A Charlotte cocktail waitress and a UNC Chapel Hill graduate student will be among the 25 women vying for the affections of Ben Flajnik when ABC's "The Bachelor" returns on Jan. 2.
Blakeley Jones, 34, of Charlotte and Emily O'Brien, 27, of Chapel Hill will appear on the romance reality show featuring Flajnik, 29, a winemaker from Sonoma who was the runner-up in the show's last edition.
Jones, a native of Rutherfordton, has a long-haired Chihuahua for a pet and has tattoos on her foot, stomach, back and arm, ABC said in an online profile.
ABC said that O'Brien gets the season's first kiss, but as a "germ-conscious epidemiologist," she reaches for the sanitizer beforehand. A doctoral candidate who enjoys Zumba dancing, O'Brien also raps on the first episode.
Last spring, Emily Maynard of Charlotte got the proposal from second-time bachelor Brad Womack, but the romance didn't last. Kimberly Coon, a Charlotte marketing specialist, was sent home by Womack earlier in the same season. In 2007, Kristine Heffelfinger, a Charlotte fitness instructor, was eliminated before the final rose.
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