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There have been a lot of
controversial contestants on The Bachelor
franchise over the years but only one has been called out for being too happy.
The smiley suitor in question is TheBachelorette’s Ryan Park, who got very teary-eyed when Ashley Hebert sent
him packing. In a recent conference call interview Park talked about his
personality traits and the way his competitors reacted to him.
Despite the fact that he was
constantly being described as annoying on the show, Ryan admitted that
producers captured his essence. He confessed, “Generally speaking, they did a
fair depiction of what I think my personality is. Clearly, definitely, [they] overplayed the
giddiness… by showing certain clips when sure enough my little boy excitement
comes out. But generally speaking I
think it was fair.”
He added that there is more to him
than what was shown on television. “In Phuket Ashley breaks us up into two
groups for the Baan San Fan, the orphanage, and declared me to be the leader of
the group and J.P. was leader of the other group. And so we walk in here and we just all the
stuff to do. And, of course, I was being
friendly advising of what we should be doing because guys were kind of standing
around because I was supposedly the leader.
But that wasn’t shown on TV, which is Ryan bossing people around… That’s
a small example. Obviously they just tried to magnify that oh, yes, I’m
annoying. Am I real? But hopefully towards the end of it the
general viewer realized that, yes, this guy is.”
Ryan also thinks that even though
his competitors consistently called him annoying that they didn’t doubt his
intentions. He revealed, “I believe it’s
going to come out pretty clearly that they didn’t feel that I was insincere… I’m
just happy being, so to speak. And
there’s time when you’re sitting around after being cooped up weeks on end and
people get grumpy or unhappy about being in that situation. But I still maintained a positive demeanor
from early in the morning until late in the evening. And, yes, I can see how that can get on some
people’s nerves. I definitely learned a
lot about myself through that.”
In fact Ryan wanted to make it clear
that he’s a really likable guy. He remarked, “I have wonderful friends literally
around the globe. And never ever have I
ever been called insincere or ungenuine [sic] before in my lifetime.”
He believed that his personality in
the beginning was simply misunderstood. “There’s a little bit of that early on
because, I don’t want to call myself unique, but I think it’s just different in
that most of the time when you do see someone with a real happy outside or
whatever it’s trying to cover up something inside. And I definitely don’t blame the guys for
thinking that way up front. But those
gentlemen that were around much longer realized that wow the mask, the
proverbial mask, is not coming off of me.
And that’s just the way I live my life.”
As a result Ryan said he’s been able
to maintain many longstanding relationships over the years. He acknowledged, “I still have a bunch of friends that I’m in
still in close contact with from high school and in college. I have such amazing friends, many even
afterwards. And, yes, everyone knows
that I am very unique… at least those friends that I’m endeared for kind of the
just being happy and loving people. I
wear a big heart on my sleeve. And if
you just don’t resonate with it, then you probably aren’t my friend… There
could be some people like, ‘Yes, maybe this guy’s a little annoying or too
much’ and just don’t hang out.”
The Bachelorette season is over but catch Bachelor Pad when it premieres on Monday, August 8
at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. Central on ABC.
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