You are looking at picture of Dancing with the Stars Maksim Chmerkovskiy soon after his arrival in the Ukraine, on November 26.
Has Maks defected back to his homeland?
No.
Maks is back in his old homeland to try and find a wife by being on a Ukrainian TV network's Ukrainian version of ABC's The Bachelor.
I learned of this on Maks' blog where he defended himself regarding rumors that he'd refused to be on the American version of The Bachelor because he can't stand American women.
Maks has had some lovelife woes in his search for a wife. He claims to be real shy, with his time taken up by his dance career. For awhile Maks was engaged to fellow dancer Karina Smirnoff. He seemed real happy about it. But then they split. And now Karina is engaged again. While Maks hunts for Ukrainian love.
I think Maks would be very amusing on the American The Bachelor.
The Bachelor/Bachelorette has had a one way relationship with Dancing with the Stars, with Bachelorettes Trista Rehn Sutter and Melissa Rycroft dancing, along with everyone's most despised Bachelor, Jake Pavelka.
It seems only fair that one or two of the Dancing with the Stars stars should be on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette.
If Karina Smirnoff most recent engagement goes awry, she'd make a good Bachelorette.
Wouldn't Derek Hough or Mark Ballas be amusing Bachelors? Those boys in the Fantasy Suites? Now that would be some entertaining TV viewing.
I wonder if the Ukrainian version of The Bachelor will have Maks in 3 different Fantasy Suites? He's such a shy guy, I'm sure this would make him very nervous.
In the video below you'll see Maks upon his arrival in the Ukraine and hear him speaking Russian. Or is it Ukrainian............?
A couple days ago I read somewhere that the host of The Bachelor/Bachelorette, Chris Harrison, thinks Cool, Texas bachelor, Casey James, would make a good choice for the next season of The Bachelor.
Supposedly Casey James makes his home, currently, in Fort Worth. Cool is a town a short distance west of Fort Worth.
Chris Harrison is a Texas native, from Dallas. The same town from whence Jake Pavelka hailed.
There are those who think maybe it is time to give North Texas a break from reality tv notoriety.
Particularly after the Jake Pavelka embarrassment, where Jake went from being seen as an aw shucks good ol' boy to now being seen as an overbearing, control freaking, nut job with an extreme case of Little Man Syndrome.
Casey James does not have Little Man Syndrome. He's tall. Casey James seems to be a nice guy, that's how he came across on American Idol. I think we saw enough of him to make a fairly accurate assessment. I don't think he is hiding an inner nutcase.
Of late The Bachelor/Bachelorette has become a bit of a legit hit. I think The Bachelorette came in #3 in last week's Nielsens. The Jake/Vienna interview debacle might have it at #1, maybe, in this week's Nielsens.
I'm assuming it's all the highly hyped drama that's turned this former snoozefest into entertainment. Awhile back it seems a lot more booze was added to the mix. Casey James has a couple booze related legal issues in his past, I think, so the bachelor booze should be no problem for him.
I've not read anything about Casey James' lovelife history, if there is some tragic backstory to be milked.
I think it'd be a good plan for The Bachelor to break the cycle of choosing the next bachelor from the pool of rejected bachelors. That is how they ended up with Jason Mesnik and Jake Pavelka. Then again, both those boys provided some pretty perverse television viewing.
Would American Idol and FOX let Casey James out of whatever contractual deal he has with them so that he could go on an ABC show and visit some Fantasy Suites?
Well, Jake the Bachelor just keeps on being inadvertently entertaining. Entertaining via the various TV forum comments about the Monday night debacle where poor ol' Jake dropped his mask and created Reality TV Gold with his embarrassingly behavior.
I imagine Jake reads what viewers are saying about him. I think that would be something a Fame Whore would do. I think some of what people are saying about Jake might be driving him to a tearful breakdown.
We've seen a tearful Jake breakdown, at least twice. But, that was before I found out he is an actor. One would have thought he would have produced a tearful breakdown during the interview with Vienna. A good sobbing tearful breakdown might have got some viewer's sympathy.
Anyway, below is some copy and pasting of viewer's comments, followed by a semi-amusing YouTube video with a few choice clips of Jake being the Bachelor from HELL during that now infamous interview...
Vienna is the immature girl viewers saw the whole season but her emotion felt real. Jake came off as even more fake than he did on the show and as a serious control freak. Combined with how they showed him treating Chelsea on DWTS, it looks like he needs people to always agree with him and build him up. He couldn't even let Vienna be the one who broke up with him. Spending much time with Vienna would make me buy ear plugs for sure but spending time with Jake would make me want to hit him to see if he could experience a genuine emotion.
