Have you heard of Brian Jarosinski? He’s a former Terrapins baseball outfielder who, in the 2004 season, fearlessly led the Terps and finished the season as one of the leaders of the ACC. He hit 16 home runs that season, the second highest number in the ACC. Injuries took him out of the game for almost a half of the 2005 season, according to The Diamondback archives.
But these days, Jarosinski is probably better known for striking out in his fearless search for love on the ABC reality television show, The Bachelorette.
Desiree Hartsock, this season’s bachelorette, took Jarosinski out of the game in the episode that aired June 10 after a dramatic scene in which Stephanie Larimore — Playboy’s June 2006 Playmate of the Month — came on the show and said she was Jarosinski’s girlfriend.
“You deserve to be exposed for the man that you are,” Larimore said.
“Stephanie and I, we had a relationship,” Jarosinski told Chris Harrison, the show’s host. “We had it in the past.”
But not according to Larimore.
“It’s in the present, Brian — we’re still together,” Larimore said, adding she had tried to break up with Jarosinski a day before he left to come on the show. “You told me you just needed time to yourself to get things sorted out. I had no idea you were here.”
“Her and I have had a very rocky, toxic relationship,” Jarosinski said to Harrison. “There have been a lot of bad things.”
The confrontation continued for several more minutes. Then, Harrison turned to Hartsock and asked her if she would let Jarosinski stay on the show.
“No,” she said, shaking her head. “Not a chance.”
Jarosinski declined a request to comment for this story.
“Regrettably there are reasons I cannot share or comment why I haven’t given the real story yet and proved it,” he wrote in a Facebook message. “It will come out in time but as for now I am under contract to not accept any interviews as I get [a] dozen offers a week. I would love to get something to the alma mater but it’ll have to wait at this present time. I can tell you the real story is historic for the existence of the show.”
Jarosinski lives in Baltimore and works as a financial services representative for Gateway Capital Financial, an office of MetLife, according to The Baltimore Sun. He majored in government and politics and graduated in the 2006, according to the Office of the Registrar.
On June 18, Jarosinski retweeted an article from In Touch Weekly, in which the tabloid reported he and Larimore have started dating again. Larimore told In Touch Weekly she is no longer so shocked that Jarosinski didn’t tell her he was going on the show, saying, “Our relationship was very much on and off for a few months leading up to March,” when the show’s taping began.
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