Day 11, Sharleen

Sharleen here has runner-up written all over her. She spells her name in a nutty way, she's from Canada, and she has a career and a reading and movie list that are seemingly out of place among those of the standard Bachelor contestants. Sharleen seems unlikely to be a winner because she admits to not being a risk-taker (a cardinal sin only a few Hail Mary's below having divorced parents on the Bachelor registry), she talks about her mother's strength rather than her parents undying love for each other in the context of who she admires, and she admits to feeling somewhat uncomfortable receiving others' applause (a humble-brag given her job as an opera singer, but she's going to have to emphasize the latter over the former if she wants to meet with much success). Add all this together with the fact that, best as I can tell, she is not now nor has she ever been a model, and it's pretty clear that she's not, in the near future, going to be massively unbalanced by a Neil Lane atrocity weighing down her left hand. But her ethnic ambiguity and the fact that her profile shows an acknowledgement of the existence of grammar has me all set to root for her as the Bachelorette in 2014!