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At some point, they just need to make it stop. Honestly … just make it stop. Every time they have a special of any sort on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, something other than one of their regular shows, they trot out their only truly successfully happy couple, Trista and Ryan Sutter, after twelve seasons of The Bachelor and three of The Bachelorette.

Sure, there are a couple other pairs that are still together, but it’s hard for me to count them seriously. Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado got engaged ouright the finale of the fourth season of The Bachelor in 2004, and the wedding is supposedly finally happening this year. However, they appeared on the special After the Final Rose episode of The Bachelor last fall when Brad Womack rejected Deanna Pappas for the second time, and Byron joked with the audience behind Mary’s head, making it appear he would never marry her. It can’t be coincidental that a few days later she was arrested for domestic abuse after punching him in the mouth. Successful? Nah.

The only other couple still together is Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas, but for me it’s hard to count them as well, as their season just got over with. It hasn’t had time to fizzle yet. Of The Bachelor couples other than them and Byron and Mary, seasons one, two, and five broke up after several months, and were joined by couples that broke up after a few years, broke up after the show aired, and broke up as the Bachelor then pursued the woman he rejected in the finale, and later ended it with her as well. On The Bachelorette, other than Trista and Ryan, the other one couple ended it after several months, and in the other season, The Bachelorette chose her man, but then rejected his offer for engagement. Not a great track record here.

Yet, for some reason, ABC thinks they’re fooling us, and that we won’t realize they had all those misses and only one true hit. So they keep pulling Trista and Ryan out for yet another show as the poster children of good Bachelor romances. And while they have a baby that is around a year old now, I’ve seen him at least three or four times already. That’s how much they trot them out. Tonight, we heard that she thinks Deanna is doing a good job at finding a guy, as apparently Trista’s now an expert.

Without Trista’s help, we already know Deanna’s doing a good job. We know she’s taking it seriously. After being hurt by Brad, she’s making sure she doesn’t lead anyone on, and she keeps breaking down with these guys. She screamed at them a few weeks ago because they weren’t recognizing how difficult it was for her, and the previews for next week show her breaking down again and crying to someone that she wanted him to be there in the end, and he doesn’t realize how difficult this is for her. It sure seems like she cuts Graham loose, after trying to force him to be who she wants him to be.

Deanna has a physical attraction to Graham, but has a deeper, more meaningful relationship with the other guys in the final three. And we know all that even without Trista’s help. If Deanna can see her way to pick a guy that she has a physical attraction to as a well as a meaningful relationship, I think we’ll see her and her bachelor trotted out for all the Bachelor and Bachelorette events. She just might supplant Trista.

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