Chelsea Wanstrath, 25, came thisclose to making the final cut on “The Bachelor.” The Durango native was one of the last two in the reality series when Brit bachelor Matt Grant kicked her to the curb Monday night.
She cried a river on TV — but sounded upbeat on the phone this week from Santa Barbara, Calif., where she’s a pharmaceutical rep.
“I went through the emotions of being dumped,” she said. “But it’s like any other breakup. You gotta move on and get over it.”
It was looking pretty rosy for a while. Her parents liked Matt during his visit to Durango, where he and Chelsea played in the snow and posed for a vintage photograph in cowboy gear. And Chelsea’s competition was Shayne Lamas, 22, the diminutive actress- daughter of Lorenzo Lamas, a meal-away blond whom Matt called “Monkey.”
But Matt proposed to “Monkey” on Monday and sent Chelsea packing.
“He could marry her,” Chelsea said. “He proposed to her, so I suppose he should. Who knows?”
Chelsea has no regrets.
She had to lay low until Monday so people would think she was still in the game.
Now she’s ready to date again.
“It was intense and so much fun,” she said. “I made good friends and traveled to some great places.”
More TV ahead?
“I don’t think so. I didn’t do this to become a reality TV star. That’s not my career goal.”
More Marisol
Local dynamo Marisol is starting another chapter.
Her hit book “The Lady, the Chef and the Courtesan” must have kicked in the “chef” in her. She’s on board to be one of the celebrity chefs on Holland America’s Capitals of the World Cruise. She’ll be sailing and giving cooking demos to 1,316 passengers May 26-June 10 — showing off food as the boat docks in Piraeus, Kusadasi, Santorini, Naples, Civitavecchia, Monte Carlo, Marseille, Barcelona, Cadiz, Lisbon, Le Havre (Paris) and Harwich (London).
Husband Rob Simon will be in L.A., podcasting BookExpo America. Poor Marisol will be all alone in the floating kitchen.
“Alone for 16 days in the best cities in the world?” she says. “Terrible, isn’t it?”
Hairdos
Look for Blondies Salon stylist and “girly girl” Tara Nalty to trade places with “party boy” Enrique Cruz of Stylelabb in Dallas.
They did the switch a few months ago for “Split Ends,” a show on Style Network to air at 5 p.m. Saturday. The hook? Blondies is a swank style den for Cherry Creekers and TV anchors. Stylelabb is all-male and all Texas. Cruz says there’s going to be “lots of drama.”
City spirit
Amy McCarthy, Dan Hinote’s sig other, hosts a Little White Dress Party May 23 at 5 Degrees. . . . Sez who: “Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.” Garrison Keillor
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