Bachelorette Emily Maynard is not at liberty to discuss her current status, but the single mom admitted that she did fall in love while filming the eighth season of the ABC dating show in an interview on Live! With Kelly on Monday (May 21).

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

Emily also tried to explain why she decided to try to find love again on national television after a failed attempt with Brad Womack. It’s all about love for this Bachelorette!

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“I learned so much about myself and I fell in love, so that to me is worth it,” Emily said. “I know it can work. I fell in love the first time and no, we didn’t end up getting married, but in the end just falling in love, for me, is a success.”

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So Emily fell in love, but is she still in love. More importantly, is she engaged to the guy she fell in love with on The Bachelorette? Who is the lucky guy? It’s safe to say, if Emily is indeed in love and engaged, the guy is one of the four lucky contestants who made it to the hometown dates.

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Before picking the final four men, the Bachelorette Emily Maynard, had the opportunity to spend some quality time with the remaining contestants in a series of very romantic dates in the beautiful city of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

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Bachelorette contestant Arie Luyendyk Jr., who is a professional race car driver like Emily Maynard’s late fiancé, allegedly had a romantic relationship with one of the show’s female producers, a woman called Cassie Lambert (see pic above).

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

Cassie and Arie’s relationship was long over before he came on the show to vie for Emily’s heart. In fact, Cassie is now happily engaged to another producer of the show, but the Bachelorette still feels betrayed because Cassie was involved in the selection of her potential suitors.

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According to Wetpaint, Emily only recently discovered Arie and the producer’s connection because she was not allowed to have phone or Internet while shooting the show. Emily is totally pissed!

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“Emily was shocked when she was told about Cassie and Arie’s history,” our Bachelor insider says. “She’s furious right now.”

“The sex stuff is especially upsetting. She’s not comfortable with the fact that this guy she’s started to fall for has already slept with her producer.”

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Emily has the right to feel betrayed. She was falling hard for Arie, who is considered one of the front-runners, and there was one very important piece of information that could have completely changed her opinion.

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Ironically, Arie is one of Emily’s final four contestants and he recently took her to meet his family in Arizona during the hometown dates. Another hot bachelor, another disappointment for Emily. Will Emily ever find happiness? Maybe she is looking in all the wrong places!

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During Emily Maynard’s first one-on-one date, we are introduced to a softer side of the 31 year-old personal trainer, Ryan Bowers, while the two share some quality time together in the kitchen in the second episode of “The Bachelorette” on Monday (May 21)- see sneak peek below.

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

Ryan and Emily’s date takes place in her kitchen – the two cook and bake together before Ryan has some sort of epiphany and realizes that that is what normal life could be like if the single mom chose him. Ryan thinks this idea is very romantic. Aw.

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“I get to bake? Awesome!” says Ryan. “You don’t watch The Bachelor and think that you’re going to be cooking, but I’m willing to do just about anything for Emily.”

“We’re hanging out in her kitchen and I’m thinking that this is exactly what life could be like if I was a part of her life,” he later reasoned. “I could step in and be a part of what she does every day. There’s romance in that.”

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Ryan was happy and Emily was certainly impressed by his skills in the kitchen. But it’s time to move on. Emily has to go on another one-on-one date with Joe Gendreau at the Greenbrier Resort, and a group date with the Muppets and her 6 year-old daughter Ricki.

2012 Bachelorette Emily Maynard Shocker: Doug Clerget’s Violent Past

At the end of the day, three unlucky guys will not receive a rose from Emily and will be forced to leave the competition. Who will be eliminated at the rose ceremony? Thanks to ABC, who accidently published the “Diaries of the Departed” earlier today, we already know who’s sent packing.

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Wow. Single mama Emily Maynard will be really mad at one of her bachelors, telling him to get the f*** out after she learns he dared to call her beautiful 6 year-old daughter Ricki baggage in an upcoming salacious episode of the ABC’s dating show “The Bachelorette” (see video sneak peek below).

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

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Kalon stole the show and earned his fellow bachelors’ disdain when he arrived at the first cocktail party in a helicopter. He certainly did not impress Emily, but she still decided to give him a chance to show his real self when she offered him a rose at the first rose ceremony.

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Emily might end up regretting it. Kalon will show his true colors by making some very unfortunate comments about Emily and Ricki. The other bachelors take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of the villain. Jef Holm is the first to point out Emily deserves to know the truth about Kalon.

