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Their Love Is Dead: Shayne Lamas And British 'Bachelor' Guy Call Off The Engagement
Posted by Seth at 2:45 AM on July 26, 2008
It's a shocking turn of events anticipated by only a handful of the most cynical romance-haters: Shayne Lamas, heiress to the Lamas Family acting dynasty, and British Bachelor Guy, a reality TV contestant from England, citing irreconcilable attention whoredom, have announced that their engagement is off. What's more—and we urge you now to take a seat if you aren't doing so already—the two will be going their separate ways forever. From usmagazine.com:
"We tried hard to make it work but we realised that we were both heading in different directions," they said in a statement Thursday. "We truly care about each other and will remain close friends."
Engaged since the May 12 finale of the reality show, the pair have fought off breakup rumours since June when Grant, a global financier, moved out of the actress' L.A. pad.
"I never really moved in there," he tells Us Weekly in its latest issue, on newsstands now.
This news bodes not well for all other series franchisee couples: Anyone who tuned in to the tear-jerking finale—in which BBG dropped to one knee and, finally at a comfortable eye-level with Lamas, slipped an obsessively documented engagement ring upon her finger—would be forgiven for assuming that his swoon-inducing pledges of "I love you. Monkey. Will you marry me?" were nothing but genuine. We pin our competitive-reality-romance hopes now on The Bachelorette's DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak, praying that when the snowboard instructor scribbled "many years of whip creamy cheesecake" on a list of proposal talking-points, that he indeed meant every word of his decadent, strawberry-topped romantic pledge.
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Decebal
Posted 4:07 AM 26/7/08
"The Lamas Family Acting Dynasty"????
Shirley, you jest!
Decebal
Losin_it
Posted 3:58 AM 26/7/08
It's like any other kind of romantic fantasy. The money shot is always the moment they agree to be together. No one really cares about the details of the "happily ever after" anyway.
Losin_it
Old No.7
Posted 3:07 AM 26/7/08
I think Craigslist has a better success rate of couples staying together.
Old No.7
BowlingForDollars
Posted 3:07 AM 26/7/08
Oh, they couldn't make it work? It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Grant has a boyfriend now would it?
BowlingForDollars
ext212
Posted 3:02 AM 26/7/08
Aw that sucks. I actually liked them together! :(
ext212
beahumanbeing
Posted 4:25 AM 26/7/08
She is giving him some amazing Elephant Man Face with the way her head is awkwardly posed against his.
beahumanbeing
TwiceShy
Posted 4:13 AM 26/7/08
@BowlingForDollars: Hah! The first thing that came to mind was the blind item.
TwiceShy
derby
Posted 4:44 AM 26/7/08
shocked!
i'd love to see the contract abc makes these reality lovebirds sign. looks to be about a 2-month window and then they can fax in the 'break-up' letter to all the press.
the joke continues...
derby
TurdBlossom
Posted 5:23 AM 26/7/08
Well there's a shocker that I didn't see comming from a THOUSAND MILES AWAY.
@BowlingForDollars: Really? Time to get my gaydar re-tuned (then again it is hard to tell with some of those UK/Continental types)
TurdBlossom
franimaljones
Posted 5:34 AM 26/7/08
wasn't she the drunk one he kicked off in the season opener? guess the producers thought differently...
franimaljones
DrAftershave
Posted 8:44 AM 26/7/08
@Losin_it: i don't know what you've been watching, but the "money shot" in the stuff i've watched on TV doesn't equal to romantic fantasy.
DrAftershave
DrAftershave
Posted 8:41 AM 26/7/08
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*takes breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
DrAftershave
Losin_it
Posted 9:40 AM 26/7/08
@DrAftershave: The Batchelor isn't my idea of a romantic fantasy either, but a good portion of America takes it that way. Along with the annoying symbolism of the rose and all the rest of it.
Losin_it
DrAftershave
Posted 10:32 AM 26/7/08
@Losin_it: um, i was referring to the fact that the term "money shot" has been used for something else quite some time now.
Mods-please put my original post into the file "wisecracks that are no good now because they have to be explained".
DrAftershave
Losin_it
Posted 12:13 AM 27/7/08
@DrAftershave: Okay I see...when I originally used that term, I kinda thought it was out of place, too. Thanks. :)
Losin_it
dluvvly
Posted 12:38 AM 27/7/08
Isn't that 'Lo' from "The Hills?" And don't call me Shirley.
dluvvly