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We live in a world where celebrity status can be achieved overnight via reality television, especially if one appears on one of the few long-running reality series still in existence. No where has this been more apparent than on the current season of The Bachelor.
Would-be rose recipient Madison Garton, of Vail, Colorado may not look like it, but she has proven to be one of the smartest contestants ever to appear on the dating show. 
She has successfully combined the enduring appeal of reality television with the current white-hot allure of the vampire craze to create a public persona that has tapped into the fame vein.
Fame vein, get it?
First she defied convention by lasting through the premier episode in spite of, or maybe because of, the prosthetic fangs. Then she did the unthinkable; she walked away from a competition where the goal is to snag, or in her case, bite into, a prospective mate!
“It blows my mind,” Garton told reporters the morning after she told Bachelor Brad Womack she had to leave. “It seems like some girls are really in it to win it. Winning ‘The Bachelor,’ you know. … Girls are sort of strategizing and all of that. When you pull yourself back from it, you’re like, ‘Hey, what am I doing? I don’t even know this guy!’”
The official story was this: Garton, known as “Fang girl” on the web, felt moved by the story of fellow contestant Emily Maynard. She’s the girl whose race car driver husband died in a plane crash in 2004, after which she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Garton said she didn’t want to stand in the way of what could become “true love.”
On The Bachelor? Not bloody likely!
According to imdb.com, Garton’s real name is Madison McKinley and she’s an actress who’s appeared on “30 Rock”, among other shows. All this means is that Garton is a shrewd actress intent on draining whatever publicity she can get from reality tv.
Who knows how things will play out for the fanged hottie? She could wind up with something more valuable and enduring than the final rose on a dating competition.
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