CityFood Magazine - Bachelorette Beaus get Vancouverized

Back to less serious matters... Tonight, Jillian, The Bachelorette, will put her suitors through their romantic paces in a segment shot entirely in her hometown of Vancouver. So we swear, the only reason we will be tuning in will be see what local city icons get prime time during the show, and even more interesting, what local companies and their marketing teams successfully grabbed the opportunity to strut their stuff in front of the reality show's huge American television audience. We hear that Fairmont Vancouver Hotel scored big time, stirring up the testosterone levels by housing the 13 bachelors in one massive guest room suite (three bathrooms!), staging the pre-rose ceremony in the Morningside Suite, as well as arranging for plenty of other locations around the hotel to be used as backdrop.
According to Hotelchatter.com, other scenes include ... "a romantic dinner at Grouse Mountain Resort, a kayaking excursion to Granville Island, a romantic picnic in Stanley Park, and a Vancouver harbour cruise aboard the classic luxury yacht, Pacific Yellowfin, complete with a Dungeness crab dinner hosted by adventure travel outfitter Exposure." And then, of course, she makes them go curling."

It should be a two hour-long travel brochure for our city, but as the filming was all done earlier this spring our thoughts are ...uh, about that picnic...how was the weather?

How the world turns. It seems like only yesterday that Jillian Harris, interior designer, was giving us a tour of lighting fixtures and sink installations in the bathrooms of the now belly up Pinkys Steakhouse in Yaletown. Now she's a magnet for the competitive male instinct. It's just our theory of course, but it seems that the men's drive to score points against each other has more influence over the perceived desirability of the girl than the girl herself. And why in the companion show, The Bachelor, the man who is the object of all that likewise frantic female scrambling for attention, never really seems to want the girl he ends up with in the end.

"Never u mind", say's a practically minded, gay fashionista friend of ours. "Jillian honey, You don't let Tanner P get anywhere near your pinkies unless he's prepared to slip a pair of new season Manolos on them."