Rated R May Have Been Edited For Content
by Ryan Porter
Canada's bachelor ambassador to the world (yes! we have jerks too!) says shady editing distorted his sulky "Bachelorette" exit.
He's not bad. He's just edited that way. That was how
Justin Rego, Canada's contribution to Husband Search '10, a.k.a.
The Bachelorette, defended himself to Roz Weston on Toronto radio station Kiss 92.5 Tuesday morning.
Justin, a wrestler who goes by the alias Rated R because, I don't know, he contains adult material?, was confronted about having a secret girlfriend at home in Toronto while he was supposed to be ready to end
Ali's life of
Cathy-comic-reading misery.
"It's difficult to watch, because I know what really happened," he says of his graceless exit from the show. "I was so frustrated, and I so didn't want to give them the footage that they wanted, and ironically I wound up giving them almost exactly what they wanted."
His final moments on the
Bachelorette showed him stumbling slowly down the stairs, into the yard, and through some fairly thick shrubbery, all on an injured leg, as Ali chased after him. But he says that careful viewers will notice that he was the victim of evil editing.
"When Ali first sat down and confronted me and the guys, they repeated my reaction twice back to back," he says. "That second time, I was like, let me explain myself, it's not that, let me actually tell you what's going on. And she wouldn't let me speak."
In a statement on his Facebook page, he denies being involved with his supposed girlfriend, Jessica, who he was later snapped kissing in Toronto. Even though they played voicemails on the show of him saying he wanted to marry her, he says he's now single (rumours started by blogger Zack Taylor that he picked up
Jersey Shore's
Snooki at the MuchMusic Video Awards last month, he says, were incorrect).
He remains adamant that he won't be on next week's reunion special,
The Men Tell All, even though he told Roz that the producers have threatened to sue him. "They told me if I did
Men Tell All they'd put me on
Bachelor Pad too," he says, referring to an upcoming series featuring men and women from previous seasons of the DRAMATIC series.
But he had another request instead. "I'll do
The Men Tell All on one condition," he remembers telling the producers. "You tell me where those voicemails came from. Jessica swears up and down that she never released them. They said, even if we did get that information for you, we can't tell you. That's a big mystery where those voicemails came from."
Jessica and another woman who claims to have dated Justin, Kimberly, will be on the special, so maybe they can clear this mystery up. They don't have much time! People are going to stop caring any second!