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"It&amp;#039;s all come down to this. After weeks of bitching, backstabbing and betrayal, at last we&amp;#039;re at the Bachelor Pad finale, with just Chris and Sarah and NIck and Rachel still in the game. And considering everyone - from exec producer Mike Fleiss to host Chris Harrison - has been teasing that it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;disturbing&amp;quot;, we should be in for a treat! Mr Harrison&amp;#039;s here, anyway, all suave and smooth, to tell us again that we&amp;#039;re in for the &amp;quot;most shocking&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;most disturbing&amp;quot; season closer ever. First, we have to welcome back all the former contestants (including several you may well have forgotten about - hence the wide difference in cheer level) and get to see some best bits from the last few weeks...  Erica still doesn&amp;#039;t like Kalon, apparently Before we really get started, Chris takes the time to chat with a couple of the returning contestants (who&amp;#039;ll vote on which couple to give the chance to win the money). But it becomes clear very quickly that people aren&amp;#039;t going to be holding back. Lindzi&amp;#039;s gushing about her ongoing romance with Kalon - apparently he&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;really nice, sweet guy&amp;quot;. Still, we all know that Erica Rose is not the biggest fan of Kalon and she doesn&amp;#039;t keep her feelings hidden here, immediately telling Lindzi she needs to be careful because she&amp;#039;s seen Kalon around Houston with girls who are not her, including one at a movie premiere. Kalon asks who she was with at the premiere, and Erica replies that she was with her friend Natalie. &amp;quot;Are you dating?&amp;quot; Kalon asks, feeling smug about his response. &amp;quot;No,&amp;quot; Erica replies. &amp;quot;But I wasn&amp;#039;t rubbing her leg, either.&amp;quot; Oh zing. Things just got a little awkward up in here...  Michael has his say Michael&amp;#039;s the first contestant to visit Chris Harrison&amp;#039;s hot seat, and after checking out his time in the house, Michael reflects on his betrayal of Erica. Erica is naturally still upset about the whole thing, saying it was personal because she was betrayed by her friend. But does she regret the things she said to Michael when she left? Um, not really. The most that she can get out is that she maybe shouldn&amp;#039;t have said them at that moment... But the spotlight&amp;#039;s about to be put on Michael, who admits that he&amp;#039;s no longer with Rachel, though they&amp;#039;re &amp;quot;amicable&amp;quot;. Not according to Jaclyn, who&amp;#039;s wildly shaking her head! She accuses Michael of failing to respond to Rachel and of leading her on. Erica&amp;#039;s getting in there, too, also saying that she thinks Rachel was misled. Jaclyn announces that she was &amp;quot;duped&amp;quot; by Michael - he&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;complete phoney&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s not buying what he&amp;#039;s selling any more! Yikes! All Michael can do is mumble that he realised he wasn&amp;#039;t falling in love with Rachel so broke it off as he didn&amp;#039;t see a long-distance relationship working.  But he&amp;#039;s not the one coming off the best this time, especially when Jaclyn reveals that he called Rachel his &amp;quot;girlfriend&amp;quot; and said he didn&amp;#039;t want to completely close the book on their relationship. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s still very hurt,&amp;quot; Jaclyn announces. Oh. Dear.  Jaclyn - still annoyed with Rachel Jaclyn&amp;#039;s the next lucky contestant to take the hot seat, and she&amp;#039;s greeted with footage of Rachel&amp;#039;s betrayal, which saw her voted out just before the final. Jaclyn&amp;#039;s talking a lot about how loyal she is and how she&amp;#039;d totally have kept Rachel around - especially since Rachel was &amp;quot;best friend&amp;quot;. She describes Rachel&amp;#039;s actions as &amp;quot;unforgivable&amp;quot;... before saying: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s one of those forgive and never forget&amp;quot;. But their relationship &amp;quot;hasn&amp;#039;t been the same since&amp;quot;. Ouch! Plus, Jaclyn admits that she doesn&amp;#039;t even know who to vote for now - she might even go for Chris and Sarah! But here&amp;#039;s where she gets &amp;quot;bitter&amp;quot; (Chris Harrison&amp;#039;s words, not mine), as she insists that she thought she was going to win because she controlled the game, not Michael. &amp;quot;Your humility is fantastic,&amp;quot; Chris replies dryly. Blakeley takes the stage After getting some clips of the Blakeley-Chris-Jamie-Sarah debacle, Blakeley&amp;#039;s up to have her say. She admits that she never trusted Chris (which we kind of saw on the show, so fair enough), but then Chris Harrison wants to know why Blakeley and Jamie don&amp;#039;t get along (I always wondered this, too - they could have totally teamed up to take down Chris together.) Blakeley&amp;#039;s going on about how there&amp;#039;s no animosity, they&amp;#039;re just not friends, but it seems that Jaclyn is still stinging from Jamie&amp;#039;s brutal assessment of her in the quiz show earlier this season, so she gets involved - she starts talking about how Jamie is &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;very socially awkward&amp;quot; and how she doesn&amp;#039;t know how to communicate with girls. