Local vying for Bachelorette

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A former Penticton resident is hoping he gets kissed by a rose.

Pen-High graduate Daniel Maguire, 31, is a contestant on the current season of The Bachelorette, vying for the affections (and roses) of Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher.

The male model describes himself as honest, experienced and friendly.

He says his biggest date fear is "that she doesn’t look like she does in pictures, or when on a date, she embarrasses me in a restaurant."

Maguire also boasts he has no tattoos for the "same reason you don’t put stickers on a lambo."

On the first episode of the show, Maguire also got drunk and stripped down to his underwear. But he was still awarded a rose at the Rose Ceremony by Fletcher.

His Facebook page says he studied psychology at Thompson Rivers University.