from today's Nashville paper.....THE TENNESSEAN....
'Bachelor' contestant celebrates her first round
By BRAD SCHMITT
Staff Writer
Nashville's Sarah Stone scored a rose and a whole lot of camera time in last night's debut of ABC's The Bachelor: Paris, which stars Vanderbilt emergency room resident Dr. Travis Stork as the bachelor.
Things got a little tense for Stone, 26, of Green Hills, as she got the next-to-last of the 12 roses Stork handed out, signifying he chose her to stay for the next round.
About 110 friends gathered at hotspot Virago for the premiere. The crowd shrieked each time her face came on the big screen, and they roared as Stork called out "Sarah from Tennessee" toward the end of the show.
"Obviously, if you pass the first cut, you can enjoy the experience a lot more. We're glad to see she makes it, but we knew Travis would see in her what we saw in her," said friend Shannon Schupp. She and a dozen others wore black T-shirts with "Pick Sarah" written on the front ? the same logo printed on pink cocktail napkins. Stone's tank top read, "Pick Me."
The payoff was big for Stone, who quit her job as kindergarten teacher at Julia Green elementary school in Green Hills after working five years for Metro schools.
Show producers seemed to like Stone, as well. They used her three times as narrator to explain what was going on in the house.
Stone described what happened when Stork first walked in ("Everyone just stopped and stared"), how the girls felt about him being a doctor ("This is definitely going to make it a fierce competition") and how the girls felt about super-pretty contestant Susan and Stork's feelings toward her ("I think a lot of girls are . . . a little jealous.").