New ‘Bachelorette’ Emily Maynard Announced on ‘GMA’
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ABC(NEW YORK) — Start filling out your applications, boys! Emily Maynard, a fan favorite from Brad Womack’s season of The Bachelor, will be the next Bachelorette, ABC officially announced Tuesday on Good Morning America.
“I think she’s America’s sweetheart and I think it will be a home run,” host Chris Harrison said on GMA.
Maynard, a single mom from Charlotte, N.C. who ended her tumultuous relationship with Womack, 38, last summer, has signed on to star in the eighth installment of hit reality show, which will premiere this spring. She will be the first single mom to star in the series.
Twenty-five-year-old Maynard quickly won over Womack and fans of the show with her southern charm, and emotional back story. Maynard lost her fiancé NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick in a 2004 plane crash, just before she learned that she was pregnant. Their daughter Ricki, now 6, was born in October 2005 and is the “apple of Emily’s eye.”
On the show, Womack wooed Maynard and then proposed to her in true Bachelor style, in the fairytale setting of a South African vineyard. Off camera, their romance quickly unraveled, plagued by distance and jealously according to tabloid reports.
Maynard is, “looking for someone who makes her laugh, doesn’t take himself too seriously and can be her best friend,” ABC said in a press release. “Emily is hoping that the third time is the charm.”
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