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?

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In an interview with Good Morning America Wednesday, Ed’s college sweetheart Lindsey Johnson confessed that she began dating the reality star again in February and he told her that his time on the dating reality show was “a joke.”

Lindsey insists that Ed promised to marry her after the show was done taping.

On April 10, he allegedly wrote Lindsey, “I’m going to molest you when I get home.”

A second woman, Bethany Steffen, is also alleging that she was secretly dating Ed while he was courting Jillian on national television.

Both Ed and Jillian deny the infidelity rumors. “It’s actually not true at all,” Ed told GMA. “I think Jillian and I have been the target of being one of the very few successful couples on the show. We’re clearly being targeted because we’re happy.”

Jill adds, “He has been very, very clear with me from the very beginning. He’s been open and honest. I know that he’s kept in semi-friendly touch with those girls. I’m aware of that — he doesn’t hide anything from me. It’s not possible… it is absolutely made-up.”

“I personally don’t have time to, in my normal, regular life that I’m getting back to, to entertain all of this. … All of this is totally inaccurate and it’s just unfortunate.”

Will Jillian and Ed stay together? She reveals, “This is a bump in the road and we’ll get through it… Ed and I are on top of the world right now.” Jillian hasn’t changed her plans to move to Chicago, saying, “I’m in Chicago right now and meeting Ed in Vegas tomorrow. We are so excited to party it up and have fun.”

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Swiderski, 30, had sex with former girlfriend Lindsey Johnson on June 4, eight days after proposing to Jillian on the season finale of ABC’s The Bachelorette. And that was after he tried to seduce a second former flame, Bethany Steffen, into bed by texting her to “bring beer and condoms” over to his place.

“It’s not nice to hear the person you care about is stepping out with other girls,” Steffen tells Us. “Ed’s not worth my time, but if I can help someone avoid heartbreak, I’m gonna do that.”

“I feel gross, used and completely violated,” Johnson chimes in. “It shocks me that he was able to do something like that to me.”

What do you say, guys? Should Jillian kick him to the curb?

In a shocking twist, just as Jillian was awaiting Ed, newly eliminated contestant Reid — the 30-year-oold real estate agent — arrived to profess his love for Jillian and, ultimately, got down on bended knee and proposed marriage, saying: “I know that you felt what I felt, and I thought just you knowing that was enough….I came back to tell you that and to tell you that I love you.”

Jillian turned down Reid’s proposal, saying she knew her heart was with someone else. “Our relationship is complete….I am 100% madly in love with Ed,” she said.

Finally, Ed arrived, embraced Jillian, and said: “Jillian you may not know how much you’ve impacted me…you’re everything that I could ever ask for in a woman.You’re beautiful, you’re intelligent, you’re funny, you’re confident, and you make me smile when I look in your eyes. I know that I love you, but before we go any further, I need to know if you love me.” Jillian told him she loved him too, and couldn’t wait to tell him that.

Ed then got down on one knee and said: “I want to be with you forever. I want a family with you. I want you to give me a hard time when we’re 80-years-old. Jillian, will you marry me?”

“Absolutely,” Jillian shouted.

The Bachelorette: After the Rose Ceremony airs Tuesday night on ABC.

Jillian, the 29-year-old interior designer from Alberta, Canada, will get a second shot at love when 25 men duke it out for her heart on the small screen this spring.

“I’m a very lucky person. I’ve been a huge fan of the show since day one,” Jillian said on Tuesday night’s Bachelor: After the Final Rose Part II. “I did fall in love once before [with Jason]. I know this is a great venue for me to fall in love again.”

The Bachelorette premieres May 18 on ABC.

DeAnna Pappas, the woman who has watched two romances go up in smoke after stints on ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, has landed a gig helping other brides-to-be plan their dream weddings.

The 26-year-old, who canned her Bachelorette Romeo Jesse Csincsak just last week, will be co-hosting the Lifetime reality series Get Married when the second season of the show premieres on the network for women January 5.

“I am so happy to be co-hosting the new season of Get Married! Every weekday morning I will be bringing you the latest in wedding planning tips and trends, and weekly I will be blogging here at bloggerbrides.com.”

Jesse Csincsak and Deanna Pappas, the couple who fell in love and became engaged following a whirlwind romance on The Bachelorette last Spring, are dunzo, according to a recent YouTube vlog from the heartbroken would-be groom.

So what caused Romeo and Juliet’s parting of the ways, well as Jesse tells it Deanna told him, “I love you but I’m not in love with you.”

Check out Jesse’s YouTube testimonial for more on The Bachelorette split.

DeAnna Pappas is back on the market. The Bachelorette is single once again after breaking up with her snowboarding fiance Jesse Csincsak last week.

“I really felt like I was going to spend the rest of my life with him. I thought he was my fairy-tale ending,” DeAnna says in a new interview with In Touch. “But after the show was over and we settled in to our normal lives, I slowly came to realize that we are two totally different people and it wasn’t going to work out.”

DeAnna plans to donate her engagement ring to charity.

Jesse Csincsak DeAnna Pappas, the couple who found eternal love on ABC’s The Bachelorette this Summer, are angling for television wedding and a fat paycheck to kick off their lives together.

DeAnna and Jeese have already selected May 9th, 2009 as the day they will exchange vows and the loves are hoping to get the network to shell out $3 million to broadcast the Spring ceremony, an insider tells Star Magazine.

“It may not be such a bad investment,” the Star spy reasons. “ABC feels fans will tune in and the ratings could be outstanding!”

DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak, stars of ABC’s The Bachelorette, threw out the opening pitch at the baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last night.

As you can see, DeAnna throws like a girl.