Bob Guiney (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Robert "Bob" Guiney (b. May 8 1971, Riverview, Michigan) was a contestant on the first season of The Bachelorette. Later, he was chosen to pick his own perfect lady on the fourth season of The Bachelor.

Guiney is a 1989 graduate of Riverview Community High School. He graduated from Michigan State University, where he was a walk-on quarterback for their football team.

He started his own company, Allied Home Mortgage, with his childhood friend, Greg Clausen in 1999.

Bob was shown to have a winning personality on The Bachelorette, so when Trista failed to give him a rose to advance (but still invited him to her wedding), ABC executives decided that Bob should be the Bachelor that next season.

On the fourth season of the reality show, in the fall of 2003, Bob wooed 25 girls (one of whom was Mary Delgado, who was ultimately cut and returned for the sixth season) and eventually picked Estella Gardinier, a California mortgage broker, in the show's finale. Soon after the show aired, they broke up. Bob was originally in a band called Fat Amy which was based in Lansing, Michigan; the band is now known by the more memorable - and presumably more saleable - name The Bob Guiney Band.

While making the rounds on the talk-show circuit, he told the audience that he was a budding musician and that a studio album was in the works. Late in 2003, Bob's debut album, 3 Sides, first hit music stores.

Capitalizing again on his budding fame, he published a book in late 2003, titled What a Difference a Year Makes: How Life's Unexpected Setbacks Can Lead to Unexpected Joy, sketching his adventures in the year between his appearance on The Bachelorette and his appearance on The Bachelor.

Personal Life

He was previously married to Jennifer Lantz.

In May of 2004, Bob got engaged to All My Children star Rebecca Budig, who hosted The Bachelor in reruns on ABC Family. The couple married on July 3, 2004.

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