The Chris Lambton FANSITE  

Reality TV rejects find love

By Gayle Fee And Laura Raposa / Inside Track

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - Updated 46 minutes ago

Photo by Michael Blanchard

“Bachelorette” star Chris Lambton and girlfriend Peyton Wright at the Ellie Fund’s Oscar Night Gala at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Boston.

Here at the Track, we’re suckers for a happy ending. So when “The Bachelorette” castoff Chris Lambton showed up at the Ellie Fund Oscar Night bash at the Mandarin-Oriental with his new ladylove Peyton Wright on his arm, we got a real rush of the warm and fuzzies.

“She’s got spunk,” joked Chris about his galpal, a former dance team member, who now sells cheerleading and dance team apparel in Dallas.

“Yes, I was the girl in the sequined half-top and black pants dancing at half time,” Peyton told the Track.

Word is, the hunky 33-year-old Cape Cod landscaper and his former “Bachelor Pad” contestant sweetheart have been racking up the frequent flier miles since meeting at an event in North Carolina. (Chris’ pal Jesse Beck, who appeared on “The Bachelorette” with Lambton and “Bachelor Pad” with Peyton, introduced the two.)

As you well know, Lambton was the first runner up in the run for the roses on last season’s installment of “The Bachelorette.” In the season finale, Ali Fedotowsky chose former minor league ballplayer Roberto Martinez over Chris, who was then pegged as the obvious choice to be the star of the current run of “The Bachelor.” But Lambton decided he’d had enough of public dating and turned down the role — then promptly found himself a galpal on his own!

As for Peyton, she appeared in Season 10 of “The Bachelor,” getting dumped in grand fashion by “Officer and a Gentleman” Andy Baldwin who left her standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. She resurfaced last year on “Bachelor Pad.”

While Peyton admits to dragging her hunky honey “to about a million weddings” this year, Lambton said he seems to get a lot of attention from guests – not because of his TV stint – but for his Massachusetts accent!

“Wherever we go down south, people ask him to ‘talk Boston,’ ” said Wright. “He entertained an entire wedding the other weekend.”

And Chris’ sisters-in-law have picked up Peyton’s penchant for “y’all.”

“It’s like the flu, everyone is catching the y’all,” laughed Lambton, who, if we may say, looked especially handsome in his tux the other night.

“I mean, I like his T-shirts and hoodies, but doesn’t he look nice,” asked the southern belle.

Um, no argument here.