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Holly Durst found it surprising that The Bachelor: London Calling star Matt Grant took her on a do-or-die 2-on-1 date after she thought they had pretty good chemistry following a previous 1-on-1 date. But so it went.

Matt Grant's reasoning was later revealed when he didn't give her the 2-on-1 date's rose, thus eliminating the 25-year-old children's book author from Suffield, Ohio, during Monday night's fourth episode of this 12th season of The Bachelor.

Holly Durst talked recently to Reality TV World her elimination and how she thinks that playing the "safe card" ultimately cost her any chance ...

Reality TV World: ABC billed you as a children's book author on the show.  Can you talk a little bit about that? How did you get into it? Is it your full-time job? Do you write under a pen name?

Holly Durst: I started to get into children's books after I left Ohio - I moved to L.A. - and I really missed the children I used to babysit for. I looked for a book to buy them explaining why I had to leave, but couldn't find one that was what I wanted. So I thought, "You know what? I'm just going to write one myself."

Holly Durst said goodbye to Matt Grant and The Bachelor Monday.

Reality TV World: Were you surprised Matt Grant chose you for the two-on-one date since he took you on a one-on-one date the previous week?

Holly Durst: Very surprised. Honestly I thought, "Maybe he just wants to spend more time with me and it's an easy way to get rid of somebody else."

Reality TV World: That leads into my next question - you seemed confident that you'd receive the two-on-one date's rose instead of Marshana. Why?

Holly Durst: I thought since him and I had spent so much time together - we had already kissed - and Marshana hadn't spent any one-on-one time with him, had not received a kiss. I thought for sure that I was staying.

Reality TV World: Do you regret feeling so confident and think you could have done more to show Matt Grant how much you cared for him?

Holly Durst: In the third episode, I got upset because I started seeing him interacting more with the girls. I hadn't seen that up until that point.  At that point, I started to put a wall up and I think I started to back away a little bit. I wasn't really into the conversations that him and I were having. It just got really hard. I was confident going into the [2-on-1 date] because I thought, "There's now way that I'm going home." But maybe I was a little overconfident.

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Actually, we know what Matt Grant was thinking and agree with him 100 percent. The exits of classless Kelly and immature Ashlee were warranted.

But you gotta admit, Kelly did her absolute best to stay around on the reality show, pulling out the big guns (literally) at the last second.

A lesser Bachelor star, like Brad Womack, may have fallen victim ...

In a time-honored reality TV ploy, Kelly hopes that her breasts will save her from elimination at the hands of Matt Grant on Monday night's The Bachelor.

He seemed like he was attracted to Kelly in the first couple of episodes, but had doubts as to whether they were a good fit. She answered that question for Matt Grant on this week's episode, giving him two definitive reasons. Oooga.

Kelly's plan to impress The Bachelor star with her (admittedly nice, but probably fake) breasts backfired when, in his interview, he simply asked, "Why do that?"

Classic.

The only thing better/worse than Kelly stooping that low was (obviously) Ashlee's parting song. She seemed inconsolable after she was dumped on national TV but hey, why not at least sing inexplicably, shilling for a record deal...

Matt Grant also eliminated Holly, but at least she just had no chemistry going and left without incident. Fame-obsessed, classless Kelly and Ashlee had no intention of going so quietly as their stints on The Bachelor expired Monday night.

These two actually make Shayne Lamas look normal. Or closer to normal.

On this week's episode of The Bachelor, the fourth of this exciting 12th season of the reality show, Matt is looking for a perfect match. As in tennis, people.

He also takes girls dancing. Matt Grant cannot dance. It's funny.

All told, there are nine women remaining, but only six of them will leave with roses from Matt Grant tonight. There's even a 2-on-1 date in which one will get sent home on the spot ... you can cut the tension with a knife in here.

How did our handsome and proper Englishman, Matt Grant, make his increasingly difficult decision and whittle down the field of women this week?

Did everyone's favorite gal Shayne Lamas make it? Or did she depart the way of Stacey Elza (a.k.a. spare panties girl) or more recently, Carri Perrier?

Find out in our episode guide to The Bachelor!

On the third episode of The Bachelor, Chris Harrison informs the girls that there will be one group date and two one-on-one dates with Matt Grant.

If a gal does not receive a rose on her one-on-one date, she will be sent home ASAP. Shayne and Holly got those one-on-one dates. The rest of the girls?

They have to go at it in a full-on rugby scrum. Yeah baby!

The drama only continued from this point on. Ultimately, it ended with roses given out to nine ladies, while three rejected babes got the heave-ho. 

How did Matt Grant make his decision and pare down the field?

How did those sexy one-on-one dates go for the lucky ladies?

Did Shayne Lamas make it or go the way of Carri Perrier?

Find out in our episode guide to The Bachelor!

Carri Perrier is unsure why she was axed by The Bachelor star Matt Grant during last week's episode - but added it doesn't really matter if he's sincere or not.

"[Why I didn't receive a rose] is hard to tell," she said. "I hope that his intentions are true for coming on this show to find true love. We're never really certain why we're attracted or not attracted to certain people. I'm glad that if I wasn't what he's looking for that he's pursuing stronger relationships with the other girls."

The 25-year-old church marketing representative from Oklahoma City was one of three bachelorettes who failed to receive a rose from the 27-year-old international banker during last week's The Bachelor: London Calling.

