RANT: Please Kick off the "Italian" Bachelor
I have not watched the latest season of The Bachelor. Why should I? The latest bachelor wannabe is a so-called "Italian prince" named Lorenzo Borghese. How can this be possible since he was raised up in Connecticut and New Jersey, and he still cannot speak enough Italian to order dinner at the Olive Garden. Besides, everyone should know that the producers enrolled Borghese in an intensive Berlitz Italian language course (ABC denies this of course).
ABC even claims he was born in Milan. Unless I see a birth certificate, he was probably born in the states, and not in Italy. If you check his records, he has been living in New Jersey for the last couple of years.
The "Prince" title is just for show. He does not have a castle or even a claim to some throne in Europe. He probably was not even using the title before he was brought onto the show. Now's he promoting a line of cosmetics called Royal Treatment Pet Care. Yep, great way to milk your title for dog grooming products. I believe he has lowered himself to even below Paris Hilton's stupidest things.
But we cannot just blame him for not even respecting his Italian heritage. The next $64,000 question is why these 27 would-be Cinderallas do this in the first place? For publicity? Trying to find Mr. Right? To find true love in a few short weeks?
"Prince" Lorenzo Borghese says he's in love. Bullsh*t.
He's thinking about marriage. Bullsh*t. He was busy flirting with all the babes at the ASPCA's Young Friends Benefit.
Honestly, do people think him and the winner Cinderalla will still be together after a year or so? Probably not.
Last, will someone please knock off the socialite. That's her profession, believe it or not.
Comments
Posted by: Anne
Posted on: January 6, 2007 08:15 PM
The title prince can be for a reigning monarch, head of a noble family, members of a royal family or a highly noble family with all descendants in the direct male line of descent from the person the title was originally conveyed on. Members of nobility are frequently seen as more significant than royalty from some of the petty kingsdoms that went out of existence in the 19th century.
I understand this young man has explained 2 or 3 times that the Borghese line is not royal but nobility. They are in fact Papal nobility, not to be confused with the Borgias. They became nobility when Paul V conveyed a title on his nephew in the 1600s. Some of the Papal nobility can trace their family lines back before Christianity to the Roman republic.