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November 30, 2007

'Bachelor' Brad's Choice: 'It Was Just as Hard for Me'

“The Bachelor’s” Brad Womack is finally speaking out about why he refused to choose either of the final two women on the show, leaving viewers stunned and causing Ellen DeGeneres to call him “a jerk.”

“I just did not simply have strong enough feelings to start a relationship,” Brad tells “Extra.”

“Believe me, it was just as hard for me as it was for them,” he insists.

Brad refused to choose either of the show’s finalists in the dramatic Nov. 19 finale. Both DeAnna Pappas, 25, and Jenni Croft, 27, were left astounded when Brad, 35, simply walked away.

But the Texas bar owner is insisting that he did not lead the women on and is hitting back at rumors that he took advantage of them.

“No, I did not sleep with any of the ladies,” Brad flatly tells “Extra.”

Ellen DeGeneres took aim at Brad this week when she publicly called him “a jerk” for leaving both women alone. She complained that he had even flown Pappas’ father in, blasting, “You had said earlier that if you were going to ask someone to marry them, you would need permission from the father first."

But when Brad appeared on Ellen’s show yesterday, he claimed, “I never one time asked for DeAnna’s father to be flown out. Never one single time."

Through it all, Brad believes real love could be in his future.

“I’m always hopeful,” he tells “Extra.” “I’m a hopeless romantic.”


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Actually, I totally understand Brad’s position. Everyone has to understand that there are many different personalities and they approach love and life in different ways. Brad isn’t a committment-phobe. He may meet his soul-mate one day and if not, I am sure he is going to be very content on his own. I’ll bet if he took the myer’s briggs he would come out as an ENFP or something similar. He did the very best thing he could. It’s what I would have done.


- Laura
Posted 03/10/08 05:27 PM
 

Brad is such a cry baby I mean he acts like it is so hard for him to feel up a bunch a girls and then dump them all. Hello didn’t he realize that there were cameras every where he went and that he would look like a fool on national television? What was with all of the pressure he put on the girls to open up and he never let on to any of them that he had no interest. What a putz well maybe he isn’t gay but he should consider it because no woman is going to want him now.


- Party Girl
Posted 12/12/07 05:52 PM
 

Good luck on finding a wife you’re too picky and you are not all that.


- Jen
Posted 12/11/07 09:39 PM
 

I don’t see any women taking Brad Skidmark seriously anymore.
He’s like a scared little kid!
He just wants to continue to play the field like he did on the show he got a taste of the good life!

The way he talks is a little annoying.


- Samy
Posted 12/10/07 08:45 PM
 

GET OVER IT, GIRLS! This guy did these two women an enormous favor! I truly believe he had feelings for both, but when it came time to “proposing” or even committing, he went with his heart, and ultimately sparing these women even more pain in the future. When it’s not there…it’s not there. He was true to himself, which is commendable these days. It wasn’t right for him, and he’s a better man for being true to himself.


- Robin
Posted 12/06/07 11:56 AM
 

This guy makes absolutely no sense at all. He sat there on the final show and told Deanna that he thought about her every day. No man thinks about a woman every day for a couple of months if he does not care about her. No one ever said that they had to get engaged on the show. Several of the couples have not. One of them asked for an extra two months to make his decision. This guy just wanted the fame of being on the Bachelor and partying with 2 to 25 women for several weeks. I would like to see a statement from the producers of the show. I would like to know if Brad told them at some point that he did not feel anything for any of these women and they made him continue with the show anyway to the end. How about it ABC? I just didn’t see it. It was all this angst because he couldn’t choose because he cared so much about them, he never said none of the girls did it for him. You don’t sit on there and gush about how much you care, go pick out an engagement ring, and then aren’t even willing to go on a date with one of these girls away from the cameras to see how it felt. Did ABC make him give the ring back? If not, they should have.


- Melva
Posted 12/03/07 10:08 PM
 

Brad your name is mud now!
Women are going to be sceptical about dating you because they are afraid you are going to leave skid marks when you take off!


- Chelsea
Posted 12/03/07 09:53 PM
 

Brad is full of it! He just liked the fact that all these hot women were falling for him and crawling all over him so at the last minute he decides he doesn’t want to be tied down to one woman.
He wants to play the field and ride out his fifteen minutes of fame for all it’s worth.


