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The Bachelorette's Ashley Hebert will come face-to-face with former suitor Bentley Williams on tonight's episode of the ABC show.

Bentley, who had been a frontrunner in the race for Ashley's affections, chose to depart the Bachelorette mansion in week three, leaving a sobbing Ashley heartbroken.

He told the dental student that he missed his young daughter, but unknown to Ashley, he then told the cameras that he just wasn't attracted to Ashley and would have preferred the bachelorette to be Emily Maynard.

Ashley has admitted over the past couple of episodes that she is finding it difficult to move on from Bentley, suggesting that she needs closure with him in order to move forward in her relationships with the remaining men.

Tonight's installment of The Bachelorette will see Bentley flying to Hong Kong, the next stop on the around-the-world trip, for a reunion with Ashley, with the network revealing that a "shocked but hopeful" Ashley agrees to speak to him.

"Her mind is filled with what might have been, but will she discover in this very visceral confrontation that he is there to sweep her off her feet, or is he there just to play more mind games with her for his own amusement?" teases a press release.

Additionally, Ashley will share a one-on-one "fairytale date" exploring the streets of Hong Kong and having dinner on a junk boat, where her date reveals emotional details about his past. Another one-on-one date will take in Victoria's Peak Park.

This week's group date takes place at Stanley Beach, where the men are challenged to the ancient Chinese tradition of dragon boat racing.

However, ABC teases that the episode will end in "confrontational turmoil" at the cocktail party when the men learn about Bentley's surprise visit, with one suitor becoming "extremely distressed" at the news.
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'The Bachelorette' prepares for Bentley return
The Bachelorette host Chris Harrison echoed the news in a recent interview with TV Guide, saying that although the attention has been focused on how Ashley will react to Bentley, the drama comes when she has to tell the other men.

"She gets to this happy place and is almost a little arrogant and cocky because of it, but I don't think she thought through the effect it was going to have on the guys," he explained. "She didn't really understand it until our deliberation and all of a sudden things start to unravel in the cocktail party in Hong Kong."

He added in his Entertainment Weekly blog that what happens in Hong Kong will shape the rest of the season and potentially the rest of Ashley's life.

Look for erstwhile Penn dental student (and “Bachelorette) Ashley Hebert to be back on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” at midnight, where, according to a flack for Kimmell, she’ll engage in “an exclusive iChat interview ... after the newest episode of ABC's ‘The Bachelorette’ airs in which controversial suitor Bentley makes a surprise return appearance.”


(If something’s meant to be a surprise, perhaps a press release isn’t the best place to announce it?)


Kimmel, a team player whose work clearly isn’t always as much fun as he makes it look — guess that’s why they call it work — is said to be getting “the first interview with Hebert after the episode, as she shares her thoughts on Bentley as well as her feelings for the remaining suitors still vying weekly for her love.”

The Bachelorette had another decent outing on Monday, which gave ABC a win in the key demo (2.4 rating/7 share) and among viewers (7.4 million), according to preliminary results. The dating show posted a 2.5/8, up 9 percent versus its previous telecast. It also was the most-watched show of the night with 8 million viewers.

In turn, Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition got a nice boost: It earned a 2.3/6, up 15 percent versus the previous week, and 6.3 million viewers.

Fox was second for the night in the key demo. It ran a repeat and an original of MasterChef.

CBS aired comedy reruns while NBC had a repeat of America’s Got Talent.

When Bachelorette host Chris Harrison told us the men would unravel after learning Ashley had spoken to Bentley, he wasn't exaggerating. Not only did many of them get mad, but Mickey left the show. Although he thinks Ashley miscalculated how the men would react, Harrison also feels that they blew it out of proportion. Keep reading for more about this week's episode, including Ames' unexpected kiss and Mickey's "mistaken" exit, plus an update on Brad and Emily.