They should really do a "The Breakup" special everytime these couples split up. It makes me sad to think of all the nasty breakups we missed seeing over the years.
Agree with the general consensus that while Vienna could make anybody's ears bleed, Jake is a douchebag of epic proportions. Whoever said he should have chosen Tenley is probably right. He needs a submissive woman who will never disagree with him and will always tell him how perfect he is.
That whole 'undermine' thing was just too much. He thinks if she bothers to have an opinion then she is 'undermining' him. He's a future abuser, if not an abuser already. It's all so obvious.
Agree with this. A lot of his actions reminded me of my ex-husband. His anger issues, always having to be in control & his way is the only way. I felt sorry for Vienna & never thought I'd say that !
Jake came off as a real jerk. If he would have chosen Tenley and treated her in a similar manner it would have CRUSHED her. Vienna was no fave of mine during the whole season but , she was acting the same way on the break-up show that she acted all season long, but Jake went from being Mr. Prince Charming to Mr. Heartless.
I'm half and hour behind but this is freaking hysterical. She's not coming off any worse than she already was. He on the other hand is coming off as a total ass.
While I find Vienna to be a complete mess who's probably broke and therefore willing to sell her story to anyone, I find myself believing her more than Jake. Jake kept making faces and was giving body language that made him come off like he was lying. And raising his voice and bringing his hand down near the end? Aggressive, not a good sign.
He should have gone with Tenley. Her goal in life was to be a perfect wife. He came off really bad in this. His complaints were stupid and he came across as an ass and arrogant. Either his manager really sucks or he wasn't prepared enough for the show. He should have followed Jason's example and done the whole "she wasn't the same person" "we just didn't click out of the show" bit so he'd look good.
Wow, Jake the Fake came off as a total ass. I know Vienna was annoying and wouldn't stfu, but at least she had specific examples of things he said or things that happened. And she showed emotion and it actually seemed like she gave a damn. He wouldn't even look at her, and had nothing to back himself up with except "that isn't true."
I was too tired to watch The Bachelorette last night with its Jake & Vienna Breakup Special.
So, over lunch I fast forwarded through the truncated The Bachelorette episode that saw Ali dump Ty. Why? I don't know. I think I fast forwarded through that date.
I don't think this ends well for Ali.
By the time I got to the Vienna/Jake Smackdown I went out of fast forward mode and watched every uncomfortable second of Jake's embarrassing implosion.
Before I say anything else I have to say, I think Vienna came out the winner in the Smackdown.
I have never liked that Jake guy. Something just always seemed fake and off to me.
I doubt Jake has a clue about what he revealed about himself via the interview with Chris Harrison, but it was real clear this boy has some serious issues. Very controlling. Very overbearing. With an easily ignited temper.
Jake, over and over again, said that Vienna interrupting him was an example of her constantly undermining ways. Vienna's interruptions did not come off that way. To me it was more just a natural conversational argument mode. In the screencap you are seeing the moment when Jake lost his temper, lashing out angrily at Vienna, for interrupting. Vienna burst into tears and walked off the set.
That moment when Jake lost his temper, we all saw what Vienna had been putting up with. Vienna nailed Jake on his communication problems, his intimacy problems, his lying, his fame whoring and not being a pilot.
When Harrison asked Jake for examples of Vienna undermining him, well, Jake's examples revealed more of his domineering overbearingness. Apparently Vienna could not even make a suggestion as to how to arrange bedroom furniture without Jake taking it as more undermining.
Apparently all this underming, and what Jake called emasculation by Vienna, left him feeling no urge to be affectionate. Unless cameras were aimed at him.
Jake is so insecure. At one point the story of the GPS is told. Vienna asks where some building is located. Jake proceeds to tell Vienna something like it's a mile ahead, take a right and go another mile. Vienna then takes out the GPS and programs in the address. This sends Jake into what he feels is a justifiable rage, grabbing the GPS from Vienna and tossing it. He's the man. She should never question him.
Jake looked creepy during the Smackdown. Vienna looked vulnerable and sad. I felt sorry for her.
Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi finally had a face-to-face showdown about their relationship on Monday's The Bachelorette.
But things got ugly when Vienna stormed off the set in tears during their he-said, she-said argument about her decision on selling the split story to Star Magazine.
“I am sorry that I went about it the way I did.” Vienna tried to apologize to Jake, “But I know you, and I knew you would have [sold your story to a tabloid] if I didn’t.”
As Jake replied “You don’t know me and I wouldn’t have done it . . .” Vienna interrupted him.
