Melissa Rycroft has gone from one reality tv series to the next. Jilted by Jason Mesnick on the season finale of The Bachelor, Rycroft will rebound on the hit show – Dancing With the Stars, People has learned.
Rycroft originally received the coveted proposal from Mesnick, and was publicly dumped six weeks later for the runner-up bachelorette, Molly Malaney. According to tvwatch.com, Mesnick is not proud of what he had to do. “After we got back into the real world, all of a sudden, we had less to talk about and I didn’t know why. I started thinking wow, what’s happening? Why aren’t we communicating the way we did when the show was going on … There was part of me that wanted things to work out with Melissa so bad. But the whole other piece was I had these crazy feelings for Molly.”
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By now, we all know Jason Mesnick is “a bastard.”
ABC’s most recent loser from The Bachelor reached a new low (even for reality TV) at Monday night’s After The Final Rose (ATFR) ceremony.
If you never watched The Bachelor—I’m pretty sure you did last night. After all, the show’s dramatic season finale was the series’ largest ever in five years. 15.5 million of us tuned into the two-hour season finale and, after learning that “the winner” Melissa Rycroft was traded in for runner-up Molly Malaney, another 2.5 million tuned in for the ATFR show.
I’m pretty sure Rycroft was not too please to learn the ratings.
As you know, there’s something special about giving yourself fully to someone on national television. From your time, support, trust, love and er body, giving “the one you love” everything you have in exchange for the same is a risk some people take—especially on a reality show. Add humiliation and lack of privacy and I can’t help but wonder why anyone would give up an opportunity to appear on television in search of love. READ MORE »
Andrew Firestone married model Ivana Bozilovic over the weekend, reports E! News.
According to the site, the former “Bachelor” swapped vows with Bozilovic in a central coastal town just north of Santa Barbara, California where his family owns a vineyard.
Firestone, who is the great-grandson of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. founder Harvey Firestone, proposed to on Bozilovic’s 30th birthday—after two years of dating.
“I was hoping she would say yes,” Firestone told “Us Weekly” back in October. “I was banking on it!”
Firestone was also previously briefly engaged to Jennifer Schefft – to whom he gave the final rose in season three of “The Bachelor.”
“Sometimes you get hurt before you actually make it right,” Firestone said recently. “[Ivana] makes me a better person. Never before have I been so gushy.”
ABC’s The Bachelor doesn’t have the greatest track record when it comes to successful couplings.
Mary Delgado and Byron Velvick, one of the show’s last standing hookups, got into quite the domestic dispute just hours after appearing on this season’s After the Rose special.
Delgado was arrested in Florida on charges of assaulting Velvick at 12:15 on Wednesday morning. The angry confrontation, according to police, resulted in Delgado hitting Velvick in the face and splitting his upper lip.
PEOPLE reports that when police got to the two-bedroom townhouse that the couple shares in Tampa, they arrested the 40-year-old former Bachelor contestant and took her to the Pinellas County Jail.
She was charged with one count of battery and was released after about 14 hours.
The couple appeared on the Bachelor’s sixth season where Byron Velvick gave Delgado the final rose and a marriage proposal.
The couple has lived together for almost three years and said that they have plans to marry next year.
Ladies, remember when you were a little girl who harboured dreams of a fairy-tale marriage to a prince? Well, you too could live happily ever after, if you signed on as a contestant on ABC’s reality series “The Bachelor.”
In its new season, the network is taking 25 women to Rome, where they will turn on the charm, hike up the skirts, and – hopefully – lure in this year’s bachelor Prince Lorenzo Borghese.
If 24 other women wasn’t competition enough, the show is also throwing in two yet-to-be-identified natives from Italy for the 34-year-old prince to choose from.
Of the 25 bachelorettes making the trip across the pond, only one is Canadian – 30-year-old Sarah, a journalist from British Columbia.
The series premieres Monday at 9 p.m. EST on ABC.
