I thought maybe I missed something - did I?
Did they show Jillian & Wes arriving at his family's home and him introducing her? Were those people even introduced?
There was very little family resemblance.

After hearing him sing? I hope he has a day job. I love country music, but he just doesn't have what it takes. He's not that good; okay for a local bar I guess but this cd will only sell to the local market where he is.

Wes did make quick introductions, the older women were his mom and stepmom, the younger two were his sisters. Regardless of the introductions, my point was there was no warmth in the room. IMHO, I've felt greater warmth from a fire being shown on my tv than Wes's family.
As to the value of Wes's cd, after seeing Wes on the show I doubt anyone would take one even if it was given away free. I've heard better singing from the cds that are the kid's toy in a Happy Meal. I think the only true value in those cds are as a substitute target for skeet on a gun range,

LAST EDITED ON 06-30-09 AT 01:01 PM (EST)

If those folks really were Wes' family and Wes turns out to be the jerk we think he is, then that pretty much paints his family with the same brush. After all, they backed him up saying that he didn't have a girlfriend. That's sick. For the life of me, I don't know what Jillian sees in that guy. I don't think he's the least bit attractive and he's not that good a singer.

However, given the trailers from next week's show, it looks like Jake did accomplish setting doubts about Wes in Jillian's mind and when he has that 'oops' and says 'my girlfriend' instead of 'my ex-girlfriend', let's hope that sets off red flags all over the map for Jillian. At least I sure hope so!!

According to The Hollywood Gossip website,they've uncovered someone is truly hiding a girlfriend, Ed.So it appears I was right(see my topic ED the fool, Wes the *ss )that what made Ed walk wasn't his job but a woman. It appears there is woman back in Chicago that considers herself Ed's girlfriend. According to the story Ed doesn't consider them exclusive and he expects her to wait til the show plays out to see where they stand. So maybe Ed left since he knew his family wouldn't couldn't lie about this woman if Jillian came to his hometown.

As to Wes,maybe he isn't lying. He said he doesn't have "a girlfriend" and he seemed to trip over these words. Maybe it isn't that he has "a girlfriend" singular but girlfriends plural. Or that he doesn't consider any woman he has sex with on a semiregular basis a girlfriend.

So what else would you call someone who would eliminate men who honestly care about you and would be faithful in favor of dogs- an idiot. Jillian I hope you wise up soon.

That didn't take long, as predicted here.

Anywho, Jillian is attracted to who she is attracted to, not who gets the best edit. While Wes appears a pig to the viewers, he clearly has something that Jillian finds appealing. Every season needs a villian, and Wes is it. I highly doubt she will pick him in the end.

As far as Jake goes, I still maintain that he is as dull as a box of hammers, and it seems obvious to me that he and Jill had no chemistry whatsoever. I don't think that Jill didn't believe his story about Wes, but geeze, could he have been less effective at getting his point across? Idonthinkso.

If it were *me*, I'd have kept that cutie, Michael. Talk about sweet and sincere! That kid is so adorable and will make a wonderful spouse when he grows up. (heehee)

I'm not sure I buy the gossip about Ed. Honestly, if his whole departure was because he wanted to keep his at home girlfriend, than why would he come back to the show? Even if he did have a girlfriend when he went on the show, how serious could it have been if he went on a dating show? Expecting these guys to be virginal when they sign on is a bit unrealistic, IMO.

This is the problem. Women go for the Wes's and Jake's of the world, and not the Michael's.

Guess which one I am?

I'm not 100% sure who has the issue with nonperformance since the person was somewhat shadowed. However, if the rumors are true that either Ed or Wes has a girlffirend, I hope that's who has the issue. I think it would be karmic justice.

As far as Jake being as dull as a box of hammers, I'll take that kind of dull 24/7. Something tells me he's the kind of kind who would be 100% faithful to whoever he married, just like Jimmy Stewart, the kind of guy I'm looking for and not finding.

My daughters have been watching this show. I've been trying to explain to them (without watching) that Wes is probably perfectly charming with Jillian. But he is definitely getting the villain edit -- which is consistent with the rumor that he doesn't make the final two.

Right, and I think that true is right too that all of the bachelors/bachelorettes end up hated in the end because people have their favorites and they get angry when the person isn't falling in love with their favorite only.
I do think that people's opinions of Jillian could turn around, especially if she cuts Wes next week. Our attention spans are short, and as long as it all works out in the end we can forgive her for being blinded by the smooth talker for now.
I'm looking forward to the Men Tell All. Catfights!

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Admittedly, we are drawn to some contestants moreso than others. It would be nice if the Bachelor or Bachelorette could see all that we see and maybe they would fall for the person we hoped they would choose. However, I think people are bothered this season that Jillian cut men who were falling in love with her in favor of someone so two faced,namely Wes.
I think it's also what we appreciate in Jake,especially in this last episode. He accepted Jillian's decision, but valued the friendship he hoped he could develop with her. It's obviously what drove him to come back to warn Jillian, clearly his protective big brother gene has kiccked into gear.
Who's to say how this eason will end? I just hope Jillian winds up with a good guy and that possibly if she does, it will last.

In Jillian's blog she says her family and friends are about to have her committed for keeping Wes around. At least she still has a sense of humour about it.

IMHO, I don't think we've seen the last of Jake. If he is the mystery proposer,as I suspect, and she accepts like I hope she does, then her family may forgive her.
I say the mystery proposer is Jake because that's the only way Kipton would wind up as the next Bachelor over Jake.

Since Jake appears on "The Men Tell All" and Reid does not, it appears that Reid is the mystery proposer.

Jillian kept Wes around just because she wants to sleep with
him. Sleeping with the bad boy may be one of her fantasies.
I'm thinking she has no connection with him other than a physical one - and she had to go through with the family visit in order to keep him around.
She knows it really won't hurt him for her to drop him later - he practically said as much when he told her they could end it before the family visit. It was obvious then that he doesn't really care for her - he just wants to get in her pants as much as she wants in his.

If (big if) he ever makes it big, she can say she slept with him 'back when'. And he can say he slept with a bachelorette.

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