This week's episode finally felt like a true Bachelorette episode!
Chris Harrison: The show's starting over again, it's like we hit the reset button last night. It's the new and improved Ashley, who's feeling good. I know it was a battle [for viewers] — we were battling as producers, too, to get to this point. We would've wrapped it up with Bentley two weeks ago, but we had to let this play out in her own time. Now it gets good.

Was Ashley's conversation with Bentley much calmer than you expected?
Harrison: I think people were making so much more out of it before it even happened so that's why I kept telling people wait to see how it plays out. It wasn't as nearly a big of a deal and, in fact, it was more about her making sure she was ready to move on.

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She also seemed much less into him than she was the first time around.
Harrison: I think she was really happy that, when she saw him, she felt so beyond this guy. It reassured her that what she was feeling for these other guys was true.

Were you surprised about which guys were OK with Bentley returning and which guys were furious?
Harrison: I think you can draw a line and see which guys are more comfortable in their own skin, are more confident with Ashley and probably have a better relationship right now with Ashley. I also think the guys fed off of each other and got each other fired up. I think J.P. had the perspective, but her talk with him and his reaction really gave her this false sense of confidence that she came strolling into the cocktail party feeling like, "I can just tell the guys and they'll be as happy as I am." That was a miscalculation on her part. As much as some the guys blew it out of proportion and didn't handle it well, she didn't articulate it well and was a little cocky in the way she talked to them.

Bachelorette's Chris Harrison: The men unravel at next week's cocktail party

Did you think someone would leave like Mickey did?
Harrison: I don't think he meant to leave. He almost talked himself into a corner and all of a sudden he was like, "Well I'm going to leave." I ... don't think he went into that conversation wanting to leave or thinking he was going to leave. I think he was just trying to make a point.

What did you think about Ames kissing Ashley in the elevator?
Harrison: I think Ashley spoke for all of us when she was like, "Ames, whoa!" I'm so glad people are falling in love with Ames because he's a great guy. I knew he'd be one of the dark horses that at first people would wonder why she's keeping him, but I knew in the end he would definitely capture people's imagination.

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This season seems to be lacking in hot tubs and helicopters. Why is that?
Harrison: What's to come is sea planes, so I think what we had to do is cut our hot tub/helicopter budget because of the sea plane expense.

The next episode, airing July 11, features an update with Emily Maynard. What can you hint?
Harrison: We're calling them Bachelor updates, catching up with some of the couples. The first is Brad and Emily, and we've actually shot another with Ali and Roberto. If anybody is expecting "Jake and Vienna 2" then they're sorely mistaken. Emily and Brad very much love each other, very much care about each other and they're very good people and that definitely comes through. I talk to Brad all the time so I sit down [with Emily] and say, "This sucks doing this interview with one person and we're talking about a friend." As far as interviews go, even including Jason/Molly/Melissa this was the most awkward and uncomfortable because Brad wasn't there.

Ashley Hebert, star of The Bachelorette, has faced more than her share of heartbreak this season. Still, she's grown convinced that the remaining men are genuine, sweet guys who want nothing more than to sweep her off her feet and walk down the aisle.

But, with just a handful of bachelors remaining, Life & Style can reveal that many are not what they seem. Ames, 30, may have graduated from an Ivy League University but Life & Style has learned that he has been misleading Ashley with the impressive career title, 'portfolio manager,' an ex-girlfriend of Ames claims. In reality, she insists, Ames doesn't work in finance at all. "Ames never has real jobs," she tells Life & Style. "He just gets degrees and travels around."

Ames isn't the only guy betraying vulnerable Ashley. An insider tells Life & Style that go-getter Ryan P. is using her for fame. "He broke up with his girlfriend right before he went on the show because he told her he wasn't ready to get married and didn't feel like marriage was in his future," reveals an insider. But the entire point of The Bachelorette is marriage --the insider believes that he is using the show to promote his solar-energy company by constantly talking it up.

To find out more secrets behind the men on The Bachelorette, pick up the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!

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