And this made Jake very angry and shouted “Please stop interrupting me!”
Suddenly, Vienna broke into tears and then run off the set, screaming “He is the biggest liar I’ve ever met in my life!”
Jake said: “Unfortunately, that’s what one of our arguments looks like.”
Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi are being all kinds of nasty, all over the place, over this sad, tragic breakup of their storybook The Bachelor romance.
Vienna supposedly sold her version of their failed romance to the STAR tabloid for $90,000. Vienna allegedly told the STAR that Jake was not very affectionate. Only kissing her when cameras were in range. That they went months without being, uh, intimate.
With Jake giving various excuses to Vienna as to why he did not want to be "with her" in the Biblical sense.
Jake's first excuse was that he was fasting. I guess fasting might affect his performance ability. I know I'm not all that able when I'm really hungry.
The 2nd excuse was that Jake just did not feel like servicing Vienna. He was probably still getting his nutrient levels back up from all that fasting.
The 3rd excuse was that Jake wanted to wait til they were married. What? Huh? What were they doing in that Fantasy Suite on the show? I thought they lived together. Again. Huh?
Finally, Jake told Vienna that he could not bring himself to bring himself to her, because all their fighting just pushed him away. Vienna was at her wit's end, quoted as saying, "I was like, really -- which excuse is it? I literally have been living six months with this guy who won't be intimate with me!"
Jake claims he broke up with Vienna because all the fighting was making it difficult for him to get into character for his role on Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva, playing a character named Toby Davlin, with Jake actually saying, "One of the keys to acting is you have to get out of your head, They didn't hire me to be Jake, they hired me to play Toby Davlin. I can't be Jake and sell this character."
And so, Jake called Vienna to tell her he had to dump her to save his more important acting career. Vienna then wrote Jake a sad goodbye letter and supposedly stuck her $50,000 engagement ring in it.
Jake was on The Dish, whining to Mario Lopez about how Vienna had done him wrong, saying "There was a serious lack of respect in the relationship. when you're disrespected as a man, do you really want to go grab your woman, throw her on a bed and love on her?"
Apparently Jake had all sorts of reasons not to throw Vienna on a bed and love on her.
Frugal Jake was also not happy about Vienna running up a lot of charges on his credit cards. Plus, he also suspected Vienna of having an affair with an actor named Gregory Michael.
Supposedly things got heated between Jake and Vienna when they reunited for the first time to film their Bachelor Breakup Special, which airs July 5. Jake gets mad at one point, due to Vienna continually interrupting him. Internet rumors, denied by ABC, say that it got so heated Jake raised a fist to Vienna.
Raising a fist does not sound all that bad to me. All things considered.
The Bachelorette has been getting good ratings, #7 in the Nielsens last week. I suspect next Monday's smackdown between Jake and Vienna will do even better.
Apparently Jake Pavelka, he of The Bachelor fame, has ceased being a pilot to become full time TV fodder, in various formats.
Jake went right from The Bachelor to Dancing With The Stars, then he was filming something called Drop Dead Diva, in Atlanta, when the Vienna Girardi red flags waved too strongly to ignore, with Jake having trust issues that had rendered rocky Jake & Vienna's 3 month relationship.
So, Jake called Vienna from Atlanta and dumped her.
Jake and Vienna have agreed to be interviewed about the tragic demise of their storybook love affair. I assume the interview will be conducted by Chris Harrison. The interview will air on the July 5 episode of The Bachelorette.
Jake will be working on mending his aching heart by appearing on a The Bachelor spin-off called Bachelor Pad. Bachelor Pad is some sort of competition show with a prize of a quarter million dollars. And another shot at falling in love.
Is Bachelor Pad some sort of Big Brother type show?
On Bachelor Pad Jake will be back with several old friends from his stint as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, where we first saw Jake driven to tears.
Kooky Michele Kujawa will be in the Bachelor Pad. Also in attendance are other Jake rejectees, Elizabeth Kitt, Tenley Molzahn, Gia Allemand, Ashley Elmore and Jessie Sulidis. I remember Michele, Tenley, Gia and Elizabeth, with Elizabeth being the don't kiss me tease. I do not remember Ashley and Jessie.
In the Bachelor Pad, with Jake, are fellow Jillian rejectees from The Bachelorette, Kiptyn Locke, Wes Hayden, David Good, Jesse Kovacs and Juan Barbieri.
Bachelor Pad starts up Monday, August 9 at 8/7 Central on ABC.
This morning I saw "Jake Vienna" on the list of Google trends. I didn't care enough to wonder why.
