Interesting info about new bachelor( no pic - sorry) Memphis Business Journal 5/14/2004Street Talk
Scott Shepard
Arthur Horne may be Memphis' next designated hunk. The attorney who's a principal at the Downtown firm of Horne, Gilluly and Wells was interviewed by casting directors from the ABC reality series "The Bachelor."
"They said they had received my name from a very close source," says Horne, who later found out the source was Commercial Appeal society columnist Michael Donahue.
Horne, who is 33 and has never been married, heard from representatives from "The Bachelor" about three weeks ago offering to arrange a private interview at The Peabody after an open casting call. He talked with casting directors in the lobby of the hotel before he agreed to a video interview.
"We had a good conversation and I decided to go ahead with the video," Horne says. "Now I'm just kind of waiting on word from the show."
"The Bachelor" follows a process of elimination as a single man narrows a field of 25 women. Through a series of elaborately sketched dates the bachelor closes the gap to 15 and ultimately the one woman who captures his heart.
The show is now in its fifth season on ABC, and has yet to feature a non-white Bachelor -- something Horne says the show's producers are looking to change.
"I think they are looking for a person of color this time," says the Germantown High and University of Arkansas law school graduate. "They asked if I would be willing to date outside of my race, which of course I told them I could do."
He thinks he can handle the media attention; it's pressure from his family that's on his mind.
"My mother just wants some grandbabies."
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