Now that she was picked, given a $35,000 ring, married on the air, went on a free paid honeymoon with new hubby, she says she is not an airhead and sorry she did it. She had numerous opportunities to back out prior to being picked, had to sign many wavier documents, she now disparages the whole process. Why did she enter in the first place? After the fact sounds too hollow.
Pas grande chose.
If the millionaire had turned out to be a good looking guy and didn’t have the restraining order 9 years ago… she probably would have stayed in the marraige a little longer. Because he is getting all the bad publicity she is trying to validate her reasons for marrying him. She says there was a lot of pressure from the show and she just entered for a lark! Yeah right. She thought she was going to get a JFK Jr. with Donald Trumps money! It just didn’t turn out the way she wanted.
That John Denver’s full of shit man!
You hit the nail on the head, Rachelle. What a load of crap is she peddling now.
Pas grande chose.
You missed:
A. Live chat with her on the net.
B. A couple other messages on this in the other forum.
C. Her many interviews where she said she did it because she wanted a little vacation…after all, she is a ER nurse, that is a lot of work. But would be nice to wakeup & see her face.
She did it for the publicity. The same reason he did it.
That’s my guess too. She got down in the slime with the show’s producers and other contestants and NOW she wants to come up smelling so clean and above it all. If she thought the show was so awful, it was, she never should have gotten involved. There are many other ways to take a vaction. She is being a phony about it, all the while reveling in the publicity.
Pas grande chose.
So she’s a skanky old ho because she didn’t want to live with a potential wife beater?
What was he, Prince Charming? (I almost typed “Price Charming,” that IS more appropriate.)
Yeah, everybody involved in this (except maybe for the janitor that cleaned the theater) comes out of this showing some poor judgement. However, I can certainly understand someone that has been the principal caretaker of an ailing parent for well over a year . . . who lost their beloved father in that year . . . . who works a very stressful job to begin with . . . I can see someone in those Ferragamos longing for something, ANYTHING, that would give her a break. Even something as potentially stupid as this.
Does that make her smart? No. Does it make her human? Most certainly.
Of course, to understand human, you have to have some humanity. Not everybody on this board is so capable.
your humble TubaDiva
Tuba, all the things you recount are from HER version of things. I saw her face when she was picked and she look like one of those blondes from Alabama that just got picked for Miss America, all shaky and in disbelief that they picked lil ole her. She was agog and in the spirit of things. There were many times PRIOR to that moment when she could have backed out, and she didn’t. She wanted the 15 minutes of fame.
I do have humanity, but I save it for REAL cases of woe.
Pas grande chose.
To the contrary: her husband revealed all the stuff about her family to the world.
In fact, he’s perhaps the only guy in the world to be entitled to stand in judgement of her and he supports her, pretty much. He says she’s a wonderful woman.
The fact that she made a mistake that makes her look like a total fool before the entire world, that she’s now tied to a man that is capable of lifting a hand to her, that her personal life is public news, that she’s been humilated and ashamed, that’s nothing for her to feel bad about, now is it? She got a dollar or two and a ring and a car and a trip, by your lights she should be grateful, huh?
your humble TubaDiva
Got just the show for you, “Who Wants To Be An Insensitive Idjit?”
I got the new issue of People Magazine with these two on the cover. The article was very interesting (well, it was to ME). Apparently, according to one ex-girlfriend, he is so cheap that he reuses Ziploc bags (ick!). And you know how they said she was a Gulf War veteran? Well, apparently, there’s no record of her having been involved in that conflict at all. I don’t consider “People” to be a real hard-hitting news source, but I thought that stuff was interesting.
I have no proof of course but its on very reliable hearsay that the newly-wed was fired from her position in the E.R. long before she applied to the production and secondly, it its said that she is or was a friend of the producer’s wife. If you want sources, I won’t give them to you but perhaps someone out there might provide supporting info.
To be ignorant of ones ignorance is the malady of ignorance
Amos Bronson Alcott
I see that People has the same great mix of unreliable “facts” and breezy opinion that has made it the #1 read in powder rooms everywhere.
(In the interests of full disclosure, I confess I worked at People for 3 years. I know what I’m talking about here.)
If I still worked there, one of the things I could have told them is that you didn’t have to stand on the sand to be a Gulf War veteran. To give an example, if your reserve unit was mobilized to go somewhere to free up another unit to go to the desert, ALL of you were Desert Storm veterans.
And ya know, “hearsay” is realllll reliable, the only reason this site isn’t called “Straight Dope and uncorroborated stuff we picked up on the street corner” is that it makes the business cards too big. 
I don’t know the whole story, but Ms. Conger says she was on a leave of absence and will soon be returning to work. Good nurses are hard come by and if she doesn’t continue where she was, she’ll soon be somewhere else.
Ya know, none of you guys have said a single word about the man she married. Guess he’s a solid citizen, it’s okay to beat women, etc.
your humble TubaDiva
Ms. Diva
You’re confusing the issue here, Tuba. It is not that she should live with the jerk SHE MARRIED on TV, but that she was part of it by her own choice and now wants to appear as if she is not. She didn’t have to go on national TV and be part of a group of women looking to marry a man for his money. No one raised the issue of character as one of the qualities they were seeking, only his million. So, who is surprised he turns out to be a shithead?
