The new season of romance reality series The Bacheor premieres Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 at 8 p.m. on ABC, the network announced on Wednesday.
Jake Pavelka — the 31-year-old commercial pilot who wooed Jillian Harris with a little help from Martina McBride on the last season of The Bachelorette – was revealed as the new Bachelor last month. Jake — a fan favorite — will get a second chance at love when 25 bachelorettes vy to win his heart on The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love.
Controversial former Bachelor star Jason Mesnick — who famously dumped the recently-engaged Melissa Rycroft for Molly Malaney after choosing Melissa on the show’s finale — is hearing wedding bells of his own.
Jason proposed to a “giddy” Molly while on a vacation in New Zealand on Tuesday, PEOPLE.com has revealed.
Audiences were shocked when Jason dumped Melissa for Molly during The Bachelor: After the Final Rose last March.
Fan favorite Jake Pavelka was revealed as the next “Bachelor” on Tuesday night’s Dancing With The Stars Results Show.
Jake was an early frontrunner on the last season of The Bachelorette after a one-on-one date with Jillian Harris, during which the couple was serenaded in a private concert by country star Martina McBride.
“I’ve dated some really amazing girls, but I’ve never been successful at finding that one girl,” the Dallas pilot says, “and I saw how the whole thing comes together, the process with Jillian. I saw how the process works and I believe in it. That’s a unique way to meet somebody.”Read the rest of this entry »
ABC is planning an all-star edition of The Bachelor.
Network producers are putting together a reunion series featuring more than a dozen past contestants of the long-running reality dramas The Bachelor and The Bachelorette battling it out for one another’s affections, In Touch Weekly reports in its Sept. 21 edition. Read the rest of this entry »
Talk about a woman who knows how to parlay public humiliation into a full-fledged career….
Melissa Rycroft — the woman who was dumped on national television on the last season of The Bachelor – is joining the cast of Good Morning America. Read the rest of this entry »
The Bachelor’s Melissa Rycroft has gotten off to a strong start on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars, quickly emerging as a top contender for this season’s winning title, but on Jimmy Kimmel Live Friday night, the former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Friday took herself to task over her success.
When Kimmel asked if she feels like she and pro partner Tony Dovolani are improving as the competition goes on, Melissa replied: “I feel like we take ten steps backward every time the show ends and we start again, because it’s a new routine and it’s something I haven’t done before. So, I was really comfortable with that stupid salsa that we did, and now you’ve got to throw that out the window and … foxtrot?”
The Bachelor’s Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney opened up about their controversial relationship in a chat with talk show host Ellen Degeneres on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »