For those of you who block seasons of this show from your brain once they end (I'm jealous), Brad was the infamous Season 11 Bachelor who decided not to choose DeAnna or Jenni at the finale. It was like the infamous Kelly Taylor "I choose me" thing, but far tackier. Basically, instead of pretending to be in love with one of these girls (like previous Bachelors have by saying they're in love, and then breaking up as soon as the cameras stop rolling) he just decided he didn't like his choices and opted out. Some might applaud him for not settling, but why go on a show about finding someone if you clearly have either commitment issues or at least a low comfort level with how fake the show is? Even Tom Bergeron advised him to pick someone this time; it's ABC's only hope with this franchise.

But Why does this guy get another bevy of desperate beauties to be at his beck and call to choose from? Especially since he already told Ellen that he would walk away from the new girls again if he doesn't find the one. That's basically undermining the entire existence of this already useless show. The whole point of this gross pseudo-fairytale is to let people believe that you can find true love on a reality show... even if the success rate is very, very low. If he's saying before filming that he's not down with playing into the fantasy, then why are we going to be stuck watching him for an entire season? Solely to see another brokenhearted DeAnna type end up being the next Bachelorette? Because that's just freaking annoying.

Also, what girls are going to want Brad given what they've seen him do on television to other emotionally fragile failed actresses? He hurt the feelings of two ladies in front of all of America and basically told them they weren't good enough. He says that he's been working on his life and his commitment issues via therapy over the last couple of years, and I'm all for second chances, but then to hear him tell Ellen he'd do the same thing again is a bit irksome. Basically, he's going on this show to get some women to fawn over him, hook up with him in the fantasy suite and then not call them. It's the televised version of a one-night stand, and if you take out the whole "love" conceit, it really gives new meaning to famewhoring.

So now we'll be stuck with watching Chris Harrison gush on and on about what a changed man Brad is since his original run on the show, and how bringing him back wasn't the act of desperation that it appears to be. Really, are none of the men on our wish list available? Sure, most of them just rolled out of the communal herpes bed at the Bachelor Pad house, but that shouldn't stop them from finding actual true TV love. And at least they'd be entertaining. I personally didn't care for Brad all that much as a Bachelor the first time around... and that was even before he pulled the finale stunt. Or why couldn't they expand outside of the dating pool -- are there no other fake princes available? No other quasi-famous brothers of celebrities that want to boost their own profile? Its like they aren't even trying any more over there at ABC.

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