rabid fans but seldom do they result in long-lasting relationships. But for many viewers, it's the journey that counts, not the final result. There's a fantasy element being wooed in exotic places all around the world, even if such structured "dates" seldom result in realistic expectations or any sense of what life would be like in normal day-to-day life.
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