This afternoon I found out why the pair were being Google trendy.
The bachelor, and his bride to be, are no more. Splitsville. Romance failed. Bye bye Vienna. Pack your stuff and go.
Jake Pavelka confirmed his latest failed romance, but refused to say why the love match with Vienna had gone sour. Pavelka said, "I'm saddened by the whole thing, but sometimes love just isn't enough in a relationship. No matter what happens, Vienna and I will remain friends."
I wonder if Vienna finally had had enough of Jake's cliche spouting.
It would seem, due to the extremely low success rate, that the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise would meet its demise. As in, after awhile, isn't it a bit clear that the concept is flawed. But entertaining to watch.
Currently The Bachelor is 1 for 14, with Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney being the only married couple. The Bachelorette part of the franchise has the marriage of Trista and Ryan, plus a baby or two, as successes among the many failures.
Now on to the current Bachelorette debacle. Apparently it is Canadian professional wrestler, Justin, I think his wrestling name is "Rated R," who creates the drama next week in the most dramatic episode ever, I believe that is what I read Chris Harrison say, when Justin reveals, or is confronted with the fact, that he has a girl friend back home. The rumor is that the girl friend somehow called Ali to let Ali know what a two-timing bastard Justin is. Those Canadians are such bad boys.
I'm sure much amusing drama and brouhahaing shall ensue.
Meanwhile, I wonder if Vienna will go back to working at Hooters. And did she keep the $50K engagement ring?
And will Jake, now a free man, show up at Ali's final sacred ring ceremony to declare he is now a free man? Without a job.
Jake Pavelka, 32, and his fiancee Vienna Girardi, 24, the winner of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love, have broken up!
“Jake and Vienna have split. They appreciate the respect for their privacy at this time.” a rep for the couple confirmed to People.
The news comes as a surprise as the two were very thick together during Jake’s recent appearance on the tenth season of Dancing With the Stars, while Vienna was often seen in the audience supporting him. The couple were also spotted smooching just three weeks ago during their romantic trip to Hawaii together.
Jake is currently filming a guest stint on the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva in Atlanta, while Vienna is in Los Angeles.
That is Ali Fedotowsky sitting on Jake Pavelka's lap on The Bachelor. I don't remember if this lap sitting took place when she left the show the first time to return to work, or when she returned from work, to beg Jake to let her back on the show.
For reasons unfathomable to me the producers of this TV franchise chose the extremely unappealing Ali Fedotowsky to be the current Bachelorette.
After the contrived train wreck of The Bachelor which ended with the dull, unlikable, plastic man, Jake, picking the equally plastic Vienna to be his wife, well, I vowed, no more of this bad TV for me.
And then, this past Monday, I was bored, channel chasing. And I came upon The Bachelorette. I started watching. Ali Fedotowsky is even more unappealing than I remembered. And she seems to have a serious drinking problem.
Near as I could tell she booted a guy simply because he took way too long to open a bottle of champagne, while Ms. Fedotowsky eagerly waited with an empty glass.
I don't remember the champagne guy's name. The only names I remember are the Latino Roberto, the crippled professional wrestler, Justin, who hobbled on crutches to Ali's house. And this really pathetic Weatherman from Texas, Houston to be exact, named Jonathon.
Jonathon turned into a quivering mess during a contrived shoot for a Bare Naked Ladies video. Jonathon's part called for him to kiss Ali. This totally freaked the Weatherman out. It was sort of uncomfortable to watch. I got the inkling that the Weatherman had never actually seen a bare naked lady in real life. Let alone kiss one.
The totally contrived "dates" on these Bachelor/Bachelorette shows are getting ridiculous. Ali took her swarthy Latin Lover, Roberto, on a helicopter ride to the top of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. And then the pair had to walk a tight wire, 20 stories up, gave or take a story, across to another skyscraper roof for food and drink.
Midway to the other skysraper Roberto thought it a good time to kiss Ali. And so he did. Ali wobbled a bit on the tight wire. I so wanted her to fall, like racers did on the recently completed Amazing Race in a similar stunt.
Ali seems to be heavy into drinking and indiscriminantly kissing as many of the guys, as often as she can. A pair of the guys seem to monitor Ali's kissing, like some sort of Greek Chorus.
Weatherman for the win. Seems like the best match for me. And ABC really should not repeat the mistake they made at the ending of The Bachelor. The mistake I'm referring to was putting Jake Pavelka on Dancing with the Stars, a place few wanted to see him. Ali Fedotowsky on Dancing with the Stars would likely cause me to curtail my viewing of that show even more than I already do.
