TRISH trashing, a new sport popularized by the catty contestants on the latest edition of “The Bachelor,” will continue next week.
Trish Schneider, the tall, attractive – and vilified – brunette who was dumped on the air by Giants’ reserve quarterback Jesse Palmer, vowed she would not go away without a fight and was asked afterward by producers to return to the show.
“On one hand it makes for really good TV,” Schneider told The Post yesterday of the opportunity she was given that’s never been offered to any of the show’s previous contestants.
“On the other, they [producers] said to me: you were there [in the house] for weeks and we’ve seen that you did absolutely nothing to these girls and they tried everything in their power to cut you down and throw you under the bus – you really didn’t have a fair shot.”
Schneider, a 28-year-old model from Florida, wouldn’t explain the circumstances under which she’ll be reintroduced on the show.
But on “The Bachelor,” she was portrayed as an outspoken competitor who even wore a T-shirt that read “Gold Digger – Like a hooker, just smarter.”
It didn’t help matters when Palmer gave her a rose – an invitation to return to the show – the very first time he met her early during the season premier.
What’s worse, she later admitted to the other girls that she once had an affair with a married man and likely ruined the marriage.
Despite the friction she had with other contestants, Palmer continued to keep her – until this week.
“I had a great time on the show, I would do it again in heartbeat,” Schneider says. “I have no regrets – and at this point the show isn’t over for me completely,” she adds, with a mischievous chuckle.
“What people saw on TV was a smidgen of who I am,” she says. “Because of editing and time constraints you didn’t really get to see a lot of the other sides of me or why I have such strong opinions about certain things,” she says.
“I was kinda pissed,” she says of how Wednesday’s episode turned out. “I’m just kind of over the whole catty, girly-girl thing.”