Where’s My Gay ‘Bachelor’?
When the new season of ABC’s “The Bachelor” starts on Monday, the leading heartthrob-heartbreaker will be Grant Ellis, a 31-year-old day trader from Newark.
Ellis didn’t make much of an impression as one of the contestants who came up short in the most recent edition of “The Bachelorette,” which made headlines last year when Jenn Tran became the show’s first Asian American lead.
But a man who doesn’t make waves is the ideal “Bachelor” bachelor. In a recent promotional trailer for the coming season, the drama didn’t come from anything Ellis did but rather from the predictably skinny female contestants in predictably beaded gowns who cried, predictably.
Ellis will most likely stick to his invisible script and be a stand-up guy looking for a wife “who shares his values of loyalty, humor and a deep appreciation for life’s simple pleasures,” as his cliché-buffet bio states.
