Last week, after Jillian Harris kicked him to the curb without breaking a toenail, Tanner P spoke to the media from his hometown of Dallas. The teleconference call ranged over a variety of topics — most of them involving feet, as you can read here – but the most interesting moment came when he was asked about another bachelor. Ed Swiderski, as fans will remember, recused himself from the show in Episode 5 after purported pressure from his boss at Microsoft. A couple of things about his exit raised eyebrows, though: For one thing, he insisted on hanging on to the rose Jillian had given him; and for another, he was "too busy" to make the usual press rounds after his departure. Now, adding substance to my earlier speculation, we have the following exchange, coming midway through Tanner P's conference call.
An interviewer asks about his reaction to Ed's leaving. Tanner says: "Him and Jillian kind of had something a little special. You could kind of tell when Ed was around that her eyes kind of sparkled. So I was definitely shocked when he left. We were in the middle of Canada and he just pretty much said, "You know what? I've got to leave, I've got a great job at Microsoft . . . '" (Here we pause to offer Tanner a small geography lesson: Whistler, B.C., is in the middle of Canada in about the same way Dallas is in the middle of South Carolina. In other words, it's not. At all. Please continue.) "I don't see how he got himself in that situation. He knew he was going to have to be gone for up to two months so that was what kind of surprised me. But supposedly he comes back. So obviously there's something going on." (Back up for a second: Supposedly he comes back? And you're just saying it out loud? Boy, is ABC's publicist going to be mad.)
Suddenly the publicist leaps in: "We don't really know that for sure. We don't know that." "OK, I don't know that," laughs Tanner P. — and you can practically hear the air quotes. Could it be that Ed's the man last week's preview hinted at? The man who swoops in at the eleventh hour to sweep Jillian Harris off her feet?
Stay tuned and read the rest here.
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