Family of Bachelorette contestant excited about season premiere

Source: Canada.com

Will Canadian hottie Chris Hasek win Ali's final rose?

Friends and family of Campbell River's Chris Hasek-Watt will be glued to their television sets at 9 p.m. Monday when the season premiere of The Bachelorette airs.

Hasek-Watt, 27, is one of the bachelors aiming to win the heart of Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky, 25, on the sixth season of the popular reality show that airs on ABC. His mother Jana Watt of Campbell River said she can't wait to see Monday's show.

"We're really excited, I had no idea how popular the show was all over the world," Watt said. "A lot of his friends are really excited and we'll be getting together to watch Monday night."

Hasek-Watt was born and raised in Campbell River and attended Pinecrest, Robron and Timberline schools. He loves sports and was particularly well known as a talented world-ranked junior tennis player.

"He's a great tennis player," Watt said. "He played on the BC team and he still plays a lot."

Hasek-Watt attended UBC and is now an account manager with a real-estate development company in Vancouver. He still loves sports and plays golf, basketball and hockey as well as tennis.

"We're very proud of him," his mom said. "He's very motivated, he's very competitive - I don't know if that's a good or bad thing - and he works hard to get ahead."

She said friends of her son suggested he'd be a good contestant on The Bachelorette so he sent in an application.

"They started with thousands of applicants and then just kept narrowing it down," Watt said.

Hasek-Watt traveled to Los Angeles and took part in the taping of the show at a mansion earlier this year. Secrecy is key and he is not allowed to reveal anything that happened during the taping of the series, Watt said.

The Bachelorette premieres at 9 p.m. Monday on ABC. 

The Bachelorette: B.C. contestant Chris Hasek-Watt jumps from real estate to reality TV

Source: Vancouver Sun

For all intents and purposes, B.C.-based Bachelorette contestant Chris Hasek-Watt seems like a decent, athletic guy with a brain in his head and a big future. 

He's destroyed all comers in Vancouver's Jericho Tennis Club 5.0 division, having won both the singles and double championships in 2008. He was once ranked equal-993rd in the world as a junior. 

He received a Bachelor's Degree in commerce from the University of British Columbia in 2007, which helped him become an account manager at the Calgary-based Walton International Group, a global real-estate development company. On LinkedIn, he lists his interests as continuous learning, real-estate investments, competition, friendships, compassion, integrity, and willingness to succeed. He's a near-scratch golfer and plays basketball and hockey for fun. 

Your grandmother would adore him. Your boss would hire him. Your guy friends would 'bromance' him. You'd probably buy an overpriced condo from him. He has it all.

So who can say why he'd dive headlong into the shadowy world of reality television, especially on a TV show like ABC's The Bachelorette, in which the point of the exercise is to compete with 24 strangers for the ring finger of a woman he hasn't yet met.

Perhaps some insight can be gained from his Twitter feed of last year, where he said, "There are two types of people in the world, Somebody’s and Nobody’s [sic]. Presently I’m a Nobody."

Well, that's about to change.

"Bring on those boys," says the object of his latest exercise, advertising account manager Ali Fedotowsky, 25. "I'm back - and I'm ready to find love!"

Though the line-up of bachelors hasn't yet been officially released, early promotional materials for the sixth season of the show has locals yapping that Hasek-Watt is one the 25 men involved. In fact, the Hasek-Watt chatter is so intense that a Facebook fanpage has popped up (http://bit.ly/bachy6) for those who adore the chisel-jawed overhead smash.

But it won't be a walk in the park for the west-coast mover-and-shaker, who will have to really break his back to beat the quality of some of the other competitors on the show, many of whom seem like they got lost on their way to auditions for Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader (the answer: hardly).

Take "Shooter," who says he gained his nickname after an unfortunate sexual incident in college. Then there's Justin ("Rated-R") Rego, a professional wrestler who really wears a leg cast with panache. And let's not forget Scott "The Mountain Man," who likes to kill and stuff animals of all varieties and says he's going to "bring someone home to take care" of him and his dog.

Frankly, if you don't get all teary-eyed when mixing romance and taxidermy, you're a cold-hearted cynic in need of a cuddle.

Previous seasons have boasted contestants as diverse as Mike the breakdance instructor, Mark the pizza entrepreneur, Luke the oyster farmer, and Sean the martial artist, so don't be surprised if Tyler the pirate, Juan the porn star and Hector the scrapbooker pad out the roster on season six.

For now at least, Hasek-Watt isn't talking about his Bachelorette experience. All previous posts on his Twitter account have been deleted.

I was finally able to find more information on Chris Hasek. Doesn't he just look amazing in a suit! He's my pick to win Ali's heart and I hope that he does not turn out to be another "Jake Pavelka" ahem I mean cry baby.