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t all need to be friends,&amp;quot; she announces. It&amp;#039;s all getting a little high school... (Also, at this point, I have to express sorrow for Ryan, as Jamie says she obviously didn&amp;#039;t want to partner with him. Poor Ryan.)  Declarations of love... and a proposal?! Luckily, there was also good stuff on Bachelor Pad for Blakeley, in the form of Tony! Blakeley actually gets super emotional as she speaks about the way she can be herself with Tony: &amp;quot;I feel like it&amp;#039;s too good to be true because I don&amp;#039;t know what I did to deserve someone like that.&amp;quot; For the first time, she&amp;#039;s letting her guard down when it comes to relationships. Say what you like about Blakeley, but this does seem super genuine as she talks about how Tony relaxes her, makes her laugh, and makes her a better person. Tony also gets to have his say, joking that he always had a crush on Blakeley but had to be super persistent! But the couple also have an announcement - they&amp;#039;re going to move in together! Everyone congratulates them (although, um, Jamie doesn&amp;#039;t look massively happy.) That would be enough for champagne, but Tony announces that there might be &amp;quot;one last thing&amp;quot;. He admits they&amp;#039;ve moved quickly but says he falls more in love with Blakeley every day and he doesn&amp;#039;t want this to end. &amp;quot;I want to show you so bad how much I love you,&amp;quot; he announces, as Blakeley looks around her like a massively confused deer.  Then, Tony gets down on one knee and all she can say is: &amp;quot;Are you f**king kidding me?&amp;quot; But when Tony asks her to marry him, she says &amp;quot;absolutely&amp;quot;! Everyone&amp;#039;s hugging and congratulating them - there, who says Bachelor Pad can&amp;#039;t be heartwarming? They might have been an unexpected couple but you can&amp;#039;t help but root for them - so congratulations, Tony and Blakeley!  The finalists return...  Look - Nick and Rachel and Chris and Sarah are back! First up, it&amp;#039;s time to talk to Rachel, who admits that there are some &amp;quot;unresolved things&amp;quot; going on. Yes, we&amp;#039;re talking about Michael again! She admits she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;confused&amp;quot; because he was really into her and she trusted him with her heart. And she accuses him of making loaded statements, saying things like he&amp;#039;s not felt this way about someone since his fianc\u00E9 (um yes, that does sound loaded.) Michael again says he wasn&amp;#039;t falling in love and didn&amp;#039;t want a long-distance relationship, but Rachel says he gave her mixed signals... and reveals that he came to see her in her hotel after she left Bachelor Pad and cuddled her and made out with her. Wow, Michael&amp;#039;s just being covered in glory tonight.  Plus, Rachel&amp;#039;s since found out that Michael&amp;#039;s in a long-distance relationship with someone else! Oh, ouch - even the audience members are shaking their heads. She&amp;#039;s very emotional, and Michael tries to explain himself again, but she cuts him off by shouting: &amp;quot;I know, Michael, we get it!&amp;quot; Maybe it&amp;#039;s best we move onto Nick. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s here too,&amp;quot; Rachel jokes. Hmm. Nick admits that he was in a &amp;quot;tough position&amp;quot; because Rachel was basically forced into a partnership with him and was still going on and on about how things would be way better if Michael was there. But he points out that though he stayed under the radar, he did also keep his hands clean the whole way through the process. I think he might be making his plea to the former contestants, there...  Time to speak to the other couple, now, which basically means interrogating Chris about his bad behaviour in the mansion. He admits that it&amp;#039;s been &amp;quot;tough&amp;quot; to watch, adding that his family have been... unhappy with him. He claims that the game &amp;quot;got a hold&amp;quot; of him and he never intended to hurt people. He says he thought he&amp;#039;d get over Emily Maynard by going on Bachelor Pad but &amp;quot;took the wrong approach&amp;quot;. I&amp;#039;ll say... Jamie even gets a cheer for saying that Emily was wise to see through him - &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think you&amp;#039;d be any great father for her daughter&amp;quot;. Yikes! The panel has their say It&amp;#039;s almost time for the panel to decide which couple