Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski, the happy couple that resulted from the last season of “The Bachelorette,’ were more or less unfazed by the tabloid stories that Ed had hooked up with two of his ex-girlfriends while he was supposed to be engaged to Jillian (reminder: “Bring beer and condoms“).  Now, a website has turned up the entire email chain with both women, and Ed allegedly declared that he’s not even attracted to Jillian.

More shocking than the contents of the emails — in which Swiderski told Johnson, “I’m going to molest you when I get home” — is that Swiderski was seemingly happy to see them all over the Internet.

When the RealitySteve.com blogger alerted Swiderski that he was going to run his conversations on his Web site, the Bachelorette winner replied, “Go with it, Steve-o!” [...]

“You worry too much!” he wrote [to an ex]. “You know I never took this thing seriously. In addition, I’ve let the director know that I would be doing the show for the wrong reasons as I am not, in any way, attracted to the chick.” [Us]

You can read the whole thing over at RealitySteve and judge for yourself.  I mean, if you even care.  Me, I’m too disillusioned by all of this.  I can’t believe that something on a reality TV show was presented in a false manner.  If people competing on television can’t find a life partner, how are us regular folk supposed to believe in love?

Last week, Us Weekly dropped a gossip bombshell that rocked the world of the eight people that care about “The Bachelorette” when it claimed that Jillian Harris’s fiance Ed Swiderski had slept with his ex-girlfriend after he had proposed to Harris and attempted to bed another ex by texting her the winning line, “bring beer and condoms.”  Now Ed and Jillian and “Bachelorette” host Chris Harrison are doing the expected rounds of denials.

Chris Harrison: I’ve talked to Jillian twice in the last two days. She is definitely upset… It is tough, but they are still together; they are still engaged. That has not changed. Someone reported she dumped him in Las Vegas. That is not true.

ET: But the two women in US magazine are saying they have e-mails from Ed?

Chris Harrison: The problem is the two girls cashed in and took a paycheck for the story in US, so, they kind of sold out, which is unfortunate. They sold out at the expense of Ed and Jillian. The problem is there is a shred of truth in there, which Jillian already knew about. But if there is a shred of truth, you can’t fight the bull!@#$, so what are you going to do?

Eh, whatever.  Jillian was dating 25 guys when she met Ed.  I’d say he gets a couple extra strikes.

On Monday night’s “Bachelorette,” Ed scored big points with Jillian by flying his parents out to Hawaii so that they could meet the girl of his dreams.  After a long day in the sun, the two opted for a night in the Fantasy Suite, and from there, the magic took over:

As their “sexy time” begins to heat up, ABC zooms away from the Fantasy Suite until viewers are taken outside the hotel just in time to see the lights inside the suite flick off. After a quick pan out to the romantic Maui beach setting, the cameras return to outside the suite bedroom, where, oddly enough, the lights flicker back on [*record scratch*].

Next, we see a visibly disappointed Ed lying face down on the bed while a consoling Jillian sits on his back showering him with neck kisses [*sad trombone*].

”I was very nervous, and, uh, it just didn’t happen. I couldn’t show her that I really truly am in love with her. Jill may have gotten the wrong impression,” says Ed to the camera, adding, “She could just ask me to leave.”

There you have it: Ed Swiderski was impotent on national television.  Everyone who ever meets him from now on will find out with a simple Google search that he couldn’t get an erection for a woman he declared his love for.  You know, it’s almost like going on a reality show and competing for someone’s affection isn’t the best way to find enduring love.