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The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love

Chris Harrison: 'The Bachelor' finale will "shock," "disappoint" viewers

By Christopher Rocchio, 02/11/2010

Chris Harrison has decided to take The Bachelor on the Wings of Love star Jake Pavelka's previous claim that the show's ending will "puzzle a lot of people" one step further.

"As far as everyone's opinion, I will steal a line from Jake. He has said, 'I will shock people, I will disappoint people,'" The Bachelor host told E! News in a Thursday report.

"But he did what he feels was right, and I totally support him. Good for him."

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Not only does Harrison claim Pavelka did was he "feels was right," but he added The Bachelor star did what made him happy.

"I know for a fact Jake is happy with his decision," Harrison told E! News.

Pavelka is down to his Final 3 bachelorettes -- Vienna Girardi, Gia Allemand and Tenley Molzahn -- on The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love, the finale broadcast of which will air March 1 on ABC.

While Girardi is rumored to be the woman Pavelka did select when the show's finale was filmed late last year, Harrison said he's "surprised that [Jake] kept her around."

"I even asked him, 'Really? Why?' Every time I asked him about Vienna he said, 'I know that the other girls don't love her, but I see a side in her that they don't, and I'm not going to let the cattiness and the competitiveness ruin what I have with her. And what I have with her is real,'" Harrison recalled to E! News.

"I have to give the guy credit to have the balls to go against what everybody's saying."

Harrison also reiterated his previous comments that Girardi "has a bit of a bad rep" and isn't actually as bad as she has appeared on TV.

"I don't think Vienna is the devil that she's made out to be," he told E! News. "I'm not going to completely absolve her, but I think the real Vienna, I think there's a mix. I think I would go somewhere between the Vienna we saw in the house and then the very warm, touching, vulnerable Vienna that we saw in her hometown."

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