Most Booze-Soaked Bachelor Ever! Tipsy-turvy champagne-swilling manhunters went in for the kill on The Bachelor: Paris on ABC and City TV last night. But Nashville ER doc Travis Stork refused to give up the first kiss of the mating series, even under intense pressure from Winnipeg contender Sarah Blondin.
“Can we start with a baby kiss?” Blondin urged the bachelor after pulling him aside at the pre-rose ceremony cocktail party.
“It’s still so early … I feel like I need to have restraint,” Travis demurred after a bit of light nuzzling. The proprietary Blondin, who stays at Stork’s side whenever possible and already has a habit of throwing her legs into his lap when they sit together, let him off the hook, saying, “as long as you do that with everyone.”
Travis, who was seen making out with Blondin and other women in teaser segments for forthcoming episodes, said he found her advances endearing.
“She was very persistent … in such a cute way that it was adorable.”
Not so adorable was Anna Nicole lookalike Kristen’s weird wooing during the much-coveted individual date. At one point, she made fake fangs out of an orange peel during their romantic dinner — “When she started cutting slits in it, my first reaction was ‘Oh, no,’ ” he said afterward. But she had already sealed her fate by sharing a dorky poem about “cruising the Seine together (in) fair weather.” Yoiks.
Predatory Chicago sales rep Jehan secured the first rose — the immunity idol of the show — and Miami financial manager Tara bagged the second when she pulled Travis aside in a gang date to Champagne, where the bubbly flowed freely.
That incident burst hoserette Blondin’s balloon. She’d just finished telling Travis the first time they met she was, “kinda like wow, you know? And it’s not often you feel wow.”
After Tara got the rose, Blondin was all like, “Wow, my perception was so wrong. Because you know when you feel something is like … real and all of a sudden he doesn’t give you a rose and your whole world is turned upside-down.”
That led to what could have been the Most Shocking Rose Ceremony Ever! With just one rose left, Susan was empty handed, but in the end, she squeaked by. Blondin also scored a flower, meaning she’ll live to seduce another day.
