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Duped Bachelorette Melissa Rycroft Will Dance With The Stars

Joelle Tomlinson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:23:34 +0000

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.”

Rycroft, 25, is to fill the slot vacated by Access Hollywood host Nany O’Dell, who had to withdraw from the competition on March 5 due to a knee injury. A source close to the production stated the the Dallas beauty is expected to perform live on the Monday premiere of the show.

A spokesperson for ABC declined to comment.

Rant ‘N Rave: The Bachelor

Irene Ogrodnik — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:04:19 +0000

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.

But even though people who actually go on these shows should expect to get turned down, the dumper can do it with class or like an ass.

Ass way won for Mesnick.

After declaring his love for Rycroft, viewers oohed and aahed over what seemed like a sweet and sentimental (barf) and perhaps even legit declaration of love by Mesnick. We refused to believe the rumours circulating on the Net that Mesnick would dump her for Malaney. Some of us may have turned off our TVs—satisfied that a happily (never) after just occurred.

So during the ATFR special—taped six weeks after Mesnick’s proposal—Me nick lets it all out. He tells Rycroft he still has feelings for whatshername. You know, the girl he said wasn’t good enough only to be good enough six weeks later?

Upon hearing this news, Rycroft calls him a bastard (hoorah). She tells him not to call her or talk to her ever again. She gives her ring back (which she should’ve actually kept since HE dumped HER) and walks off the stage.

Mesnick swears he and Malaney have not been in contact. We can smell bullpoop from miles away.

What baffles me the most is that Malaney actually agreed to give this jerk another shot at love. Does she really think he will be different to her? It’s like your date acting rude to a waiter. Jet out ASAP (after your date pays the bill, of course).

As for Malaney—yes he should’ve dumped Rycroft if he had no true feelings for her but that boy (I refuse to call him a man) didn’t have to do it on national television. Whether the network wanted him to for ratings—it doesn’t matter. And as for ABC, you are jerks as well for airing this just for ratings.

But should it not work out between Mesnick and Malaney (because why would it?), I think Mesnick will be destined to stay The Bachelor–forever.

Ex-‘Bachelor’ Weds Model

Irene Ogrodnik — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:12:24 +0000

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.”

Bachelor Beauty Beats Fiancé, Gets Arrested

andPOP Staff — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:57:22 +0000

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.

Roman Prince Up For Grabs On New Season of ‘The Bachelor’

andPOP Staff — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:49:58 +0000

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.