BACHELORETTE HOST ALSO A FAN
share the area’s peace and natural beauty with.
Besides, she describes herself as an adventurous free spirit and this definitely qualifies as an adventure.
Lorimer concedes there’s no way to prepare yourself for the experience of dating so many people at once. In fact, she had never dated more than one person at a time before and had to learn to “compartmentalize” relationships.
“I never was able to do that. As soon as I like somebody, I just like them and I’ve got blinders on . . . The weird thing is before going onto this show, I had been saying to myself mentally, ‘OK, the next time I get into a relationship I’m not gonna put all my eggs in one basket,’ and so there was my ultimate eggless basket.”
Nor could she prepare for the emotional toll of breaking up with so many people with such finality in such a short period of time.
“It became difficult at the end,” she said (and no, she can’t tell us if she ended up engaged). “( Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants) always say ‘I never imagined it would be this hard.’ It really is like that and you can imagine but, until you’re in it, oh, it’s heartbreaking at times.”
So, yes, there will be tears. But Lorimer also says she woke up excited about every day of filming.
“I really did go into this wholeheartedly, and with the best intentions and with my heart on the line. I did not hold back and I think that the viewers will see that when they watch.
“I went through a lot of hurt through this thing, but I experienced so many good things and took so many positive things from it, and I have no regrets.” Read Debra Yeo’s recaps of The Bachelorette Canada Wednesdays at thestar.com/television. Noah Cappe isn’t just the host of The Bachelorette Canada; he’s also a fan.
Cappe, 38, known for series such as Carnival Eats and The Good Witch, has been watching The Bachelor/Bachelorette in the U.S. almost since the beginning.
“So, when the opportunity arose for me to potentially be a part of the franchise and be a part of the Canadian version, it was a weird kind of blurring of reality and work,” he says.
“It was an amazing experience. You’re kind of getting this free pass to peer behind the curtain . . . The first time I got to walk into a rose ceremony and say, ‘Gentlemen, this is the final rose of the evening,’ it was like I could feel myself in the television screen,” he says, joking that he start- ed practising the line even before he got the job.
And what’s behind the curtain, he says, is a lot of genuine emotion.
“I walked into some of those rose ceremonies and looked at the faces of all these guys. I mean, it’s real. You stand there in that room in that moment and you’re looking at a group of people who are unsure and who are scared . . . ”
Cappe has come out of the Bachelorette Canada experience as big a fan of Jasmine Lorimer as of the franchise. They spent a lot of time in conversation off camera, with Cappe offering Lorimer a shoulder to cry on when things got tough.
“It will be nice for people to see she knows who she is, she knows what she wants and she was able to stick to it, and that’s pretty impressive.”