Who Will Be The Bachelor's Final Choice?

ByABC News via GMA logo
November 19, 2002, 3:31 PM

Nov. 20 -- Will he pick the sassy New Jersey gal that he canoodled with in a mountainside mansion in Aspen or the sweet-talking Southern belle he cavorted with in Hawaii?

Tonight is decision time for Aaron Buerge, the star of ABC's hit TV romantic reality stories, The Bachelor.

On tonight's two-hour finale, the 28-year-old bank vice president from Springfield, Mo., is set to choose between two ladies who have been vying to win his heart during the past six weeks of episodes. He could even get down on bended knee with an engagement ring and propose to the woman he picks.

But the big question is who will be offered the final rose?

After meeting 25 "bachelorettes," over the course of the series, Buerge handed out just two red roses in the show's most recent rose ceremony.

Who Gets a Rose?

One of the roses went to Helene, a 27-year-old elementary school psychologist from Gloucester, N.J. Cooler with her emotions than some of the other women on the show, she has also lobbed some tough questions to Buerge, who at one point said he felt "bruised and battered" after spending time with her.

Yet, Buerge seems to like the challenge, and has presented Helene with the first rose at recent rose ceremonies meant to allow the bachelor to pick his favorites.

But the bachelor also seems to melt around Brooke, the sweet 22-year-old college student from Albertville, Ala. In the most recent episode, Buerge said he had it all planned out that he was going to offer roses to Helene and Gwen, but once he got a look at Brooke, he had no idea what to do.

On a boat in the Pacific Ocean, Brooke tells Aaron he would make a wonderful husband, and Aaron tells Brooke he thinks she would make a wonderful wife.

Shortly thereafter, Gwen who Buerge said he spent the "most romantic night of his life," with was being whisked away from the Bachelor's pad in a limousine.

But it seems "the Bachelor" can be a little bit unpredictable.

"She came across very indifferent to me," Buerge wrote about Gwen in his online Bachelor's Diary. "I don't know if it was because she was confident that she was going to receive a rose because our exotic date went so well, or if maybe she had decided I might not be the one for her. I don't know."

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