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Doug Clerget ends up being the one to tell Emily that someone referred to Ricki as baggage, which leads a very angry bachelorette to sit down with her contenders to finally confront Kalon.

2012 Bachelorette Emily Maynard Shocker: Doug Clerget’s Violent Past

Emily asks Kalon if he has anything to say to defend himself against the accusations before pointing and yelling for him to “get the f*** out!” (see sneak peek video below). Do not mess with mama Emily!

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Bachelorette Emily Maynard has just begun her journey, but she is already set for disappointment and heartache. The single mom will be absolutely devastated when she discovers that her first impression rose guy, Doug Clerget, is hiding a violent past.

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

The real-estate agent won Emily’s heart with a letter from his son explaining why he was the best daddy ever. The two clearly connected over the unconditional love for their children, but what Emily doesn’t know is that Doug was arrested for assaulting the mother of his son with a weapon back in December of 2000.

Bachelorette Emily Maynard Gives Doug Clerget The First Impression Rose

According to Star Magazine, Doug and his baby mama had a heated argument that got physical when he allegedly pushed her and held her against a wall before grabbing a shotgun and storming out to shoot at the ground in their backyard.

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When cops arrived at the scene, the woman was scared and confessed she thought Doug had tried to kill himself. His girlfriend’s mother also told the authorities he had physically abused her daughter in the past.

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Doug was arrested for reckless endangerment, but after completing an alcohol/drugs treatment program all charges were dropped. The single dad claims he completely changed his life around and he now has the custody of their 12 year-old son Austin.

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Do you believe Doug is a changed man? I believe men can change. On the other hand, I also believe Emily should know about this incident to be able to make a responsible decision since this guy could be entering her daughter Ricki’s life very soon.

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Former Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky confessed to have offered advice to the new Bachelorette Emily Maynard before she began her quest for love on the show. The two Bachelorettes are friends, so Ali wants only what’s best for Emily.

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

And the best for Emily in Ali’s eyes is Jef Holm, the 27 year-old CEO of People Water who lives in George, Utah. Ali, who recently broke up with her fiancé Roberto Martinez, believes Jef is the ideal guy for Emily because he’s super sweet yet spunky.

Bachelorette Emily Maynard Gives Doug Clerget The First Impression Rose

“I am loving Jef with one F!” Ali told Us Weekly. “I just think he is spunky and I want to be friends with him!”

“She says she likes guys who are tattooed and a little more on the rougher side,” explains the newly-single Ali. “Jef could possibly be [a frontrunner] because he seems like he’s a little funky, a little different and I think she’d like that.”

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As for other contestants like race car driver Arie Luyendik Jr. and single dad Doug Clerget, Ali warns they better be prepared to become a father figure to little Ricki.

“Whoever ends up with Emily is going to end up with a kid. They need to know that and the great thing about Doug is that he has a child. He knows what it’s about and he obviously has a good relationship with his son based on the letter that he wrote Emily, so I think that’s going to be huge for her!”

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Will Emily find the one in the new season of “The Bachelorette”? And could Jef Holm be the perfect guy for the single mother? I secretly hope so…

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Bachelorette Emily Maynard’s contestant, Kalon McMahon, is a good friend of Bachelor Pad star Erica Rose. The two have a lot more in common than a simple bond of friendship. They both live in Houston, Texas and are set to stir controversy wherever they go.

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

Erica has been harshly criticized by her antics, even by her good friend Kalon. She confessed, “He once told me he didn’t like how I represented Houston on the show. So hopefully he can do a better job than I did!”

Bachelorette Emily Maynard’s Villain: Kalon McMahon Arrives In Helicopter

Kalon is the guy who made quite an impression on Emily and the other contestants, albeit not exactly a good one, when he arrived in a helicopter. The obnoxious model/brand consultant will also soon piss off the Bachelorette by putting his big foot in his mouth.

Bachelorette Emily Maynard Gives Doug Clerget The First Impression Rose

So Kalon criticizing Erica for her antics seems like a good case of the pot calling the kettle black. Despite Kalon’s irascible behavior, Erica believes Emily might fall in love with him. “I think that there is a possibility of a romance developing between them — they both like the finer things in life,” she said.