I am finding I don't watch the Dancing with the Stars elimination show. I let the DVR record enough of American Idol so that I can watch it til there is enough of LOST recorded to watch LOST with the fast forward through commercials ability enabled.
When I go to watch LOST I find that the recording starts with the ending of DWTS.
Last night when I started to watch LOST I was pleased to see that Jake Pavelka was this week's Dancing "Star" to get eliminated.
I did not care for Jake Pavelka when I first made his acquaintance. My dislike for him was cemented the first time I saw him cry, well, actually sob, after he returned to The Bachelorette to tell Jillian that Wes was a Bad Boy.
I did a lot of fast forwarding through Jake being The Bachelor. I am sure I missed some crying incidents, but managed to see a couple.
So, last night it was no huge shock to me to see that being eliminated from Dancing with the Stars had Jake in tears again.
Part of the crying might be due to be sad that his run of reality show bucks may have now run out and he now needs to try and find a new pilot job. The pay on The Bachelor and DWTS was far in excess of what Jake makes piloting. Or so I have read.
Maybe Jake will get a hefty offer from ABC for the rights to film the wedding of Jake and Vienna. Then again, with Jake being voted off by the house fraus who vote on DWTS it may finally be realized this is not a guy who is all that well liked by the viewers. I was surprised the overly earnest guy kept dancing as long as he did.
Last week ABC's The Bachelor's most notorious bachelor, Jason Mesnick stopped being a bachelor when he finally got married to choice #2, Molly Malaney.
Tonight, anyone who has the stomach for such a thing, can watch Jason & Molly get married. Well, more accurately, watch the recording of their wedding that took place previously to you watching it.
I wonder how much Jason & Molly got paid for the rights to televise this important event?
Meanwhile, yesterday I was stuck in a slow line at Wal-Mart.
I used being stuck in a slow line at Wal-Mart as an opportunity to read US Weekly.
The latest bachelor, Jake Pavelka and his controversial pick, Vienna Girardi, are on the cover of this week's US Weekly.
Previously US Weekly's told us about all sorts of scandalous Vienna behavior.
Things like draining her husband's bank account while he was in Iraq, so that she could pay for new boobs, being caught flagrante dilecto with her husband's best friend, while her husband was in Iraq, posing nude, all sorts of bad girl X-rated stuff.
This week US Weekly tell us how Vienna tricked Jake.
Jake & Vienna are also on the cover of People magazine this week. Both deny all those horrible things that were being said about Vienna, in the tabloids and magazines, like US Weekly, as total fabrications.
Apparently Vienna has yet to set foot in Jake's home state of Texas. It seems the couple is shacked up somewhere in the Hollywood zone, as Jake learns to dance for Dancing with the Stars.
US Weekly asked Vienna if she won't be totally super jealous over Jake spending so many hours practicing dancing with a beautiful dancer. Vienna indicated she was excited to watch Jake dance and had no problem with it.
Vienna waxed poetic about what a wonderful man Jake is. The best example of this wonderfulness that I remember was Vienna saying that Jake gets out of bed, every morning, to turn on the shower to get the water warm for Vienna. How horribly romantic.
What I actually thought was what sort of dump are they shacked up in that you have to run the shower for awhile to get the water hot?
I read somewhere that Jake's place in the Dallas area is a low rent dump and that he makes less than $30K a year when he does manage to find the time to fly a plane. Who knows if this is true or not. You read a lot of questionable things on the Internet.
Someday, if Jake's acting and dancing career doesn't pan out, he and Vienna may make it back to Dallas to shack up in his dump. Likely eagerly awaiting when they get their turn to have their wedding shown on TV. With substantial compensation.
During tonight's The Bachelor finale, with the Gold going to Vienna, Tom Bergeron and that girl who lost her medal after winning the Gold on The Bachelor, Melissa Rycroft, kept showing up in promos saying the cast for the new season of Dancing With The Stars would be revealed after subjecting yourself to 2 hours of The Bachelor.
Is the little, perky cutie who Jason Mesnick treated so badly the replacement for Samantha Harris? Good choice, I'd say. Rycroft seems to have her wits about her, where Harris always seemed witless.
Okay, I'm sure you are just waiting for me to tell you who is dancing this time. Well, here's the deal, many of them I've never heard of. I'll tell you the ones I do remember because I'd heard of them.
80 year old man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin will be dancing.
So is that annoying girl from Beverly Hills 90120, Shannon Doherty.
A supposedly bad boy NFL player who I'd never heard of will display his gracefulness.