- Emily
Posted 12/03/07 09:50 PM
 

Brad is a jerk. He mislead them on his feelings for them.He obviously has been a bachelor for this long for a reason. He has a lot of growing up to do and needs to learn respect for a women.Personally, I really think this texas hillbilly has no class. DF


- Diana F
Posted 12/03/07 02:48 PM
 

To say Brad shouldn’t have let it go so far is silly. This was a TV show people and he was obligated to go to the end with all the drama involved. I do believe he saw nice qualities in each of the ladies, but I also believe he saw qualities he didn’t like. He was a gentleman to keep the things he didn’t like to himself and not blurt it out on national TV.


- Patti
Posted 12/03/07 02:34 PM
 

Why would anyone be upset? These women go there knowing they may or may not be picked. They take a chance. Anyone that truly expects to meet their soul mate on a reality show needs a reality check!!! Give the guy a break already!!


- Vicki
Posted 12/03/07 12:29 PM
 

Why is everyone getting so upset? ABC makes out like this NEVER HAPPENED. Did anyone watch Jen the Bachelorette? The one that got chosen by Andrew Firestone, then broke up She then went to do a series as the bachelorette and didn’t choose either guy.
This show is silly. I just watch it and LAUGH because it is silly.


- Jill
Posted 12/03/07 08:11 AM
 

I think Brad is missing the point. Everyone is not upset that he didn’t choose one of the ladies; it’s just that he expressed to his family he had feelings for both ladies and it was going to be hard for him to choose. If he had these feelings, then why or how could he just let both of them go without wanting to at least date one of them. That is what is so confusing to me. You don’t have to propose to someone to have a dating relationship. He shouldn’t have let it go so far if he didn’t have feelings for either of them. He is a good actor and should go to Hollywood because he sure did “act” like he really cared for DeAnna. But in all actuality, he did both of these ladies a favor because he obviously has some issues that need addressing. I feel sorry for the next lady he gets involved with, acts like he cares for and then dumps.


- Debby
Posted 12/02/07 07:51 PM
 

I think Brad had a great time and so did all the women. It’s unrealistic to believe he could find a soulmate/lifemate within such a short period of time. The pressure must be unbelieveable.
I am 52 year young Texas woman that thought that bad boy was so dang cute that I forgive him for everything he’s ever thought about doing!


- victoria
Posted 12/02/07 07:29 PM
 

he is lying about having her father flown in….on the final rose ceremony he talked about how he had him flown in and that just showed that it wasn’t planned just a last minute choice. i don’t think he is a jerk….he did lead them on, but he would have chosen one and dumped her later, just like the rest of them! none of them ever work out…


- lindsey
Posted 12/02/07 07:01 PM
 

Brad should not be crucified for not picking one of the women. Although it is entertaining to watch the show,I am sure it was stressful for all the participant to beexpected to love and be loved. Brad, IT IS NOT FINDING THE RIGH TPARTNER..IT IS BEING THE RIGHT PARTNER. To BRAD if he ever reads this: I respect you for not choosing. You do not have to give any reason.

Ennie H.


- Ennie
Posted 12/02/07 03:22 PM
 

Yeah right, Brad had no problem kissing and feeling up all the women probably sleeping with the last few when the show gives them that special “pass” to stay in his room overnight!
At the last minute he decides he doesn’t want anybody.
Good luck to him finding another woman that will ever take him seriously because they will be in total fear that he will say “I changed my mind, sorry bye!” and break their heart.


- Dana
Posted 12/02/07 02:33 PM
 

I think this show has had it’s run!!It’s time to come up with a new idea. All of these shows and only one marriage.What are these people looking for in a person anyway? It seems to me if 25 women don’t meet your criterea than something must be wrong. ABC this show is a bomb !!!!


- KH
Posted 12/02/07 01:48 PM
 

whether you hit agree or disagree it counts as an agree - they need to fix this


- Happypaws
Posted 12/02/07 06:48 AM
 

Brad addmitted that he ask ABC to fly DeAnna’s father out for frc. Chris comfronted him on national T.V. and he said yes! So now he is a liar!!!mmmm
:(~ Brad was feeling like he had too! chose one and in fact he did not really want too! He said he wishes that he had never done the show, and i can believe that!!!


- Angel
Posted 12/02/07 12:22 AM

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