American Idol's Casey James the Next Bachelor?

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?

I somehow doubt it.

The Bachelor: Jason & Molly Wed While Jake & Vienna Shack Up

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.

The Bachelor Jason Mesnick & Molly Malaney Getting Married March 8 On TV

The most reviled bachelor in ABC's The Bachelor history, Jason Mesnick, he being the guy who changed his mind about his original wife choice, Melissa Rycroft, dumping her on TV, while viewers watched.

Mesnick then told his former #2, Molly Malaney, that he now wanted her to be his wife. Mesnick then proceeded to get way too affectionate, with his new bride to be, way too soon after dumping Melissa.

And now, finally, a wedding date has been set. March 8. That gives Jason 6 weeks to change his mind.

The Mesnick/Malaney nuptials will be shown on ABC. I do not know if this will be a live broadcast. I suspect it will get a lot of viewers, hoping to see some fresh Mesnick nuttiness.

I don't think I'll be watching. I know I did not watch the Trista/Ryan wedding. I believe they are the only wedding to come out of The Bachelor, well, actually that wedding was a result of The Bachelorette.

I did watch the wedding of Survivor's Rob and Amber. I liked that pair.