Bachelorette's Jillian Goes to Fashion Week Without Ed
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Bachelorette Jillian Harris hit the first day of NYC's Fashion Week — without fiance Ed Swiderski.
She attended Thursday's Rosa Cha fashion show with Mike Steinberg, the New York-based baseball camp owner whom she eliminated in episode four of the ABC show.
"Ed was supposed to be here today, but then he couldn't book his flight," Harris, 29, told E! News. "Ed and he have been really good friends since the show. So Ed's like, 'You know what, why don't you have Steinberg sit in for me? That'll make some great news.'"
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"We want to try to live a normal life and get to the point where we live together and start to come together and then start planning," she said.
As the new issue of Us Weekly reports, the Canada-born Harris is moving into Swiderski's Chicago apartment next week.
"We want everybody to know we are extremely happy and in love," Swiderski, 30, said on Thursday's Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Added Jillian, "This engagement is very different than a typical engagement. As my father said, 'Jill, you are not walking down the aisle.' We are living together, adopting a dog, working charities together and attending family functions. Now we are trying to work at [our relationship at a] more normal level."
Although Swiderski did not directly address Us Weekly's report that he had cheated on Harris with two women, he admitted that "in every sense of the word, I was a bachelor before I went on the show, but I am not perfect. I am a human being."
He also played coy when asked why exes Lindsey Johnson and Bethany Steffen would speak out about his behavior. (Just eight days after he proposed to Jillian, Johnson told Us Weekly she slept with Swiderski. A day later, he texted Steffen to "bring beer and condoms" to his place.)
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"I don't know what motivates someone to do something like that," he said. "I did have dialogue with these women and I know them pretty well. I don't know what caused that."
Said Swiderski, "Jillian is one of the most intelligent women I know. I highly doubt that she would be with someone who is not a good person. We are very clear with each other. We know the truth of what happened."
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46"Couldn't book a flight?" Is that what they're calling it now???
"Couldn't book a flight?" Is that what they're calling it now???
oh my gosh!!! when did Ed become a sex addict? I guess ur one of his victims then, this just BS. I just got to believe ur nuts, seriously u need ur head to be examined. go see a shrink. how does that fit in there. the guy dated one girl broke up with her and started dating another, but the first girl winds her way back in his life and get caught up in a sort of a tangled and u are claiming he is sex addict. u need to be put in a mental hospital, seriously.
Jill, Maybe you should go out with Mike the baseball camp owner. I liked him.
Ed has an inferiority complex, and that drives his need to bed any woman who will give him a second look. Ed has perfected his 'nice guy' persona -- knows how to listen to women, pretend to be sensitive, spends money on them and is quite intelligent. But, he is all about himself. He feels inferior, and tries to prove to himself that he is a desirable stud by bedding as many women as possible. It also helps him from getting too emotionally attached to one woman -- he always has another one waiting in the wings. Even without him being the PIG he is, the odds are so against any of these bachelor/bachelorette couples making it to marriage. This whole pairing is a fiasco, and they should both cut bait and leave. They will end-up living together for probably less than a year, and during that time they will grow increasingly miserable -- Jillian will be wondering if she did the right thing and will find herself unable to fully trust him when they are apart. Ed will not be able to fight his addiction to sex â?? once a CHEATER always a CHEATER. It's so sad that they seem to be destined -- or doomed -- for the next twelve months or so of misery. I do hate to be so harsh, but Jillian invited us on this journey with her. She seems like a sincere kind loving beautiful smart woman. Her family is delightful and they love her dearly. I can only imagine the pressure she is under to make a go of this charade. Too often, women in her situation are more concerned with hurting another's feelings (like ED's) than doing what they know is best for them. It's not like she and Ed would be the first reality TV couple to break-up. And, she had a whole bevy of proposals at the end -- like THREE -- and set a record.. The problems she and Ed face are a result of HIS despicable behavior â?? she didnâ??t do anything wrong. Who knows, maybe sheâ??ll end up finding the true love of her life while sheâ??s in Chicago -- as a result of this whole TV reality fairytale show. Sheâ??ll be able to look back on all of this in ten years and be so happy with her life and know she couldnâ??t have made it without all the Bachelorette drama. She really does deserve true happiness.
More proof of why i LOVED Kiptyn.
you they say never say never, so for it is we live to see.and I know they will last.yes he played around so what? how many men didn't do that b4 they settled down.sorry if u've been cheated on can't forgive. so probably u settled for someone bad in the sack. I wouldn't. faking it is way different from a man bad in sack. get it straight.and you are contradicting urselve.first he is bad in the sack as u put it now he was sleeping around with the girls. so which is which. girl get some life and you get the clue cos you don't seem to know what u are talking about.
Jillian and Ed will never last. There will ALWAYS be controversy surrounding them because of HIS behavior -- no excuse to sleep with someone else AFTER getting engaged. And then stringing along those two women back home. All the men on The Bachelorette knew about each other and what they were in for. Ed purposely kept those other two women in the dark about what he was really up to. There's no comparison, so give it up! Oh, and women settle for men who are bad in the sack all the time because the emotional connection is often most important to women -- haven't you ever heard of how many women fake orgasms? Get a clue! Ed is no casanova. Maybe a legend in his own mind. And a PIG.
He's there with her today. He was with her in LA on Wednesday. He was with her in Vancouver from Saturday til Wednesday. He's going to be with her all weekend. She's officially making Chicago her permanent home as of next Tuesday. Give it up haters. They're fine and they're happy and they're in love.
HE SURE GOT A FLIGHT WHEN HE WANTED TO COME BACK TO THE SHOW. HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
HOW CUTE.. A DUCT TAPE DRESS......MY WORD HE HAS ALSO TAKEN OVER HER MIND WHEN IT COMES TO FASHION...RUN GIRL RUN
those saying Ed didn't make it to NYC and jubilating because they are jillian and ed are falling apart better eat their words because he was there. you guys stop dreaming about them breaking because it won't happen.period.
If he has issues with between the sheets what are the girls fighting over him for? wouldn't they have dumped him? why will L be crying over the ring the Ed promised her a ring. to me it doesn't matter, if she new she was in love with Ed and slept with the other guys it amounts to cheating.
She was the star of the show. All the men knew what they were getting into. She didn't lie about having a boyfriend before she went on the show. Nor did she cheat on Ed after the engagement. BIG DIFFERENCE! And I credit her for choosing to stay with a guy with ED problems. He obviously has some issues 'between the sheets' that he's compensating for with the whole stud image. Probably a little thingy -- hung like the rodent he is.
all those call on Ed. what about jillian sleeping with reid for sure and possibly kip? they both cheats so I don't get ya'll's drift.
I Looooooooooove her! And her dress is ADORABLE!!!
Jillian is only fooling herself.
ED COULDN'T book his flight! Yeah, ON PURPOSE! How many girls has he got lined up while she's gone?! How stupid is she, he did NOT WANT to go with her, he has other fish to fry or lay. He's had his fun and got loads of publicity from the tv show and his fake relationship with her. Time for him to move on. Bet within a week we'll hear it's over. How long is this desperate chick going to hang on? What a joke she is, HE probably can't believe it. He's probably thinking, what more do I have to do to get rid of this girl! And this dress she has on is UGLIER than her, YUCK.
The dress is ugly.
From the article, Jillian says: "We want to try to live a normal life and get to the point where we live together and start to come together and then start planning,"... ****** If you aren't coming together it must be because of Ed's little problem -- or big problem, depending on how you look at it. Poor Ed needs meds for ED.