Erica won't leave Rome!

Watching “The Bachelor: Rome” is, at this point, a bit like holding on to a bad relationship. You know something is awry, but you want so badly for it to be good again! The first few weeks, we could justify that maybe Prince Hottie Lorenzo just had bad taste in women. Now, all signs are strongly pointing towards puppet masters (otherwise known as producers) making the stupid decisions for him.

Last night’s episode began with the return of our least favorite Diva extraordinaire, Erica. You would think the chick would have some debutante ball back here in Texas to attend, but no. She helped to choose which remaining bachelorettes would get the coveted one-on-one dates. She chose the well-deserving Sadie and the previously barely-mentioned Jennifer (who Lisa, the resident bitch, said doesn’t deserve to be a princess because she just doesn’t look that good without makeup).

Long story short, Sadie, Lisa (the bitch), Agnese and Jennifer are the last bachelorettes standing. They all get the much sought after hometown dates. We’re not sure why Agnese is still around, seeing as how she barely speaks English. (We’re also curious as to why the fine people at “The Bachelor” couldn’t round up an Italian girl who does have a decent working knowledge of the language, but that’s neither here nor there.) Lisa is surely being kept around purely for drama. Previews for next week’s episode show her greeting Lorenzo in a wedding dress with wedding magazines sprawled all over a table. We think she’s trying to tell him something. It’s subtle, but it’s there.

The other interesting part of the preview is that blasted Erica is back! Still wearing her tiara. Surely that is just the doing of the puppet masters. We’re starting to worry that the girl is going to score her own spin-off. Think “The Flavor of Love”, only on ABC. Scary, we know.