Reality Roll Call

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They Bachelorette Anna DePappas made the wrong choice when she chose snowboarder Jesse Csincsak
after getting dumped not once, but twice by Brad Womack, and they must have been right. The Bachelorette and the boarder have gone their separate ways.

According to In Touch magazine: “…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.” Anna will be donating her engagement ring to charity.

Former Bachelor and Bachelorette contestant Jen Schefft has found true love, and it wasn’t in front of ABC’s camera’s. The 32 year old Ohio native is engaged to marry 35 year old Joe Waterman. The couple met in February, and hit it off.

“We really get each other,” Schefft says of Waterman, 35, a trader. “I guess it’s true things move fast when you meet the right person.”

The couple have planned a small wedding planned for 2009 in Chicago.

(Press Release)

JASON MESNICK GETS A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE WHEN HE STARS IN “THE BACHELOR,” RETURNING TO ABC IN JANUARY 2009

Jason Hopes the “Third Time is the Charm”

Millions of viewers were stunned when DeAnna Pappas rejected Jason Mesnick’s proposal, as he dropped to one knee to profess his love in the season finale of “The Bachelorette.” Brokenhearted and wondering how he could have misjudged DeAnna’s intentions, Jason’s female fans flocked to support him, helping him heal from his very public dismissal. Now this handsome single dad will star in his own bid for true love, choosing from among 25 bachelorettes when “The Bachelor” returns to ABC in January 2009. This will be the 13th edition of ABC’s popular romance reality series.

Andrew Baldwin is a very busy man. This weekend he was spotted with Dancing With the Stars’ Karina Smirnoff at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas. Witnesses saw the pair by the pool at the hotel, being very affectionate. Smirnoff just recently broke up with Mario Lopez, and Baldwin was dating Marla Maples earlier this year.

You know, there was a time when The Bachelor was the show where people had a good shot of living happily ever after. At least for a little while, anyway. Those days seems to be long gone. British Bachelor Matt Grant and actress Shayne Lamas, daughter of Lorenzo Lamas, have split up. Rumor has it that Shayne dumped Matt over the phone, devastating him. But that’s not exactly how he describes the break up.

Grant was quoted in People magazine as saying that they realized they were “going in different directions.” They were only together off of the show for a couple of months. That’s not even enough time to decide that you’re going in the same direction, but in dog years it is two years, so I’m thinking they gave the old Daschund try.

Another of the ABC’s Bachelors is a bachelor no more. Vinter Andrew Firestone got married this weekend to Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic. The two announced their engagement in October, and were wed Saturday at St. Marks in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos, California.

Andrew was on the third installment of The Bachelor, where he met his former finance Jen Schefft in 2003. Schefft went on to write the book, Better Single Than Sorry: A No Regrets Guide to Loving Yourself and Never Settling.

Andrew Firestone of the reality show The Bachelor will be a bachelor no more when he marries Ivana Bozilovic next month.

Andrew, who was previously engaged to Jen Schefft in 2003. Schefft was the woman he chose as he mate on the third season of the ABC reality show. He has been engaged to Bozilovic since 2007. The two will be getting married July 5th at Firestone’s family winery in Santa Ynez, CA.

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Well, the first person I would like to see on the show is Star Jones, whose “friendly pairing” with Dwyane Wade has been giving me slight stomach cramps all week. But I don’t think that is going to happen.

Nostalgia network TV Land, whose reality show niche seems to be geared to the over 40 crowd, has just ordered a show that sounds like a cross between The Bachelor and Age of Love for women. The show, which was developed by High School Reunion’sMike Fleiss , will have an older woman looking for love from a younger man.

According to the press release:

“TV Land announced today the pickup of a new elimination dating series, Untitled Cougar Project, where eligible young men vie for the attention of a sexy and accomplished mature woman (the Cougar). Through a series of creative and romantic challenges, the men will be eliminated weekly — all at the discretion of the Cougar. The network will produce one-hour episodes slated to air in early 2009. Casting for participants has begun nationwide.”

The Bachelor 10’s Andy Baldwin, 31, was spotted this weekend cuddling with Donald Trump’s ex-wife, 44 year old Marla Maples.

The couple were together at Debbie Gibson’s Camp Electric  Youth auditions. Sources say that they have been dating secretly for a year, and have now decided to go public. They make a very good looking couple. On his cycle of the ABC reality show, Andy chose Tessa Horst, and they were engaged to be married, until last August.