US Navy refused The Bachelor filming at any naval bases or Andy in uniform
Looks like the US Navy wanted to keep its distance from the ABC reality dating show The Bachelor by refusing to cooperate with filming of the show, or allow any shots to be filmed (with a few exceptions) of Andy in his naval uniform. This meant that there could not be any official navy sites used as backdrops.
Producers of the ABC reality series “The Bachelor” - which this season featured a Pearl Harbor-based Navy lieutenant - had to improvise to create a naval backdrop for the show.
That’s because they Navy chose not to cooperate with the production showing Lieutenant Andy Baldwin selecting his life partner from 25 female contestants.
Camera crews were not allowed to film any scenes on naval bases, nor film Baldwin in uniform, aside from some limited exceptions.
But you may remember the dates with Andy and two bachelorettes on the aircraft carrier? Turns out that aircraft carrier is now a tourist attraction and was previously decommissioned by the Navy.
The USS Midway was the site of 1 improvised scene. Baldwin and two women hoping to become his girlfriend ate dinner on the aircraft carrier after Baldwin gave them a tour of the vessel.
But the Midway is not part of the Navy’s’ fleet anymore - it is a retired ship that has been turned into a museum moored at a city pier in San Diego.
I am guessing they were a little leery about the potential publicity this would bring!
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June 1st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
And it was a very good that the Navy chose not to cooperate or assist in any part of the production.
“Leery about potential publicity”? Hardly.
LT Baldwin isn’t representing the U.S Navy, although that’s the spin the producers of the show wanted to present. He’s doing this on his own time — or rather — on what the Navy calls “permissive leave.”
His appearance on The Bachelor will hardly make most guys want to go for an officer’s commission, let alone head for the recruiter’s office to sign up.
It’s easy to fall in love with a young Naval medical officer who looks nice without a shirt, who is buying you all these presents and driving you around in sports cars owned by a TV network.
Let’s see what happens the first time he has to deploy (uh, a simple reminder: The U.S. Navy is a warfighting organization), and she has to move kids and a household across the country while dealing with TRICARE.
I agree with CBS’ Craig Ferguson’s assessment of him: “He’s a tool.”