While she's a self-described "optimist" who "believes in love at first sight," Carri Perrier said she didn't get much one-on-one time with Matt Grant.

"I didn't [spend a lot of one-on-one time with Matt Grant]. In fact I really didn't get any one-on-one time with him until [prior to] the Rose Ceremony when I was eliminated," she said of her short-lived stint on The Bachelor. "I don't think that was a plus or minus - I think it was just the way it happened."

Carri Perrier doesn't fault Matt Grant for the lack of attention he paid her, but thinks there might have been a stronger connection if he had.

"Looking back and obviously finding out more about him through the press releases than I really got to find out while I was there, I think we have a lot of things in common," she said. "Both coming from large families and being the baby, those kinds of things definitely would lend themselves to being able to develop a strong relationship. But in the end it comes down to spending time with that person and understanding who they are and what they have to offer. We didn't get that opportunity [together], and I don't blame him for that at all."

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The former star of The Bachelor, Andy Baldwin, didn't need the hit ABC show to find his future mate. Well, none of the Bachelor stars seem to.

Since returning from a military mission in Palau, the naval doctor, 31, has been "quietly dating" Donald Trump's ex, Marla Maples, 44.

The two took a romantic getaway to the Hawaiian island of Lanai over Easter weekend, an inside source tells Us Weekly.

Andy Baldwin and girlfriend Marla Maples.

"On Easter morning, Andy and Marla helped kids at [the Four Seasons Hotel] search for Easter eggs and they had a great time," the source says.

They first met last year, says the source, and even spent New Year's together. Adds the insider, "He is inspired by her."

What's next, Tessa Horst dating Donald Trump?

On the second episode of The Bachelor, the first group of women receive their intriguing "date box" and find out that they'll be heading to a runway show.

When Ashlee, Kristine, Marshana, Noelle, Michelle, Amanda, Erin H, and Holly arrive at their destination, they find out they'll be the ones modeling clothing.

You know this is gonna be good from the get-go - and the drama only continued from there. Ultimately, it ended with many roses given out to the lucky ones, whereas several Bachelorettes received only tickets punched for home!

How did Matt Grant make his decision and whittle down the field?

Did Shayne Lamas make it? Who was this week's Stacey Elza?

Find out in our episode guide to The Bachelor!

Stacey Elza said she was "definitely that girl" - on ABC's The Bachelor who drinks too much and leaves the first night with a hangover instead of a rose.

"I'd like to say I think all of us have partied that hard - the difference is that I got caught on national television doing it," Elza said.

"It was a combo of nerves and not eating much that day. I started to drink a little champagne earlier in the day... I don't remember much. You guys watching the show was a surprise to you as much as it was to me. I was definitely that girl."

The 26-year-old graduate student from Chicago was one of 10 bachelorettes ousted by Matt Grant during The Bachelor: London Calling's premiere.

While in her inebriated state, Stacey Elza provided one of the show's top moments when she slipped a pair of panties into the British star's pocket.

"I just wanted to spice things up a little bit - put the attention on me, which I sure did. I'm very spontaneous - outgoing - I figured why not?" she told reporters, saying the move was something she previously considered.

"But at that particular moment it was on a whim," Stacey Elza said. "For the record - I know everyone wants to know this - they were an extra pair.  They did not literally come off my body."

The gesture wasn't appreciated by Matt Grant, who commented he didn't "give a s**t what country you're from... that is not cool."

"But that's okay," said Stacey Elza of Grant's reaction. "He wasn't my type going in, so I figured anything I do isn't going to hurt me any ways."

Continue reading this interview with Stacey here ...

The former star of The Bachelor, Byron Velvick, and his fiance, Mary Delgado, have moved past a 2007 fight that resulted in a jailed Delgado.

"We're going day by day, on our own time," the pro fisherman, 43, says of life with his fiancée in the newest issue of Us Weekly.

Aren't they sweet? Matt Grant can only aspire to such bliss on The Bachelor ...

Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado are one of the more successful couples to appear on The Bachelor. That's not saying a lot, however.

The pair, who got engaged after she won the final rose in 2004, are going strong in spite of a Thanksgiving fight â€" Mary wanted to stay out later, Byron was ready to call it a night â€" that resulted in Delgado being arrested.

Battery charges against her were later dropped.

You weather through stuff, work harder," Velvick says, "and you come to a better understanding if the love is real.

Adds Mary Delgado: "He's awesome."

It wouldn't be The Bachelor without thoughts from ESPN's Sports Gal.

Well, sure it would, but it wouldn't be quite as funny. Here's what she had to say the hunky Matt Grant and about Monday's premiere...

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The Bachelor started Monday night, and it was a competitive first show because girls were doing everything to impress the bachelor.

It was like a beauty contest for crazy people (like Stacey).

They always have one black contestant who makes it two rounds before she gets voted off. [Bill Simmons, aka ESPN's The Sports Guy] always compares her to Gonzaga because she's an underdog who never makes the Final Four.

Anyhoo, this year's bachelor is A HOT GUY FROM BRITAIN [Matt Grant] and seems to really like this year's black contestant.

Maybe she will make the Final Four of The Bachelor before Gonzaga does!

The other highlight from last night other than THE BACHELOR BEING REALLY HOT (or Shayne Lamas) was a woman with fake lips who got tanked, fondled the bachelor's knee and gave him her panties before passing out face-first on a bed.

I love this show. Did I mention that THE BACHELOR IS SMOKING HOT????