The Bachelor (season 15)
Finale aired March 14, 2011
Bachelorette: Brad Womack
Potential grooms: Emily Maynard and Chantal O'Brien

Kristen Baldwin wrote:
On Chantal: ''Chantal begins talking a thousand miles a minute, telling the family about how she fell in love with Brad when they got rained on in Costa Rica, and oh, by the way, they just 'talked for several hours' when they went back to his hotel room.... The ever-garrulous bachelorette (perhaps fueled by her Cougar Town-size glass of wine) chatters on and on and on about how she learned so much from her divorce and her heart is so open and yada yada yada, and eventually the conversation devolves into a lovefest with Pamela calling Chantal 'precious' and declaring, 'I can see you to the end, and I hope that I do.' Nice work, girl! You're mama-approved.''
On Emily: ''Day 2 in Cape Town, and let's be honest — Emily is already starting at a disadvantage, and not just because Chantal got along so famously with the Womack clan. First question: 'How did Brad do with your family?' Um, yeah, well here's the thing... I've got a 5-year-old daughter. And if that wasn't awkward enough, ill-informed Wes wants to know how Ricki's father would feel about her moving to Austin. While Brad tries to dive in front of the verbal bullet, Emily stands her ground and tells her sad tale with the same poise she's demonstrated all season. And with that, Emily's apparent disadvantage becomes her trump card, as Chantal's bubbly immaturity is thrown into stark relief against her younger rival's life experience.''
The Choice: ''I don't know who wrote Brad's proposal speech, but that person deserves a raise. Even though it looks like Brad's reading the lines off of the top of Emily's hands, it's still quite possibly the sweetest, most coherent few sentences ever to come out of a Bachelor's mouth. 'You're so much more to me than a leap of faith. You're the one, Em. You're it. You're my once in a lifetime. And so what I'm asking is this: I'm asking you to please give me your forever.' Okay, so the last part is a bit cheesy, but this is The Bachelor after all. Emily, classy (or, should I say, 'classy') until the end, doesn't even glance at the ring before saying yes. And then Brad issues his final overly polite command: 'Emily, come here to me, please. I love you.'''

What Happened Next: In June, Emily announced that the two had split up. Brad claimed that ''the demise of our relationship was completely my fault.''

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