to send to the final round, but first they get to have their say. So Jaclyn obviously confronts Rachel, who insists that she &amp;quot;fought tooth and nail&amp;quot; for Ed and Jaclyn. Nick backs her up, explaining that he just thought their best chance of winning was to be against drama-drama Chris and Sarah. Rachel even says that it &amp;quot;kills&amp;quot; her that Jaclyn isn&amp;#039;t sitting up there with her and adds that she still feels &amp;quot;horrible&amp;quot;. It&amp;#039;s getting very teary in the studio again... Time to interrogate Chris again, and he insists that he doesn&amp;#039;t regret any of his gameplay because he &amp;quot;came here to win&amp;quot; (Blakeley quite rightly points out that he kind of forgot about the panel&amp;#039;s deciding votes.) David adds that he respects Chris&amp;#039;s gameplay, but not the joy he had while he was upsetting Blakeley and Jamie. But Chris points out that he did change the game by bringing Erica into the voting booth, and suggests that David - as a gameplayer - can appreciate that. Sarah desperately tries to defend her partner, as Blakeley snorts: &amp;quot;Do you think he&amp;#039;d actually share the money if you were to get the votes?&amp;quot; As Chris keeps getting beaten on from all sides, he kind of breaks, apologising profusely and telling everyone to vote for Sarah, not him. Yeah, we&amp;#039;ll see if that works... it&amp;#039;s time for the vote! It all gets very tense as all the contestants write down their votes - including the twins (remember the twins?) who get one vote between them. Then it&amp;#039;s time for the rather unsurprising results - Kalon, David and Erica vote for Sarah and Chris, but everyone else goes for Rachel and Nick. Even Jaclyn: &amp;quot;I played a loyal game and I decided to stick with a loyal game.&amp;quot; So Nick and Rachel are one step closer to winning a lot of money...  Rachel and Nick make their decisions Of course, Rachel and Nick have a big decision to make now. There&amp;#039;s only one $250,000 prize up for grabs - but will they share it or keep it? If one person chooses keep, they get it all; if both choose share, they get $125,000 each; and if both choose keep it&amp;#039;s shared among the former contestants (I bet we all know what they&amp;#039;re hoping for.) Rachel and Nick were kind of thrown together, but Rachel thinks that she can trust her partner - they&amp;#039;ve formed an &amp;quot;awesome friendship&amp;quot;, apparently. Nick thinks they&amp;#039;re on the same page, too. But then they&amp;#039;re led off into private deliberation rooms by burly guards to make their decision. Exciting! We even get to see them pacing around a bit like caged animals. While they&amp;#039;re locked away, the other contestants debate what they should do - Jaclyn thinks Rachel should keep the money because she &amp;quot;deserves to be here a lot more than Nick does&amp;quot;. Ouch. David thinks Nick will be thinking about Rachel&amp;#039;s desperation to leave when they became partners, while SWAT admits he&amp;#039;d take the money and run! Michael, though, points out that they still get a lot of money if they share it and Reid agrees: &amp;quot;Why stir the pot?&amp;quot; Kalon starts claiming that Nick was a &amp;quot;non factor&amp;quot; in the competition, while Michael says Nick only got there because of someone else. But Nick and Rachel have made their decision... it&amp;#039;s time to bring them back! &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re a f**king schmuck&amp;quot; Rachel and NIck are back on stage, and first it&amp;#039;s time to find out what Rachel has done. She admits that she thought she was close to both love and money on Bachelor Pad but now she knows she&amp;#039;s not getting love anymore. She admits she came to win all the money, but &amp;quot;you can&amp;#039;t win a better partner&amp;quot; than Nick - she picked &amp;quot;SHARE&amp;quot;!  What about Nick? If he picked share, they each get $125,000. But if he picked keep, he gets the whole $250,000 and Rachel walks away with nothing. Suddenly, as Chris Harrison throws over to him, Nick turns into a Bond villain. It&amp;#039;s brilliant - when he says &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s really funny, and not necessarily like haha, knee-slapping funny&amp;quot;, everyone laughs. But as he continues, saying that nobody thought that he would win and no-one ever wanted to be his partner and nobody ever cared about his input, you can totally see the realisation dawning on everyone&amp;#039;s faces. I mean, it couldn&amp;#039;t be scripted better. &amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;#039;m an outsider and I got here by myself and I did this all by myself,&amp;quot; he says, pointing out that Rachel never wanted to be his partner and kept trying to leave, knowing that if she did it would screw him over (&amp;quot;You said Jaclyn&amp;#039;s words kept you here, not mine&amp;quot;, he says.) Rachel&amp;#039;s desperately trying to say it&amp;#039;s not true, but it&amp;#039;s too late because Nick&amp;#039;s made his decision, and he&amp;#039;s decided to keep the money all to himself. This is incredible. Reality show finales are often such a disappointment, but this is brilliant! The audience goes wild, cheering on Nick&amp;#039;s amazing gameplay - who would have thought it would be him? The past contestants are all baffled and stunned, as Nick stands up, looking pretty damn pleased with himself. