Lauren Bushnell - Bachelor 20 - *Sleuthing - Spoilers* - #3

Fingersandtoes wrote:It'll be interesting to see Ben's thought process. What makes him decide to trust Lauren to be genuine and not Olivia. Initially he was attracted to both, he's made effort to bond with both. 

For me, if I was in his position there's one huge red flag with Olivia, that would make me doubt Olivia's intentions. Her leaving her job for the 1 out of 25 women to 'compete' for a man doesn't sound like a real plan, I'd think there was some other intentions too. But Ben seemed to appreciate this in Olivia, so who knows what makes him do this decision. (And yes, he's really attracted to Lauren and likes likes her a lot, but he'll have to check that anyway.)

IMO that's going to be the most interesting part of the upcoming episode. We know that he talked to Olivia (that's where last episode's cliff hanger left off) but (if spoilers are to be believed) he does not take the rose back and keeps Olivia - at least for a while. My speculation is that if Ben talked to Olivia about what he had heard about her then he also talked to Lauren B about what he heard about her - that's probably how Lauren knew there was an accusation made. There will be a difference between how these two girls deal with these discussions and that is what Ben will base his decision on.

Duke702 wrote:

AllAboutLove wrote:Lauren looks great!

Diana wrote:
@madisonzgrablich Bungs and Bach

I think it was actually just some fans that wanted a pic with her and Amanda. Amanda commented "nice meeting you girls" they look a lot younger than Lauren and Amanda, more like high school girls so yea

Yet they have cocktails in hand

From last week, Lauren was crying when she was talking to Olivia at the cocktail party about her behavior towards Amanda, the girls, I'm guessing:

@TheBungalow is a bar in Santa Monica.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/25495648/

http://www.thebungalowsm.com/

Lauren seems to wear that rope necklace a lot. It doesn't quite look like the Hope bracelet but IMO it's close.

^ like minds think the same.

Lauren and her necklace I was wondering about it as well

Ok , maybe not high school...but just look younger maybe just 21 or 22. Regardless, just saying Amanda posted "nice to meet you"

Lauren with a pig in epi 6, my scs

Aww, love those caps w the little piggies and Lauren's expression priceless. Lol at Becca and Ben meantime Lauren is all over the pigs

Lauren is so cute with the piglets.   

Ben and Becca look freaked out....if I cross my arms they'll go away...if I cross my arms they'll go away.....if I cross my arms they'll go away.....

I'd be cuddling those piglets too! I love how unafraid Lauren seems compared to the others.

Seabear wrote:Lauren is so cute with the piglets.   

Ben and Becca look freaked out....if I cross my arms they'll go away...if I cross my arms they'll go away.....if I cross my arms they'll go away.....

^^  
This is a fun side of Lauren we get to see.  She must be an animal lover.  Becca had the funniest line in the preview's, "I wasn't afraid of pigs until today!".

Lucas15 wrote:

veg_out wrote:It is interesting to me that TPTB introduced this type of "bump" into the Ben-Ren love story: calling into question Lauren's authenticity and integrity. That's a tough one to swallow. It essentially aligns Lauren with Olivia, this season's antagonist and villain, as two sides of the same coin: they're not who they seem to be. In the past, when this dynamic has happened, the person who is not the villain in the pairing is the F1.

At the same time, this whole scenario could have blown up in TPTB's faces: It could push Ben towards JoJo rather than bond him to Lauren. Now we'll start to see the hurdles that this couple will overcome to end up together.

I think it's always interesting to see the machinations of the producers in action. I'm not surprised they took this opportunity to throw Ben two curve balls that looked very similar and indeed did paint Olivia and Lauren with the same brush. It was up to Ben to separate fact from fiction and figure out what he believes and what he doesn't - that's the kind of drama they thrive on. It could have pushed Ben towards JoJo but IMO they really aren't there to bond Ben to Lauren - they would have been just fine if it pushed Ben to JoJo as long as they have drama to film.

However it appears to me that Ben ended up sorting this out and determined that the stories he was hearing about Olivia were "accurate" and the story he heard about Lauren was not; thus an obstacle in the way of picking Lauren was resolved, and Olivia exits in what will probably be dramatic fashion.

I don't see Lauren being shown as anything similar to Olivia, even with the so-called 'doubt' one clearly hears in the preview regarding Lauren being the same person as "I will vouch for that" and lots of support from the other girls not to mention, if the person is Leah she gets the boot in the upcoming episode so TPTB showing a totally different edit than with Olivia. Olivia has been mocked and TPTB has beaten one over the head that she is the villain. I don't think what was shown (and coming from Lauren's own mouth - so one didn't see someone else say that Lauren is not the same person in the house as with Ben but Lauren crying saying someone is accusing her). I think this actually makes audiences side with Lauren even more - because so far her edit has been the opposite of Olivia's and only because Olivia gets sent home this episode does it show that "Perfect Ben" makes the correct choices - send Olivia home and Leah too and keep Lauren. So I see it in favor of her.