Bachelor Bob Gives Diamond, No Proposal

Nov. 21 -- When at last Bob Guiney made his choice on the season finale of The Bachelor, he didn't say "Will you marry me?" or "Let's get engaged."

What he did say as he presented a diamond ring to Estella Gardinier was a little bit vague.

"It represents my promise to you to see where we can go," Guiney said. But he was quick to add that Gardinier should wear her new diamond on her right hand as a promise ring — not on her left as an engagement ring.

"I think it was just honest," Guiney told Good Morning America. "You know, we had been through a situation where I'd been dating 24 of her friends for, you know, a period of time, and I obviously decided I wanted to really take the time to get to know her a lot better. And at the same time, I had picked out this pretty amazing ring, so I decided that I'd like her to have it as a token of what we had gone through together."

The 28-year-old Beverly Hills brunette happily accepted the ring, and once again proclaimed to viewers how much she was in love with Guiney.

Next Stop: Extreme Makeover?

Though the finale aired just last night, it has actually been four months since Guiney gave Gardinier the ring. Since becoming "the bachelor," Guiney, a 32-year-old divorced mortgage broker from Detroit, has released a book, What A Difference a Year Makes, and has also been making the rounds on various TV shows.

"I'm on Extreme Makeover next!" joked Guiney, who first came into the spotlight as the funny guy on The Bachelorette. He was ultimately discarded by bachelorette Trista Rehn, but came back as the star of this season's The Bachelor.

Until the season finale of the The Bachelor aired, Guiney kept his love life pretty much private. He and Gardinier couldn't be seen together in public because it would have given away the show's ending.