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Most clueless ‘Bachelorette’ ever

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“The Bachelorette” has never been a show about the best and the brightest looking for love.

That’s not to say that choosing a husband in just a few months from a pre-selected group isn’t a formidable challenge.

But never in the history of the series there been as clueless a “Bachelorette” as Ashley Hebert.

Ashley, who’s ostensibly in the driver’s seat with 25 men vying for her affections, has heard — rather than said — “goodbye” a record three times this season.

She’s as cute, perky and bubbly as a golden retriever. And when she’s not husband-hunting, she’s finishing up her studies to be a dentist. So, it’s safe to assume that she’s a reasonably intelligent young woman.

Let’s just hope that she reads dental X-rays better than she reads men.

Ashley, who was flummoxed when her relationship with Brad Womack on last season’s “The Bachelor” didn’t end in a marriage proposal, doesn’t seem to have figured much out since he dumped her.

Starting fresh on “The Bachelorette,” she almost immediately fell for the man now considered to be the greatest villain in the show’s history: Bentley Williams.

Bentley made his true intentions known to everyone but Ashley in the first episode, plainly saying he came on the show hoping that Emily Maynard would be the “Bachelorette” and shamelessly talking about how he was eager to manipulate Ashley.

Bentley called her “an ugly duckling” when she wasn’t around. Ashley called him “the one.”

He then bailed on the show, claiming he missed his daughter, leaving Ashley to throw herself on her bed in a heartbroken, weepy heap.

For the next several episodes, she remained distracted by his departure and asked the show to bring him back so she could get “closure.” Bentley came all the way to Hong Kong for another chance to be on television and embarrass her again. Finally, Ashley figured out that she’d been duped.

It was then that she got dumped a second time. Mickey McLean left after Ashley revealed to the group that she’d asked Bentley to come to Hong Kong.

“If your gut is that he’s what you’re looking for, then send me home,” he told her before the rose ceremony. She left that decision up to Mickey, and he bowed out.

After narrowing the field to a final three, Ashley again had her confused little heart broken by brawny Constantine Tzortzis.

She seemed to have an inkling that he might not be ready for marriage but remained hopeful, saying, “My relationship with Constantine is moving slow, but there’s so much depth to it.”

He quit in a gentlemanly fashion, prior to spending the night with her in the Fantasy Suite, saying he just didn’t see them taking the next step.

“I’m shocked that he didn’t at least want to give it the time to see if there was anything there,” she sighed.

Ashley must choose between California wine maker Ben Flajnik and New York construction manager JP Rosenbaum in the finale tonight.

With any luck, she’ll be the one to say “goodbye” to one of them — not the other way around.