Ali is the new Bachelorette
Ali Fedotowsky has been named the star of the new season of The Bachelorette.
The announcement was made during Monday night’s Bachelor finale.
“I’m so excited!” she told host Chris Harrison. “I am so thrilled and honored and grateful. I just can’t believe it.”
Told that America has fallen for her, she replied, “I feel so blessed.”
When she was first approached to do the show, she said she felt “scared. I realize I am not going to let my fear dictate my life anymore. I want to fall in love, have kids, all of that. I am not going to make the same mistake I made before.”
The 25-year-old Fedotowsky — a San Francisco-based advertising accounts manager for Facebook — was one of Bachelor Jake Pavelka’s frontrunners until she abruptly left the show to save her job.
On the recent Women Tell All special, she expressed regret for her decision.
“If I could go back and do it differently, I would,” she said, adding: “On my death bed, I don’t want to look back and say I didn’t love enough … If I knew what I know now, would I chose love over work? Yes.”
Jillian Harris, the intelligent, independent, passionate woman who fell just short of her goal — hoping that Jason Mesnick could be her best friend, soul mate and future husband on the just completed hit season of The Bachelor — will have her own opportunity to find true love, as the fifth edition of the female version of the ABC’s popular romance reality series premieres at a special time on MONDAY, MAY 18 (9:02-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
