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The worst-kept secret in Dating Land is now confirmed. Two-time “Bachelor” Brad Womack and Emily Maynard have broken up.
“We’re no longer engaged,” Maynard told People magazine.
Just because Maynard and Womack are no longer a couple doesn’t mean we won’t see them on TV again.
Maynard will be the first to appear again, in an interview with “The Bachelor” host Chris Harrison during the July 11 episode of “The Bachelorette.”
Womack will not be a part of the interview, but he did tell People, “The demise of our relationship was completely my fault.”
The relationship between Womack and single-mom Maynard was rumored to be on the rocks for months.
The first problem for their relationship was the fact that Maynard was reluctant to move her 6-year-old daughter, Ricki, from Charlotte, NC, to Austin, Texas, where Womack lives.
And there was the issue of Womack’s uncontrollable temper.
“I would get so angry and would feel almost violated,” Womack says.
“I would keep those feelings bottled up, and by the time I had the chance to speak to Em . . . I would let that negative emotion come flooding out, and it was almost as if she was being attacked.”
Finally, although Maynard denies it being an issue, there’s the undeniable fact that Womack has a poor track record with TV relationships. On his first stint on “The Bachelor,” Womack made history by not proposing to either DeAnna Pappas or Jenni Croft in the season finale of the show.
On top of Womack’s many other faults, Maynard says she grew apart from him after she watched her stint on “The Bachelor.”
“Even when there were 30 girls, he still made me feel special. But, then, watching back, he had a tendency to say the same thing to a couple of girls. So I felt less and less special.”
For much of his second stint on “The Bachelor,” Womack was rumored to have chosen brunette bombshell Chantal O’Brien, leading many of the current crop of bachelors on “The Bachelorette” to think that they would be fighting for Maynard’s heart.
Insecure “Bachelorette” Ashley Hebert has spent much of the season getting over jokes her would-be suitors have made about being disappointed Emily was not being cast.
Now that the couple is officially kaput, speculation has already started about Womack returning for a third stint on “The Bachelor” or Emily starring in the next “The Bachelorette.”
ABC declined to comment, but said both Womack and Maynard remain under contract.