Arkansan participates in demolition derby, makes it through another round on ABC's 'The Bachelor'

Tia Booth
Tia Booth

The Arkansan trying to win the heart of eligible bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr. earned a rose and made it to another week of competition on ABC's The Bachelor on Monday night.

Tia Booth, a 26-year-old physical therapist from Poinsett County, also showed off a tougher side in a demolition derby group date.

"This is like some redneck [expletive]," Booth said with a laugh as she donned racing gear and prepared to tear up a dirt track with 14 other contestants trying to knock out the others' engines. "I really have to represent."

Despite taking a few hits, Booth was the second-to-last woman standing when nearly all the wheels had stopped spinning.

She cursed at the sky and let out a frustrated shriek after 27-year-old Seinne Fleming, a Yale-educated real estate manager from California, took the victor's stand.

But in a one-on-one conversation later in the episode, Luyendyk told the Arkansan she was definitely his "type."

"It seems more real now with Arie, and with that also comes more at stake," Booth confessed to the camera.

In last week's premiere episode, Booth introduced herself to the 36-year-old real estate agent and former auto racing driver by joking about her hometown of Weiner.

"Please tell me you don't already have a little weiner," she said, presenting Luyendyk with a small hot dog-shaped keychain.

Luyendyk was a runner-up on The Bachelorette in 2012. The show airs Mondays at 7 p.m. on ABC.

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