Jillian Harris

Canadian interior designer Jillian Harris was a contestant on the 13th season of the reality series The Bachelor. Single father Jason Mesnick eliminated Harris as a prospective bride, after meeting her family and vacationing with her in New Zealand.

The Bachelor is a reality television show that houses 25 women together as they date and seek the attention of a single male. Each week one or more of the contestants are voted off the show in the part of the program called the "Rose Ceremony." In the ceremony, the Bachelor gives roses to the ladies he would like to have stay in the game and get to know better. The ladies who do not receive a flower are sent home.

After her appearance on The Bachelor, Harris won the star spot on The Bachelorette. The season began on May 18, 2009.People: Jillian Harris Is the New Bachelorette (March 4, 2009)

Harris and then fiance Ed Swiderski joined Jake Pavelka on the premiere of The Bachelor to help him make the right choice of which ten women to send home. They also planned to make an announcement of their own, but the announcement never happened. Fans believed that the couple might be breaking up, but they continue to deny the break-up rumors.http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/jillian-harris-ed-swiderski-aid-jake-pavelka-on-bachelor-premiere-10078.php

A site was been created on the Internet for the purpose of voting for Harris to be the next Bachelorette. When Harris was asked in an interview with ET Online if she would consider the role, she answered, "...part of me says, 'Jill, just go ahead and do it. You are an adventure seeker. Give it a shot and maybe you can find him that way.' I think I have to sleep on it -- and maybe have a glass of wine."ET Online: The Bachelor's Jillian... (February 17, 2009) Ellen DeGeneres told Harris that she should become The Bachelorette because "its free liqueur."YouTube Video: Jillian on Ellen (Time: 5:12)

Ultimately, Harris was choosen as the next Bachelorette on March 4, 2009 and on July 6, 2009, fans were relieved that Harris finally saw through Wes Hayden, and declined to give him a rose. She ultimately chose Ed Swiderski to be her husband, after a tumultuous finale, that revealed Reid Rosenthal returning to ask for Harris' hand in marriage.http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/07/28/2009-07-28_jillian_harris_chooses_ed_swiderski_in_the_bachelorette_finale_couple_still_toge.html

The couple later called off the engagement, according to '"US Weekly".http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/bachelorette-jillian-ed-split-201077 The interview in the July 2010 edition of the magazine revealed the split to readers.

Harris showed off her design skills on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and impressed the show's producers well enough to hire her to join the cast for the fall 2010 season.http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/06/14/jillian-harris-extreme-makeover-home-edition/ She admits that her new job is very different from The Bachelor. Harris says that The Bachelor was fun to do but is not really who she is. She adds that Extreme Makeover is more like her.http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/06/14/jillian-harris-extreme-makeover-home-edition/

Harris' has a theory that the topping a man puts on his hot dog tells much about who he is. She believes ketchup means he is an all-American non-risk-taking man. A choice of sauerkraut reveals him to be a much desired bad boy. An onion guy is not the marrying kind, but all woman want the mustard lover. Jason chose mustard.Yahoo: The Hot Dog Theory of Man (January 7, 2009)