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The Bachelorette Season 7: Conference Call with Ames Brown

Posted on 07/21/2011 by Gina in The Bachelorette and Cast Interviews

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Ames Brown from The Bachelorette Season 7

 

by Gina Scarpa

 

This season on The Bachelorette, Ames was many things - classy, intelligent, funny, and warm. What he wasn't was the guy Ashley was looking for and after visiting his hometown and meeting his family, she decided not to give him a rose. Today, the portfolio manager from New York (who will soon be seen on Bachelor Pad) talked to RealityWanted and reporters in a press conference call about his time with Ashley on The Bachelorette.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: What qualities did you see in Ashley that made you feel like you could see a long term relationship with her?
A. Ames: She's pretty much happy about everything, I think. She chooses difficult things in life but enjoys them. I don't know. She also seemed really curious about things we were doing.

 

Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Watching the show back, were there things that surprised you?
A. Ames: I think everything surprised me about her relationship about other guys. I was just focused on getting to know her well and our relationship. I didn't pay attention to what else was going on. Watching it, 90% of it was new.

 


Q. You're definitely different than the usual contestant on The Bachelorette. Why did you decide to go on the show?
A. Ames: I guess I didn't really know I was different, well frankly, until it was too late. I guess if I am different, it didn't really work. Hopefully, there is someone out there to whom my differences appeal.

 

Q. Watching back the hometown date and seeing her time with the other guys, was there anything that you didn't understand?
A. Ames: I felt like we had a great date. I think one thing I really picked up on, watching the hometown dates, was that my progress with Ashley was much slower than the other guys but I didn't see that as a negative. I was trying to take our relationship slower because I wanted it to last forever. Watching this show and even in real life, we see relationships that move really quick and then expire just as quickly. I felt okay about it. She's someone that I really wanted to make something lasting with. I enjoyed taking it slowly.

 

Q. What did your family think of Ashley?
A. Ames: I think my family really liked Ashley. I had a feeling they would like her beforehand and afterwards, I'm still pretty confident in that.

 

Q. Your sister noticed there was a lack of spark and Ashley even wrote about it on her blog on People.
A. Ames: Yeah, that was rough.

 

Q. What did your family think of it all?
A. Ames: They were pretty morose because they knew that I really wanted to move on to that next week in Fiji. They were sad because they knew I was really sad. We had a lot of potential.

 

Q. Someone said you're different than the other guys. Do you know what makes you different?
A. Ames: You know, that's the only question I can say I don't know the answer to. I believe it but I don't know.

 

Q. You said that you felt like you were falling in love with Ashley. Do you think, looking back now that you have hindsight, that you really felt that way?
A. Ames: I was getting very close to it. I felt definitely like nothing other than feelings of love under the magnolia ride or in that elevator. I guess I wasn't in as much of a rush or I was unaware of the timeline involved and that got me in the end.

 

Q. Do you feel like she's made a good decision?
A. Ames: I know what makes me happy but I don't know necessarily what makes her happy. The guys she kept around to the end are amazing. I think she probably made a good decision in the end.

 

Q. Do you have any regrets?
A. Ames: I had a wonderful time dating her. I don't wanna sound trite, but she is amazing. It was very, very painful in the weeks surrounding our breakup or whatever that's called when that happened but I would do it again.

 


The Bachelorette airs Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.

 

(Image courtesy of ABC)

 


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