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"The Bachelorette&amp;#039;s Ashley Hebert has admitted that she wasn&amp;#039;t surprised when Constantine chose to exit the show this week.  The restaurant owner walked away from Ashley after telling her that he wasn&amp;#039;t at the stage of feeling so head over heels in love that he could propose.  He also said that he had planned not to accept the Fantasy Suite card if he wasn&amp;#039;t in love with her at this stage out of respect for her and their families.  Ashley, who had expressed concerns that they weren&amp;#039;t connecting as strongly as she was with finalists Ben F and JP, told readers of her weekly People blog that she hadn&amp;#039;t been surprised by the decision. &amp;quot;Throughout most of the date, I felt a huge disconnect with him. I quickly realized I was holding out and looking for a romance between us that will never be there. I wanted to use the rest of our date to see if things would be different,&amp;quot; she wrote. &amp;quot;Our conversation at dinner quickly touched upon both of our concerns, and though I was willing to use every last minute to see if time was what we needed, Constantine didn&amp;#039;t surprise me by saying goodbye.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; The Bachelorette keeps high viewing figures &amp;gt; The Bachelorette recap: Fantasy Suite dates, one man walks, another returns Ashley had voiced her worries about their relationship during the first part of their one-on-one date in Fiji, which saw them taking a helicopter ride over the islands and swimming in a private lagoon.  Host Chris Harrison added in his own blog for Entertainment Weekly that he hadn&amp;#039;t predicted the relationship to fall apart this week, particularly as it came following Ashley&amp;#039;s successful hometown visit where she met Constantine&amp;#039;s family.  &amp;quot;Although Constantine was really the one that initiated the breakup they both realized that this relationship had hit a wall,&amp;quot; he wrote.  &amp;quot;It had gone about as far as it was going to go. Ashley and Constantine like and admire each other very much, but that is far from love and that is far from what either of them deserve. It is also far from what she is feeling for the other two men.&amp;quot; Despite Constantine eliminating himself, leaving just Ben F and JP in the running, Ashley told Harrison that she still wanted to have a rose ceremony, saying that the process was a two-way street and she needed to know the men felt the same way she did.  This Monday&amp;#039;s episode of The Bachelorette, which airs 8/7c on ABC, is the Men Tell All special. The finale follows the week after.  &amp;gt; The Bachelorette&amp;#039;s Ashley: &amp;#039;I forgave Bentley a long time ago&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Read our full The Bachelorette headlines Watch Ashley Hebert&amp;#039;s recent interview on Lopez Tonight below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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