Of course, as my luck would have it, B.V. says he's head over heels for the girl he chose on the show. "I am in love," he tells me, when badgered repeatedly for the scoop. "I miss her and I think about her constantly, and I'm so happy to have found her through this experience."
Awww...You can hear more of what Byron said in my segment from E! News Live from Wednesday. But, naturally, there are a few more juicy tidbits you need to know. For instance, his nickname for his chosen lady is Pookie Bear (nauseating, but somehow cute). And she calls him Darren. Odd, no?
Byron also says the show has become something of a dating service for his friends and the booted ladies. "I was overwhelmed with the quality of the women. All my friends now want the numbers of the women I don't pick. They're like, 'If you don't want her, I do!' And during one of the rose ceremonies, one of the girls whispered in my ear, 'Give your friends my number.' I guess she was really interested in finding someone."
Given the track record of the other Bachelors (0 for 5), I took the opportunity to harass Byron into, hopefully, standing by his woman this time. "That's why they wanted someone older, I think," he says. "Young people don't have any idea of what they're looking for yet in life. They're still trying to find themselves. When you're older, you can really appreciate the person, because it's more like, Wow, it took forever to find you." I'm holding him to that. Unless he actually was professing his love. Hmmm...