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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
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‘The Bachelor’ is bad
Reality TV strikes again tonight on ABC
Looks Like a Rock Star,
By Kate O'Hare
KRT CAMPUS
Andrew Firestone may be a
Californian, but he’s no laid-
back surfer dude.
He makes his debut
Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST, as
the centerpiece of ABC’s third
installment of “The Bachelor.”
From the beginning, the goal-
oriented Firestone had a plan
for the series that introduces
him to 25 women, then allows
him (and them) opportunities
to get to know each other on a
gradual process of elimination
that, if successful, produces a
happy couple at the other end.
“A lot of people that I know
have been introduced to their
girlfriends and boyfriends by
friends,” says the blue-eyed
great-grandson of tire entrepre
neur Harvey Firestone over
lobster and chardonnay at a
seaside Santa Monica restau
rant.
“Imagine having a friend
like I have in ABC, who knows
millions of people, who says,
'I have 25 ladies that I think
you would be interested in
meeting.’ I think I’d be foolish
to turn down an opportunity to
meet 25 amazing ladies that are
maybe compatible, looking for
the same things I’m looking
for, have the same sort of
goals, the same sort of out
look.”
After spending his child
hood at the winery founded by
his father and grandfather in
Santa Barbara County’s Santa
Ynez Valley-where he was
both an athlete and a musician
in high school-Firestone went
on to sell insurance while in
college, backpacked across
Europe after graduation, and
worked in institutional finance
before returning to the winery.
He now represents the
Firestone Family Estates as
sales manager, working with
his older brother Adam.
“I have these visions of
building the same sort of lega
cy that my father started,” he
said. “My brother and I have
put a start to that. We opened a
brewery; we started a restau
rant. It’s not tires, and it’s not a
huge winery, but it’s our
attempt at reinventing that
entrepreneurial spirit.”
“The Bachelor” also gives
Firestone the opportunity to
meet women who signed up
not knowing that the possible
object of their affection came
from a famous family.
“The First night.” he said, “I
was a little nervous, thinking,
'They’re going to hear
Firestone, and it’ll be the topic
of conversation,’ but it wasn’t.
It did blip on the radar, then it
went away. It didn’t mean any
thing to them to know what my
grandparents did or my parents
did. They wanted to know who
was this person who was going
to be there with them for this
whole journey.”
At the age of 28, it seems,
Firestone has decided it’s time
to settle down.
“I've had some relation
ships in the past that didn't
work out. It’s just been timing,
and I think timing plays so
huge into everything, especial
ly relationships," he said.
“I feel like there’s things in
my life that I had to be single
to do-travel, change careers,
move. So I made a point of
doing all the things I needed to
do as an individual, and I’ve
done them,” he said. "This
summer is when I finally said,
'Wait a second, there’s a
vacancy. There’s a gap in my
life. I’ve done all these amaz
ing things, but I’m not enjoy
ing it because I don’t have
somebody to enjoy it with.'”
“I’m no longer interested in
doing a short-term invest
ment,” he said. “I want a long
term investment. I want to start
building 'we' memories as
opposed to memories or
'me’ memories.”
At some point, Firestone
began to wonder about the
return on his investment in
relationships.
“I don’t know if it happened
overnight,” he said. “I mean, I
have opportunities to date
‘The Bachelor’s' third sej
starring Andrew Firesta
premiers tonight at 71
women. It’s like, how a
dinners do I want logo
How many times do I goto
theater until, third or fa
date down the road. I find
that they want to date me
my last name, or they an
actually wanting the sa
things I want, they’renotaai
ally serious about me,
want to have fun? Sothiiiii
chance for me to
ladies that have the sameima
tions I have.”
Asked if he ever thouglit
wasn’t worth all thisattenti
Firestone said, "The firstniil
the second night, the
night, the fourth night,™
night. I was so
being there.”
As to what advice he’d?:
other guys seeking true
Firestone said, “I woult
you can’t be cautious fall
love. You can't be worried!,
can’t look at the consequent
You have to go into it to
first.”
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