Pamela Anderson, the pin-up girl, Baywatch Babe, home movie making, boob size fluctuating, blonde former hottie will be sure to provide some some moving entertainment.
That notorious Reality TV star from a TLC show I've never watched, who had way too many kids and a philandering husband, Kate Gosselin, somehow found the time do dance.
Olympic skater, Evan Lysacek will likely enjoy his sequined dancing costumes.
Okay, those are the ones I've heard of. The remaining dancers names are (I just Googled it) the football player is someone named Chad Ochocinco, actor Aiden Turner, Sportscaster Erin Andrews, Comedian Niecy Nash and Singer Nicole Scherzinger.
Buzz Aldrin should be interesting. He's the only one in the group who can truthfully claim he has done the moonwalk.
Oh, I forgot, one more dancer, to bring the total to 12, is yet to be revealed. The suspense is killing me. I hope they are bringing back Cloris Leachman for another round.
UPDATE: I thought someone was just making a lame joke the first time I read it, but apparently The Bachelor, Jake Pavelka, is the 12th "star" on the new Dancing With The Stars. I have seen enough of that boy. Are any of the professional dancers short enough to dance with him?
Yes, that is Jake down on one knee, slipping a ring onto Vienna's finger after he declared his never dying devotion, asking Vienna to marry him.
Previous to seeing Vienna win the big prize we saw Tenley get the silver. Tenley did not take it too well, but the theme seemed to be that she'd be okay, because Jake had taught her she could love again.
And previous to that we got to listen in on a very strange moment, on a boat, between Jake and Tenley as Jake tried to explain what was lacking in their relationship. Near as I could understand it Jake thought he had great emotional chemistry with Tenley. Whatever that is. The sexual chemistry was fine. But he was dby the lack of physical chemistry.
Now, I am not a huge student of this area of the chemistry science, but I always thought sexual chemistry and physical chemistry were the same thing.
Jake seems like a confused boy.
I found Jake's family to be a piece of work. Oddly, in a couple shots, Jake's mom sort of resembled an older version of Vienna, with a few pounds added and short, curly hair.
Jake is such a wild man, he verbalized his concern, to his mom, that he'd held back, with Tenley, in showing her his wild side. Like shoving her into a pool unexpectedly. So, later Jake and Tenley jumped into a pool with their clothes on, soon followed by most of Jake's family.
I DVRed the finale of The Bachelor. When I caught up to the present moment, I switched over to 24. After 24 I finished with Jake and his girls. I did not realize there was an After The Final Rose show. I should have remembered. My DVR should have remembered.
Well, I had had too much Bachelor, anyway, and would not have wanted to sit through another hour. Even with the FF button. I do wonder, though, what the current status is of the Jake/Vienna love affair, what with all the nasty bad stuff that's been in the tabloids about Vienna.
I'll likely be easily able to find out whatever juicy stuff, if any, was squeezed out of the likely bloated After The Final Rose show, in the morning.
UPDATE: At the After The Final Rose show it was revealed that the girl who left Jake to go back to work, Allie, is now quitting her job to be the next The Bachelorette.
It gets worse. It was also announced, as promised, who the final dancer on Dancing With The Stars will be. I thought it had to be a joke, but, apparently it is true. More Jake Pavelka on your TV screen. Dancing. But not on mine. I won't be watching either Dancing With The Stars or The Bachelorette. My resolve may change for DWTS.
Well, of course the highlight of the women telling all on The Bachelor was going to be Rozlyn, she being the girl caught canoodling with one of the show's producers, which got her booted in the most shocking booting in the history of TV.
When it came Rozlyn's turn to sit in the witness chair, for her Chris Harrison prosecution, she turned Clintonesque with an "I did not have sex with that man" stance, no matter how many times Chris asked, Rozlyn assured him that absolutely nothing happened.
Then Chris called on some other witnesses. Sweet Ella testified she saw Rozlyn on all fours with her butt stuck in the air, asking for her producer boyfriend because she was ready to be put to bed.
Ashleigh testified she'd seen Rozlyn and her boy friend touching.
Jessie swore she saw the lovebirds on top of each other on the stairs. Jessie swore on her puppy's life that she was telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Which caused Rozlyn to call Jessie's puppy bluff and raise her one by swearing on her child's life that nothing happened. I did not realize Rozlyn had reproduced til then.
The best moment came when Rozlyn turned prosecutorial and put Chris Harrison on the witness stand, accusing Harrison of hitting on her boyfriend's wife while they were in New Zealand. Harrison looked stunned, saying "I will not dignify that with a response." In other words he took the 5th.
