‘She doesn’t know how fast to throw her clothes off’ | TV thermometer

In the previous episode, a game of paintball decided who could already know if she was through to the next round. From the winning team, The Bachelor selected three ladies that he knew would be allowed to stay anyway. Romy (or as colleague Eva calls her ‘Miss-can we talk about me’, or as my friends and I like to call her ‘Romy-enough about me, what do you think of me?’) and Karen weren’t there Bee.

Sporty spices

Barely recovered from the shock, the next ‘surprise’ (horror?) awaits them. Thomas enters the Hacienda before the day has even started and before the makeup has even touched the face. Let that be the intention, because he sometimes wants to see them without frills and without beautiful dresses. He wants everyone ready for a workout within five minutes. Let’s see how sporty the girls are. “Forget your make-up, just wear a sports outfit,” he shouts after them to make sure there’s no doubt.

Curious how Maureen gets out of this. She has not exercised for six years and she has never squatted. What? That first impression and her weakness for cowboys may well be on her, but don’t forget that Thomas is not averse to a splash of sports sweat. It has also been a while for Indigo that she has seen the gym inside. More chance for Romy, because luckily she is super sporty – we didn’t expect anything else, what can she not do?

After this group date, Indigo, Romy and Demi are lucky enough to catch up one on one with Thomas. But the real lucky bastard is Inge. As Tarzan and Jane, she and The Bachelor kayak through a Mexican mangrove and top off the trip with a glass of wine on the beach at sunset. Thomas looks back with terms that we are used to from him by now. “Maybe this is exactly what I’m looking for.” “He just came in.” “I am very impressed by…” “… something is starting to emerge that is really very unique.” I can already see the quotes coming, without a crystal ball and without having had any influence on a possible script.

Beach boy

Then it’s Linde, Karen and Merel’s turn. Linde doesn’t know how fast to throw off her clothes. Well, I get that. If I had a body like that, I would have walked the red carpet in a bikini. Not surprising that Thomas asks her to rub him in. However, that is not her greatest asset at the time. He literally says ‘I want to give you a chance’. That sounds like the next round is in the pocket.

Cocktail, cocktail

No episode goes by without a cocktail party. My favorite, precisely because I really can’t watch this without a ‘cocktail’ of feelings of stomachache and total vicarious shame. Quotes like “I seriously think Thomas and I are a match” (repeated 3 times), “did you know I once did a pole dance class?” The endless musing about whether or not to approach him. Thomas who also seems happy to take over the focus of the conversation. The jealousy that wins from wanting to give each other the best… It all offers me the ultimate reason to press the play button with this program once (or two or three) every week. The inconvenience! Addicted to the tension for whom he will now again play marbles from the game of love. The cards were reshuffled on the night of the rose ceremony. Those who initially thought that the battle on the red carpet was already won, is now groping in the dark and thinking aloud again.

The rosary ceremony – pam pam pam!

Although it cannot make Anne Noëlle feel safe to hear the words ‘no spark has passed’, she is reaching for the bull’s-eye. When Thomas has the last rose to forgive, there are three more ladies who crave it. To be honest, I don’t like to see Karen, Romy and Frederique all three leave. If only for the great entertainment and the ‘story’. Yet we say goodbye to the last two, who both have their own way of saying goodbye. And then Romy manages to hit me. She’s been entertaining me for the past few weeks by likes to be the center of attention, but all of a sudden I look at her differently. She seems so sweet all of a sudden and seems like a really good person.

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