Bachelor No. 1
Andy Baldwin, star of “The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman” and our city’s reigning It Boy since he moved here six months ago, has a lot going for him: he’s a doctor, a Naval officer, a world-class triathlete and a humanitarian. Yet he admits he’s still a bit heartbroken.
Speaking at the “Q&A Café” at Nathans of Georgetown on Wednesday before a crowd that included more than the usual contingent of twenty-something women, Baldwin admits he still tries to contact Tessa Horst, the woman whom he proposed to on the last episode of the show, only to watch her break up with him eight months later. He said he Google chatted her before Wednesday’s lunch, but she didn’t respond.
“I’m focused on work now,” he said, which includes recruiting and public relations for the Navy, in addition to some medical duties, at Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Southwest D.C. He said his unit just met its recruiting goal for the first time in five years “and I’d like to think I had something to do with that.”
Not that his social life is boring. He was romantically linked to Donald Trump’s ex-wife, Marla Maples, earlier this year, but now says they’re “friends.” He said when he was stationed in Palau in the Pacific Ocean, Maples sent him a package, but didn’t have an address, so she sent it care of the country’s president. He said when his commanding officer caught wind of it, he said, “Lt. Baldwin, you had some packages sent to the president of Palau from Marla Maples? What is going on?”
As for Washington women, the ever-earnest, ever-diplomatic Baldwin said they’re “beautiful, intelligent, athletic and have a certain bent toward policymaking and public service.”