I was looking forward to Michelle acting kooky. I was disappointed. Shown clips of her odd behavior, Michelle said she had no regrets.
Elizabeth fessed up to regretting implementing her no kiss plan, the one with all the "you really want to kiss me, don't you, I'm a really good kisser" type teasing.
Watching this train wreck I've long thought Jake is not the brightest candle in the room. The outtake segment had a Jake moment that confirmed that. Jake looks at the camera and asks, "What exactly does self-deprecating mean? That's not the same as self-defecating is it?
I wonder if he got an answer? If not, I hope Jake does not follow anyone's advice to be more self-deprecating, til he learns what it actually means.
Next week we learn how Jake's amazing journey to find a wife ends. And then the week after that is the After The Rose show where we learn that it just didn't work out. I'm guessing.
That's a new look at The Bachelor Jake's girl friend, Vienna Girardi, in an itsy bitsy, teensy weeny, yellow, un-polka dotted bikini.
I do not know what beauty pageant Vienna is strutting in here.
We already learned that Vienna used to work at Hooters. That's not really a shocking bit of news.
This week we learned that Vienna's mom used to work topless in a topless joint. I don't know if that is shocking or not. But it sure makes Vienna into an even more interesting gal for Jake to bring home to meet his mom and dad, who reside, I think, in Dallas, in the Buckle of the Bible Belt.
There are plenty of Hooters in Dallas. And topless joints. So, maybe Hooters and a topless mother-in-law, for Jake, will be no big deal for Jake's parental units.
I got email yesterday from Erin who works for a Bachelor show fan website. Erin told me they've been following my blog for awhile and really enjoy all my recaps of The Bachelor. Erin would love to partner with me, to make our sites even better, with guest blogging and content quoting.
I looked at the website Erin works for. Good stuff. I was amazed at the amount of content for each episode. As in the latest was, I think, Episode 14. There were several of these Top 10 YouTube videos for the latest episode, Like Top 10 Most Awkward Moments. Or Top 10 Worst Cliches About Love. Stuff like that. I was surprised ABC was letting these videos exist, instead of banning them on YouTube, like what was quickly done with Adam Lambert's embarrassing American Music Awards massive mistake.
On The Bachelor Show website you'll also see this hilarious thing that Reality Steve was the source for, that being a video showing how blatantly staged The Bachelor is, showing how totally fake and staged Ali's call to Jake, saying she wants to come back, was.
Now, we'll see if I hear from Erin again, after seeing that I have linked to their Bachelor website, indicating that they actually do follow my blog.
I don't know how many Bachelor and Bachelorettes there have been during the run of the ABC The Bachelor train wreck. I have watched a few of them.
There has always been a sort of hokey fake aspect to this reality show. With Monday night's episode seeming the most scripted yet.
Is it now to be a standard plot twist on the Bachelor/Bachelorette? That one of the contenders gets an ultimatum to return to work?
On The Bachelorette it was Ed who left a, supposedly, devastated Jillian to return to work and then return to Jillian, who then picked Ed for the win, I mean wedding.
And last night we had Ali given a work ultimatum, after she brought Jake to her hometown. Back in Beverly Hills, Ali arrives to have a very badly written conversation with Jake about her terrible dilemma. If only he could let her know that she should stay, she would.
Jake begged her to stay, with no guarantees she would be his Mrs., Ali then left Jake's hotel room, walking alone down the hall, to collapse, sobbing, on the floor.
But, wait, coming up, on The Bachelor, Jake flies Vienna, Gia and Tenley to, I think, St. Lucia, where, surprise, he gets a phone call from Ali. I'm sure once she got back to work and her boss saw what a mess she was, he told her to fly to the Caribbean. Is that Ali arriving by helicopter, in the previews, where the voice over says it's the most dramatic conclusion to The Bachelor in the history of the world.
So, next week Jake and the girls are on a Caribbean island, where the notorious Fantasy Suites await. I hope Jake suffers no Ed-like malfunctions.
I can not help but wonder how it was Ali took time off from work without making certain that it was okay to be gone for 3 weeks in order to find a husband.
And, for some more confusion. Why did I think Ali lived in San Francisco? Was it because she called it her town, that she would show Jake around her town? Didn't they walk through her neighborhood? So, why am I reading, on a news website, that Ali returned to her job as an advertising account manager. In Williamstown, Massachusetts?
I hope Jake is up to handling Vienna in the Fantasy Suite. I'd be nervous if I were him.
