Shawntel Newton

Get thee to the nearest gym / drycleaner / dyeable shoe emporium -- it’s wedding season! And while we’re a little behind on, um, all of those things, we couldn’t be happier for the folks who are going to have the best view in the house: the one from the altar. And wouldn’t you know it, one of our favorite old pals is in the homestretch for her own wedding: Shawntel...

After watching the tonight’s episode, in which  Shawntel Newton of The Bachelor Season 15 drives from Chico to San Francisco to crash Ben Flajnik’s Bachelor Season 16, Episode 3 cocktail party, you probably wondering: What’s the history here? Did Ben and Shawntel know each other already? Did they more than know each other?

In the clip, Shawntel says she’s only...

Last year around this time, The Bachelor Season 15 viewers were just getting to know Shawntel Newton, the funeral director and embalmer from Chico, CA. Brad Womack said goodbye to Shawntel after her hometown date — in which she mock-embalmed him, not sexy! — but at some point during the airing of The Bachelorette Season 7, she seemed to have developed a crush on Ben Flajnik......