Farewell, then, The Bachelorette. The dating programme, an x-ray of the New Zealand male heart between the ages of 20 and 40, matched Lexie, the show's eligible marketing executive, with Hamish, described as "a travel
Steve Braunias: The Bachelorette finale - a matter of love and death
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No one is likely to remember anything about season two of The Bachelorette. Photo / TVNZ
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All happy couples are alike but every unhappy ex is unhappy in his or her own way. Quite a few of the contestants only came alive and showed they had depths of feeling when they were told it was over. Vaz cried. Jack cried. Jake and Aiden and Joe were sick as parrots.
Hamish, as the winner, was over the moon. Why was he the chosen one? "We just have something I didn't find in anyone else," said Lexie.
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Hamish put it this way: "What we have, we have." Language takes a dreadful hiding when we open up in a relationship. The heart has a reading age of about 4.
Good old Hamish. He'd hung in there. For quite some time it seemed Lexie preferred the company of other contestants and Hamish looked as though he might fall apart. Even when he was favoured with a date and kissed her, he behaved more like a friend than a boyfriend. But he got into a bath with her in last night's show and behaved a lot more like a boyfriend.
"I want to spend summer on a boat with you," Lexie said to him. And then the three words that mean so much: "I want you." Happy couple. Happy ending.