Lily and Richie always did look right for each other on The Bachelorette.
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Farewell, then, The Bachelorette. The long-running dating show – experts claim it began in approximately 500BC, others date it to pre-human times in the swamps of Eurasia – concluded on Monday night with happiness for Hottie Lily and Bachelor Richie. Loud violins burst into the room, quiet pianos whispered
sweet nothings; reader, I cried, as surely as the watching nation wept, too, as we witnessed love in the time of The Plague.
It was actually really beautiful. Good on them. Lily and Richie always did look right for each other. She liked him from the get-go, or at least from the moment he opened his mouth and a deep, dark voice rolled out from the ocean floor. God, that guy has a good voice. He should be on breakfast radio. In real life, Radio Hauraki morning hosts Jeremy Wells and Matt Heath speak in quite light, rather lispy little voices, but I've sat in the studio with them and been thrilled at how their tone and their timbre sounds so rich as soon as they talk into a microphone. Anyway, Bachelor Richie sounds like that all the time.
But it was also the things he said. A few weeks ago he came out with a speech straight from the heart. Richie said, "I want to meet someone and spend the next 60 years with them, have kids, live in a beautiful house – the whole package." Kin oath, mate. Oath.
He gave her a ring from Pascoes right at the end. He kind of ruined things actually, and said something really lame. "It's a token of the next stage we're going to take together," he droned. But Lily has spent the entire show being swept off her feet and jumping into the arms of this and that bachelor, and once again wrapped her legs around someone's waist as Richie carried her off into the sunset.
