We must confess we don't watch ABC's "The Bachelor: London Calling" -- it's a little too much reality for us.

So it was a surprise on many levels to read in today's Clovis News Journal that the lovely Amanda Rantuccio, a 27-year-old account executive from Orlando, Fla., who was sent home a couple of episodes ago, has Clovis roots.

Rantuccio was one of the three finalists for the hand of Briton Matt Grant, but was given the heave-ho in the next-to-last episode, leaving Matt to choose between Shayne and Chelsea in the show's final episode that aired Monday night.

(For the record, Matt picked Shayne Lamas over Chelsea Wanstrath, to create what the online gossip site The National Ledger called "a shallow relationship made for Reality TV.") 

The glamorous second runner-up spoke to the News Journal before that episode aired, telling the paper that her parents lived in Clovis from 1977 through 1980 while her dad was stationed at Cannon Air Force Base.

She lived in Clovis just long enough to be born, and then moved on with her nomadic military family, the News Journal said.

"I'm not out for revenge," Rantuccio told the Orlando Sentinel last week after being dumped from contention. "I'm not holding a grudge against Matt. It was a crazy situation we were in. I had some questions. I took them out there. I don't know if I'd say I feel any differently."

(We have no idea what she's talking about, but maybe you do.)

A senior advertising account executive at Orlando's Knight agency, Rantuccio made a recent guest appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" but tells the Sentinel that more TV appearances aren't in her future, but picking up where she left off in advertising.

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