And as for Bob ...

Reality is playing out like a fantasy for Bachelor Bob Guiney, the 32-year-old divorced mortgage broker, weekend rocker and jokester from Detroit. Rejected by Trista Rehn on The Bachelorette, Guiney has been kissing his way through 15 eligible ladies while heading for the Nov. 19 finale. He was back at work, closing two loans, when he spoke to PEOPLE.

Viewers can't help noticing how fast you get to first base – you're more of a kisser than previous Bachelors . . .
I'm an affectionate person in general. But I think if anyone has dated 15 people in the course of their life, odds are they kissed them. I just happened to date them in an abbreviated period of time. I think they were showing footage of everyone I've kissed since ninth grade.

Has it made a difference that so many of these women stepped out of the limo already knowing you as lovable old jig-dancing Bob from last winter's The Bachelorette?
Yes, they honestly thought they knew me. A lot of them also knew about me from appearances on Oprah. One said, "My mom loves you from Oprah, and if Oprah loves you, that's good enough for me."

That was a classic reality-show upset, you rejecting Lee-Ann Callebs on the Oct. 22 episode, a week after she gave you an ultimatum and said if she wasn't making it to the final four, she didn't want to go any further. That girl was so hoping for a rose. What went wrong?
Lee-Ann was sweet and she was right in saying that we had a really good chemistry. But as I got to know her more and more, I didn't love the way she was with me a lot of times. . . . Still, I feel bad that she came off the way that she did.