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When pigs fly and hell freezes over!

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Remember Bentley Williams? The 28 year-old investment banker who did not even attempt to hide his disappointment when he arrived at the Bachelorette mansion to find out he would be vying for the heart of Ashley Hebert and not Emily Maynard on the seventh season of “The Bachelorette.”

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

Could Bentley be back to try to conquer Emily’s heart? Never say never, but it’s not likely since the new Bachelorette herself is not exactly a fan of “Bad News Bentley,” who became the villain of the last season of the ABC’s dating show.

In fact, Emily confessed that when her contestant Kalon McMahon made his big entrance in a helicopter she feared it might have been Bentley or worse… her former fiancé Brad Womack.

Bachelorette Emily Maynard’s Villain: Kalon McMahon Arrives In Helicopter

“I definitely thought it was going to be Brad or Bentley getting out of the helicopter,” she revealed. “I just thought there is no way some random guy would make an entrance so gigantic. I was stressing out a little bit to be honest, waiting for whomever to get out of the helicopter.”

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“I don’t know how I would have reacted to be honest,” Emily said. “I tried to stay open to everything and I’m just really glad that everybody I met the first night was a fresh face and someone that I had never met before.”

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Fortunately or unfortunately, Bentley and Brad did not arrive to try to sweep Emily off her feet, instead she met a brand new villain known as obnoxious Kalon, who is set to bring the bachelorette a lot of headaches and heartaches in the future.

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Former Bachelor Brad Womack seems a tiny bit bitter about his ex-fiance Emily Maynard appearing on The Bachelorette.

The Texas bar owner, who proposed to Maynard at the end of the 2011 season, told a local news station he won’t be watching his ex on the ABC reality show. ”All I’ll say is she is a helluva woman and I hope it works out,” Womack, 38, said. “I have no interest [in watching].”

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

“I think I dodged a bullet with that relationship,” Womack said about his relationship with single mom Maynard, 26.

But Maynard didn’t seem too bothered by the statements. She Tweeted Thursday: ”I’m sure they accidentally cut off the part where he said it was a diamond encrusted bullet of course!”

Touche, Maynard.

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A “luxury brand consultant” named Kalon McMahon put himself on top of his fellow bachelors’ most hated list when he showed up in a helicopter to meet Emily Maynard at the first cocktail party during the premiere of The Bachelorette season 8 with Emily Maynard.

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

Kalon introduced himself: “I’m a young, fun, good-looking guy with a few dollars in my pocket. I can wine, I can dine — I am the modern Southern gentleman.”

The Donald Trump wannabe also described himself as extremely loud, obnoxious and a womanizer, but that was before he decided to completely change his life. The guy is snob, cocky and most likely no good for Emily, which is why she is, of course, drawn to him.

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The guys absolutely loathe Kalon. The chopper stunt did not really impress Emily, while the other guys are absolutely disgusted and jealous of his big entrance. They bonded over their hatred for Kalon and immediately agreed he should not get a rose. However, Kalon managed to impress Emily during their time alone.

Bachelorette Emily Maynard Gives Doug Clerget The First Impression Rose

The first impression rose went to Doug Clerget, but Kalon still thinks he is a winner, saying, “I’ll at least get a rose, and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters.” Yep! It seems like everything is set up for Kalon to become the big villain of the season.

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Single dad Doug Clerget and Emily Maynard quickly connected over the unconditional love for their children as he arrived at the cocktail party with a special message from his 12 year-old son Austin during The Bachelorette season 8 premiere on Monday (May 14).

2012 Bachelorette: Emily Maynard’s 25 Guys (Bios, PHOTOS)

The 33 year-old insisted on reading the letter from his son to Emily. It was a super sweet and simple gesture that might have earned him the first impression rose. In the letter, the kid told Emily his dad is the best dad in the whole world because he always tucks him in at night.

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Emily was so touched that she confessed she could tell Doug is a wonderful daddy by that letter alone. Nevermind the contestant probably forced or bribed his kid to write it. Anyhow, I was touched. Doug is a hottie! And he seems to be pretty good with kids. Who could ever resist?

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At the first rose ceremony, Emily admitted she felt really comfortable with Doug and handled him the first impression rose to the dismay of the other bachelors, who were just happy villain Kalon McMalon didn’t get it. This promises to be an interesting season.

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