There's a woman in America who's very happy at the moment, and the reason for her happiness is evidently going to be something of a disappointment to hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of others.

We're sorry to have to break the news, but it looks like Bob Guiney found love on "The Bachelor."

Naturally, Guiney, 32, isn't revealing his final choice from among the 25 women who took part in ABC's latest love-matching experiment. Otherwise, there would be no reason to watch the show, which premieres at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday (Sept. 24).

"Obviously, there are no guarantees in life, and you don't know what's going to happen, but hopefully it will work out," Guiney says. "As of this point, I feel very confident."

That this news could dash the dreams of women he's never met is still a little puzzling to Guiney, a divorced mortgage broker, musician and one-time backup quarterback for Michigan State. Following his appearance on "The Bachelorette" last season -- in which he was one of Trista Rehn's final six suitors -- he's become the nice-guy object of many a woman's affection.

"Maybe people just related to the fact that I wasn't a millionaire, I wasn't any of those things" that viewers expected to see in male dating-show contestants, Guiney says of his appeal. "I was just a normal person put in an abnormal situation, and I just had fun with it and was myself."

In its ads for the show, ABC is playing up Bob's sense of humor and other regular-guy traits, implying that he's not the square-jawed, leading-man type that previous "Bachelors" were. As he puts it, though, "I never considered myself ugly, and I never knew others did either."

A lot of that image has to do with the fact that when "The Bachelorette" was taped last year, Guiney had been inactive for months following reconstructive knee surgery and was about 30 pounds overweight. He's since lost that weight, which in turn led to rumors that ABC put him on a diet. Untrue, he says.

"I've always been an athlete. That was the first time in my life that I'd been heavier than I would have wanted," he says. "It just happened to play out in front of 20 million people.

"From that standpoint, I think it's a huge compliment to me that even when I was in the worst physical condition of my life and probably wasn't looking my best, they still felt my character and personality were [strong enough] to make me the Bachelor."

Despite a glut of twist-heavy dating shows in recent months, "The Bachelor" is sticking mostly to its tried-and-true format. There are a few surprises -- Guiney's mother shows up in the premiere to offer her impressions of the 25 women, and he'll have to eliminate some women in mid-date rose ceremonies -- but no one gets tricked.

"There's still no cash prize, no crazy exes show up or anything," Guiney says. "It's just more something to upset the comfort level of everyone ... who thought they knew what was going to happen next."