Bio
Ben Flajnik is an American winemaker best known as the runner-up on the seventh season of the reality competition The Bachelorette and later appearing as The Bachelor in the 16th edition of that show.
Flajnik's (pronounced Flannick) proposal was rejected by Ashley Hebert in the finale of The Bachelorette. He is part of a very close knit family, including his mother and sister.
His father, Joseph, with whom Ben was best friends, died a number of years ago. Always supportive, his father personified the kind of husband and father Ben wanted to be.
Ben grew up in Sonoma, California, leaving for Tucson before he started high school because of his dad's work. His mother is a teacher of third grade "gifted students."
Ben stayed in Arizona to attend the University of Arizona, majoring in music production with a minor in business. He quickly found success in the business world, working in Internet advertising after he graduated college.
After his father died in 2007, Ben moved back to California, and he plans to stay in northern California for the foreseeable future.
Ben dabbles in a lot of hobbies and crafts, such as crab fishing, sailing, golf, skate boarding, surfing, playing piano and singing in a tribute band. He is also quite handy with a hammer and saw, and loves fixing and building things, as well as landscaping.
The woman who will share his life will also have to share one of his other great loves: his Jack Russell Terrier, Scotch.