There is this guy who calls himself Reality Steve. To the great vexation of Reality Show Producers, Reality Steve somehow manages to get all sorts of inside info about Reality TV shows, like The Bachelor. Which he then writes about on his Reality Steve website. You'll find references to Reality Steve almost anywhere you are on the Internet where viewers are discussing a Reality TV show.
I believe it is Reality Steve who first laid out the scenario where Vienna Giarardi is the last one standing with Jake Pavelka.
Reality Steve has heard a lot of good bad stuff about Vienna. What he can confirm, he prints. What takes too much legwork to confirm, he waits for the tabloids to find the dirt and do the confirming. Then he elaborates.
For a few weeks now, Reality Steve has known about the little bombshell US Weekly dropped in this week's issue.
That being that when Vienna was a 23 year old unemployed, ex-Hooters girl, with an ex-husband, Josh Riley, a Marine stationed in Iraq, to whom she'd been married 10 months, Vienna drained the last $5,000 from her ex's bank account.
What did she take the money for? Breast implants.
Vienna's ex-mother-in-law, Gale, had this to say, "She took every bit of money. I know that boob job was the first thing she had done."
When Marine Riley returned stateside, after his tour of duty was ended, due to being injured in an explosion in Iraq, according to his mother, Riley found that "Vienna had locked his belongings in storage and would not tell us where they were."
Josh Riley now says, "Marrying her was a mistake." He had no comment when asked if he had any words of wisdom for Jake Pavelka.
Well. This week's The Bachelor did not quite go the way rumors said it would. As in Ally did not get mad and leave due to Jake not dumping Vienna.
That Jake continues to keep Vienna, that turned out to be true. Ally seemed to handle this better than last week, at least according to what we saw.
Jake and his 5 girls were in San Francisco for their heavy duty dating. It's down to only 5 so I remember their names. Corrie, the Virgin, Ally the Brat, Gia the Joisey girl, Tenley the Divorcee and Vienna the Pinup Girl.
Jake seems to grow duller and duller the more we see of him. I hate hearing things like "I think you're amazing." That's dull.
When Corrie confessed to Jake her interpersonal experience status, I almost expected him to confess to the same. That would have made their time in the Fantasy Suite amusing. But that won't be happening, because Corrie was the one of the five to get sent home.
Speaking of home, that's where they go next week, an event so important and ominous Jake refers to it like this, "Hometown is a big deal." He must be a long time viewer. I can't see myself saying anything but, "The hometown dates are a big deal."
The previews of "Hometown" looks like some of these girls have scary families, with Gia's Jersey accented mom, sounding like a mafia queen, being the scariest. Vienna's dad seemed a bit thuggish. He'll probably scare Jake.
Now, if you saw the previews you saw again the incident where Jake is very upset at the latest horrible turn of events. And in the first time in the history of the sainted Rose Ceremony, there is no Rose Ceremony. And the rumor is that this is because there was no need, because Ally did not return to Los Angeles after the Hometown Date. I assume due to the Vienna issue. Or, maybe Ally's family was too much for Jake to bear.
ABC's The Bachelor is one of the best train wreck type reality shows. The latest version, that being The Bachelor: Wings of Love, with earnest, up-right, up-tight, Boy Scout pilot, Jake Pavelka, being the seeker of a wife, is being particularly entertaining.
Jake has been the fastest potential wife dumper the show has ever seen. His choices seem perplexing at times.
One choice that perplexes the audience and all but one of the potential wives, is why does Jake keep giving Vienna Girardi those damn roses? The other girls have warned Jake that she's no good. Jake doesn't seem to care.
My sources tell me that what we are not seeing is how awful Vienna treats the other girls. As in epic bad. For some reason the producers choose to show us the animosity of the other girls, but not what is causing the animosity.
The rumor is that the reason it is being edited this way is that Vienna keeps staying around. How can they show her being a Bitch from Hell, if she's the one Jake picks in the end?
My sources also tell me that next week Ali, currently being edited to appear to be Jake's favorite, walks off the show, when Jake continues to keep Vienna.
Now, in the end, if Jake asks Vienna to be his Dearly Beloved, after taking Vienna home to meet his very religious mom and dad, and after their, likely, very chaste night in one of those notorious Fantasy Suites, well, Jake is in for a bit of a surprise.
Jake will be bringing home to Dallas, the Buckle of the Bible Belt, a young lady who has posed for some racy photos.
Now, to me. No big deal. But, somehow, I don't think Jake is the kind of guy who is going to see it that way. Maybe I'm wrong. Jake certainly seems to have no problem with taking most of his own clothes off for the camera.
Time will tell. I'm hoping it makes for some great Train Wreck TV.
