Bad Girl on 'The Bachelor' Gets Booted

ByABC News via logo
May 5, 2004, 6:07 PM

May 6 -- "Trish, I don't think you and I were meant to spend the rest of our lives together."

And with that, NFL player Jesse Palmer sent the professional model, Trish Schneider, packing in Wednesday's episode of The Bachelor.

"I think you are amazing, beautiful and gracious and you have an amazing family. And you are going to make somebody very happy one day," Palmer told her. "And I hope you can appreciate that."

But, Palmer went on, "I'm making this decision with my heart. And my heart is telling me that I am not the man you are supposed to marry."

"OK," was Schneider's response.

The 28-year-old model from Pompano Beach, Fla., says that she was initially surprised that Palmer didn't hand her a rose, considering their last conversation seemed positive. Schneider said on Good Morning America the morning after her rejection was broadcast that he had given her private reassurances that she shouldn't be nervous, saying "everything's great."

(In the show's weekly rejection ritual, the bachelor hands roses to the women he wants to keep in the running. The unlucky women who get no rose must leave the house.)

Palmer kept the much-disliked Schneider in the running to be his bride even after his real-life best friend who posed as one of the hopeful women on the show but was really acting as a spy told him Trish had to go.

But after another competitor warned the hunky pro football player that Schneider wanted him for the wrong reasons, the message finally got through.

One Small Side of Me

Schneider raised eyebrows when she wore a T-shirt that read "Gold Digger Like a hooker just smarter," while hanging out in the ladies' bachelorette pad.

"Things are not always what they seem," said Schneider when asked about why she wore the shirt. "I think I'm a very dimensional person and that's just one small side of me."