If you read the few posts above you will see that SHE is not exactly what she purports to be. I’m not surprised.
Again, she was part of it but NOW wants to appear that she is above it all. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
Pas grande chose.
I disagree.
Yeah, it can be said she was silly; apparently she thought the title was “Who Wants a Free Trip to Las Vegas?” But it ain’t the first time somebody did something stupid like this.
Let me give you another true life example.
A long time ago, I played in the band for a local beauty pageant; one of those “Miss Junior Whatevers.”
There was a little girl there who was an exceptional dancer; she was heads and shoulders and leaps and bounds over all the other baton twirlers and whatnot competing.
And she wound up winning the whole damn shooting match. When they announced her name, she screamed, literally screamed, fell in the floor, etc.
After the thing was over I heard that was not a scream of joy, she was furious; she had only entered to try to win the talent part of it. She wanted the big scholarship prize for winning the talent part, she didn’t care about anything else, she hated the whole pageant deal. Because she won the whole thing, they gave the talent scholarship to some runner up and she got to go on the Junior Miss pageant circuit instead. Congratulations!
Sure, look before you leap. (Literally. )Both these women learned there are consequences to every action, even winning ones. But I don’t think that makes either of these women witches with a capital b, either.
Basically she had a one in 50 chance of winning . . . and by winning, she lost. She thought she’d have a nice week in Las Vegas, make some new friends, get a Palm Pilot, go home refreshed, ready to pick up her life again, with a hardly worn wedding dress to hang in the closet. Life IS what happens when you make other plans. It might make her an idiot, but it does not make her a bad person.
your humble TubaDiva
Diva
Both women are, of course not, bitches but must have realized that you do not get to pick and chose what parts you want to be considered for and what parts you think you’re above. The person in your example was a girl, Ms Conger is an adult. I just have a bit of a problem in the "I’m really not the type of person to enter this greedy pagent " after the fact. Her explainations are too selfserving. Entering a grueling pagent is relaxing? Even you don’t believe that.
Her claims of being a Desert Storm Vet are false, it seems, too.
I do not want to vilify her but I do not accept her " I’m really above it all" rant now.
Pas grande chose.
Tuba-
The only problem people seem to have is her claim that she would never lower herself to actually be on this show…But she did…
When they had the last time to talk to him. She could have said “Listen, I don’t think this is a good idea. I don’t know you and I don’t really want to marry you. But i’d love to go on a cruise.”
But in reality she said " I want to be you wife, best friend and lover…" or something to that effect. If you act like a whore…then you are a whore.
and Rick Rockwell is pathetic, he was pathetic before this and will continue to be pathetic.
-Frankie
I’m a wholesale dealin papa, but I retail on the side.-Brownie McGhee
How so?
Maybe it’s a question of perspective here. What you see as “I’m really above it all” is what I see as embarrassment.
A possible change of mind update: That being said, how many times can you go on national TV and admit how embarrassed you are? I do admit I’m starting to wonder some myself.
Wait a minute. I haven’t seen THIS anywhere. In fact, what I’ve heard reported from both sides is that they made a good faith effort to get to know one another on the cruise . . . accepting that they were strangers, albeit married to one another . . . they found they really didn’t have much in common . . . and separated from that point.
If you want to get technical about it, they’re both a couple of whores in that they got married for publicity in the first place. Why is she the only target of your opprobrium here?
your humble TubaDiva
just curious.
Let me point out that when I talked about the “People” article, I mentioned some stuff about him, too. He has one ex-girlfriend who had a restraining order on him and another who says that he’s so cheap that when he took her out for a birthday last year, he expected her to foot half the bill. I’m not focusing on her. I think they’re both idiots.
Diva
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That’s valid question, Jenny, and I would like to take a stab at an answer. The reason SHE is the object of so much ire is because SHE is the one who is now saying how horrible it all was and how much she didn’t want to be part of it. It’s obvious that this guy is a shit, but she is trying to be too above it all AFTER THE FACT.
The reason she is not a “Desert Storm” vet is simple. She was not part of the storm. Example. If people fought in Tet, were wounded and spent several days in intense fighting, watching people die, and you worked in the PX in Haiwaii, would it be fair to call yourself a Vet of THAT campaign? Of course not.
Pas grande chose.
John, you have misstated the situation.
I hope someone who actually did serve their country sets you straight here, but I can tell you ONCE AGAIN that the armed forces consider people to be Gulf War veterans if they served in ANY capacity during the conflict in a direct or indirect way. That includes, btw, nursing. I don’t know where she served but iirc, most of the wounded were shipped to Germany. If she was there, she was, believe it or not, a Gulf War vet.
If her reserve unit replaced another unit somewhere else in the world and THAT unit went to the desert, everybody in her unit was a Gulf War veteran.
By your reasoning, everybody that served in the second world war that didn’t get to the Asian or European theater really didn’t serve. Wanna argue that one too?
your humble TubaDiva