The Bachelorette (season 1)
Finale aired Feb. 19, 2003
Bachelorette: Trista Rehn
Potential Grooms: Charlie Maher and Ryan Sutter
Ken Tucker wrote:
On Charlie: ''As much as I had been digging the way Trista had managed to project a complex personality in a show designed to simplify romance to a 'He loves me, he loves me not' pull-the-daisy game, I really thought, beneath her sexy-cool exterior lay...a cold, TV-guided heart. That, in other words, she would pick Charlie, the slick 'financial analyst' hustler.''
On Ryan: ''The melting-heart, poetry-writing fireman...was genuine in his awkwardness but also sweetly well-spoken — also a bore, thanks to the [editing by the] producers.''
The Choice: ''Holy mackerel: She picked the right guy! Unsolicited parting advice: Ryan, lay off the rhyming couplets; Trista, pitch your voice a tad lower in intimate moments. And all the best, kids.''
What Happened Next: Trista and Ryan became the first — and so far only — couple from the Bachelor or Bachelorette to actually get married. Their gift from ABC: $1 million for getting hitched on TV. Trista and Ryan's first child, a boy, Max, was born in July 2007.
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