The Bachelor's Hometown -- We're Spitting Mad ... This Ain't Podunk Junction
The Bachelor's Hometown We're Spitting Mad This Ain't Podunk Jct.
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"The Bachelor" star Chris Soules welcomed his girlfriends into his Iowa hometown, and they crapped all over it -- while producers made it seem deserted ... and now Chris' old neighbors are pissed.
If you missed the last 2 episodes ... 4 of the 5 final girls showed up unannounced in Arlington, Iowa for a tour that would lead you to believe everyone's fleeing the one-horse town. Stores were closed, Main Street was dead, and one of the locals slammed Arlington for being boring.
City Clerk Mary Jo Brown tells TMZ it was a totally unfair depiction. She says the town has a ton going for it -- parks, a community center, and plenty of job options.
Brown shared her laundry list of complaints about the production:
-- the use of ghost town music to hype the episode
-- one of the shops shown was only closed the day they taped, but business is doing well
-- producers didn't shoot on a weekday when main street is way busier
'Bachelor' producers had no comment.
Brown says she'd welcome Chris and the girls back to town -- and insists there's plenty to see and do in Arlington.
Now, if Chris would just give her a rose.