LI native eliminated from 'The Bachelorette'

Long Island native Brian Autz made it to Australia for this season’s second episode of “The Bachelorette” but became one of three men cut from the competition at the climactic Rose Ceremony Monday night.

Until that moment, Autz, 33, who was born in Huntington and raised in Northport and East Northport, had been in the running. As the episode opened, he was among the eight men that bachelorette Jenn Tran, 26, chose for her group date in the city of Melbourne.

They started at the Queen Victoria Market and afterward proceeded to a Melbourne International Comedy Festival show hosted by comedian Bec Charlwood at the St. Kilda Sports Club, where Autz and the other men had 10 minutes to each come up with some stand-up to perform for Tran.

“We’re walking in here, thinking we’re going to get some food, hang out at the bar, and there’s a stand-up comedian and I was, like, ‘Uh-oh, we’re all about to get roasted!’ ” Autz told the camera in his only featured moment in the episode.

With much of the two-hour episode devoted to a rivalry between Aaron Erb and Devin Strader, Autz got little screen time among the 18 men. At the Rose Ceremony, he along with Jahaan Ansari and Marvin Goodly were cut. Autz was the third of them to bid Tran goodbye, at least in the final edit as shown on-screen, and the only one of the three whose dialogue was not heard.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Autz had not commented on social media, other than a reposting a viewer's tweet on Instagram Stories, where messages cycle out after 24 hours: “I can't believe she sent the guy in the tan suit home. He had the ‘Rocky Balboa’ look. Must not have been a connection.”

A representative for the production company, Warner Bros., declined to make Autz available for interview by deadline.

The 2009 Northport High School graduate, who now lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, is the second-oldest of four children of retired NYPD Det. Elise Autz, now a longtime security person at Northport High, and the late Brian L. Autz, a firefighter with Ladder 28 in East Harlem, who retired in 2008 and died last year.

Brian Autz obtained bachelor’s degrees in political science from the University at Buffalo and one in business from Farmingdale State College. Per his LinkedIn account, he then worked as chief operating officer for the food and beverage company Sosh Brands, which owns the Northport restaurant The Whales Tale and its affiliated brewery, Harborhead. Company owner Sosh Andriano is married to Autz’s older sister, Jennifer Andriano, a Suffolk County police officer.

Autz later worked for the payroll-services firm ADP. He entered the medical-sales field with Xodus Medical. In 2019 he began his current job as a territory manager for Merz Aesthetics, a multinational corporation that per its website makes “injectables, devices and skin care products … [for] aesthetic medicine.”