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t even sit near you right now,&amp;quot; Rachel chokes, adding that Nick&amp;#039;s only there because of her. Unsurprisingly, he thinks he did it all himself. Now, what Nick did might be considered awful if you&amp;#039;re going by basic human decency, but then when has that ever been a part of Bachelor Pad? I do feel a little sorry for Rachel, especially considering her Michael heartbreak, but it&amp;#039;s impossible not to laugh at his triumph - who doesn&amp;#039;t like an underdog? And as Nick rightly says, no-one ever spoke about winning just $125,000. &amp;quot;Someone please punch him,&amp;quot; Rachel growls.  Rachel is genuinely devastated and cries a lot, but Nick points out that she never wanted to be his partner and says if she&amp;#039;d been willing to commit to it 100%, he would totally have split the money with her. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re such a f**king schmuck,&amp;quot; Rachel announces. &amp;quot;I am a f**king schmuck with $250,000,&amp;quot; Nick replies. Chris Harrison points out that Jaclyn said beforehand that Rachel should have kept all the money (incidentally, because Nick didn&amp;#039;t deserve it). &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t trust him,&amp;quot; Jaclyn says. &amp;quot;She deserves it, Nick didn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; But when Nick asks why he doesn&amp;#039;t deserve it, she can only say: &amp;quot;Because you don&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; Kalon points out that none of them deserve the money - it&amp;#039;s a game show they were all lucky to play, and Nick happened to win. &amp;quot;I did not give you enough credit,&amp;quot; he tells Nick. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve gotta say, man, seeing you pull the trigger on that - I&amp;#039;m so proud of you. Well played, man.&amp;quot; Kalon is totally loving this! Nick also says that he would have kept the money if he&amp;#039;d been in a good partnership, but Michael&amp;#039;s not happy with the way he&amp;#039;s gloating in front of Rachel when she&amp;#039;s so upset. &amp;quot;Then console her,&amp;quot; Nick shoots back. Ouch, this guy is on fire. And an audience member joins in, pointing that Michael wasn&amp;#039;t particularly sympathetic either in his treatment of Rachel. Jaclyn just wants to know why Nick is being &amp;quot;mean&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;short&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not being short,&amp;quot; Nick says. &amp;quot;This is the end of the game. It&amp;#039;s over.&amp;quot;  To be honest, I don&amp;#039;t suppose Nick cares if none of the Bachelor Pad contestants ever speaks to him again - he&amp;#039;s got the money and it&amp;#039;s not like he was BFFs with anyone there. (I guess it might sting that Lindsay Lohan called him an &amp;quot;idiot&amp;quot; on Twitter, but you know.) He basically just walks straight off the stage after the finale. Of course, Rachel is still fuming and tries to track him down backstage, leading to lots of shaky camera shots and badly lit confrontations (always good fun). &amp;quot;We had a f**king conversation about this,&amp;quot; she rages. &amp;quot;I know,&amp;quot; Nick replies. Oh Nick, you dog. She follows him around yelling at him to get his &amp;quot;f**king pathetic ass&amp;quot; out there and &amp;quot;man the f**k up&amp;quot; to talk to her. I don&amp;#039;t know what Rachel was wanting to hear, but Nick basically just says he made the best move and it&amp;#039;s Rachel&amp;#039;s fault for not committing to him as a partner. &amp;quot;Two days ago you vowed you would share this money,&amp;quot; she points out, as Nick beats a hasty retreat. &amp;quot;Oh, you&amp;#039;re pathetic,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t even be around you.&amp;quot; My goodness! Nick gets into his limo $250,000 richer and says Rachel&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;very sweet girl&amp;quot;. But: &amp;quot;BP3 - anything goes.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ll say! And that&amp;#039;s it for another season - with just a final shout out to the Bachelor Pad editors, the best in the business. They get their own personal sendoff with the brilliant final moments - a compilation of a bunch of times the Bachelor Pad contestants said Nick didn&amp;#039;t deserve to be there and was dumb and wasn&amp;#039;t playing a good game. Boy, is revenge sweet... "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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