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.

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.

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.”

Jake, who has been dubbed “America’s Most Hopeful Romantic” by ABC, doesn’t know what to expect from the 25 bachelorettes who will battle for his affections.

“I don’t know a thing about any of them. I absolutely cannot wait…I get lost for words when I start talking about the girls. I understand that they’re just unbelievable.”

Jake’s search for love wouldn’t just be about beauty.

“I’m not looking for the most beautiful girl,” he explained. “She will be to me no matter what anybody else says, but, I’m looking for a hard character, compassionate, passionate, romantic and, and protective.”

The 14th season of The Bachelor premieres in January 2010 on ABC.

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.

“It’s going to be a group to be a group dating show and they will bring back people from the very beginning of the franchise,” a network insider claims. “It’s going to be a bit racier than The Bachelor.”

The Bachelor: All-Stars, which is expected to feature fan favorites like Jesse Csincsak, will begin filming with a three-day Mexican cruise in January.

In related news, in April, ABC renewed The Bachelor for the 2009-2010 primetime season, bringing the popular dating series into its fourteenth season.

Any longtime Bachelor/Bachelorette fans out there? Which past contestants would you like to see look for love again?

Melissa Rycroft, former star of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars and The Bachelor is engaged, PEOPLE Magazine has learned.

Tye Strickland, an insurance agent, popped the question over the weekend at Dallas restaurant Cretia’s. The pair have been dating on and off for more than two years.

The two rekindled their romance after the former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader’s engagement to The Bachelor’s Jason Mesnick ended with a live breakup on the After The Final Rose special on March 2.

Last week, Melissa made her debut as a Special Contributor on ABC’s Good Morning America.

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.

Word is Melissa — a former cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys –will be working as a “special contributor” during the summer, presenting “maybe eight or 10 pieces” for ABC’s popular morning gabfest.

The deal is not yet final, but the former Dancing With The Stars contestant wasted no time spreading the news of her latest screen soiree on her Twitter page this morning.

“Guess who just got a job with Good Morning America??? WHAT?!?” she wrote.

Melissa is expected to make her GMA debut shortly. We’ll keep you posted.

The Bachelor’s Melissa Rycroft could be the next reality star to pose nude for Hugh Hefner.

The Hef has reportedly offered the former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader turned Dancing With The Stars frontrunner $500,000 to follow in the footsteps of fellow TV hotties Adrianne Curry and Kim Kardashian and strip down to her birthday suit for an upcoming issue of Playboy.

In fact, Hef has invited the brunette bombshell to a special dinner at the Playboy Mansion to discuss the details and crunch some numbers.

A Star source says: “Hef really wants Melissa to do a pictorial because she’s the ultimate girl next door.”

“He thinks she has it all,” the insider adds, “Beauty, brains, spunk, and it doesn’t hurt that she has a terrific figure.”

Of course, Melissa could always ask Holly Madison for a few pointers. The former Girls Next Door star is Melissa’s co-star on DWTS this season.

But don’t reach you climax too quickly, guys. It could be several months before Melissa shakes her moneymaker on the pages of Playboy.

“It states in her contract with ABC that she cannot pose nude while she’s on Dancing,” Star’s tipster reveals. “And she won’t even be able to until three months after her season ends.”

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?”

According to PEOPLE Magazine, Melissa Rycroft, 25, will fill th eslot vacated by Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell, who had to withdraw from the competition on March 5 due to a knee injury she suffered during rehearsal.

Melissa, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, is expected to perform live on tomorrow night’s premiere.

Melissa won the hearts of reality TV fans across the nation last week when she won the 13th season of The Bachelor only to be jilted by fiance Jason Mesnick, who ended his romance with Melissa to return to the show’s runner-up, Molly.

(Keep those names straight. There will be a quiz on this later.)

In other DWTS News, former Hefner hottie Holly Madison is believed to be taking over for singer Jewel, who also withdrew last week due to an injury.

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.

On The Bachelor finale on Monday, Jason stunned fans by announcing to his fiancee Melissa Rycroft that he was leaving her for Molly, the show’s dumped runner-up. The decision to break up with Melissa on national television has turned the single dad into one of the most disliked men in America.

(And rightfully so, what a creep!)

“I completely regret doing that,” Jason told Ellen on today’s show. “I regretted it every single day since that happened and I will regret probably every day for the rest of my life. The producers obviously really wanted me to do it on the show, but I take full responsibility for my actions.”