The Bachelor New Season!

[Sicy]

Who the hell is that?

[Carek1230]

That isn't that girl Jennie is it?

[ultravioletluvv]

That's Mary! Apparently she was arrested for hitting Byron in the mouth! Alcohol was a factor.

How sad. These two seemed so normal.

[deep]

Originally posted by Sicy
Who the hell is that?

I thought she looked a wee bit like you.

In a good way.
now , please hit me in the mouth

[Doozer61]

[Sicy]

Um yeah no.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Ellen DeGeneres apologized in person to Brad Womack on her talk show Friday for calling him a jerk, then got his side of the story – that he didn't take the easy way out by not picking a partner on The Bachelor, and that he regrets only one thing he said to finalist DeAnna Pappas.

DeGeneres asked him about one moment from the show in particular – when he told Pappas that the finale would be "a good day" for her.

"I definitely regret that," Womack, 35, replied. "I don't know if I got caught up in the moment. I don't know if I was trying to comfort her. I bear the full brunt of responsibility for saying that. I do. She deserves someone to be straightforward and honest, which I thought I was. That's one very, very bad decision of mine that I made."

But Womack attempted to set the record straight on another point: He said he never asked that Pappas's father be flown out to the set, which had also gotten her hopes up for a marriage proposal.

"What I did say is a proposal was such a big deal to me that a phone call was not sufficient, if and when that proposal would happen," he said. "When it got to that day, I was informed that Deanna's father was flown out. I never one time asked for Deanna's father to be flown out. Never one single time."

Womack also said he's been shocked by the backlash against him, and feels like he's going through a breakup himself.

"I did not take the easy way out," he said. "In fact, I took the tough way out in order to show these women respect, in my opinion. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong."

DeGeneres, who had apologized to Womack on the air Thursday, did so again Friday. "I really appreciate you coming here," she said. "I'm so sorry that I judged you because I didn't know the full story."

[Doozer61]

I actually saw that while I was channel surfing. He still seems like a jerk and Ellen was trying to get him to fess up but he is still sticking to his story.

[Sicy]

Yeah.. blah blah blah.

[Carek1230]

Why in hell does he have to make his way around the talk show circuit anyway? Bank every last dime he can on it? There's no saving his reputation. People think he is a jerk and he IS a jerk. That's not gonna change no matter what he says or to whom he says it. In my opinion it's old news. What's done is done. Let him suffer and feel bad like the women he spurned. I hope the show also loses viewers, I don't have any interest in watching any more, it's a joke.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Bachelorette next summer


MSNBC

The Bachelorette," the spin-off of "The Bachelor" that features a woman selecting from a group of men, hasn't aired since February of 2005, when its third season concluded.

But the ABC reality series will return for a fourth season next summer. There's no official word yet about who will star in it.

Will the show recycle a rejected woman from a previous "Bachelor" season, or go with a star who has yet to appear on the franchise? (ABC has continued to air "The Bachelor" almost non-stop, and will air that show's 12th season in the spring.)

The first season of "The Bachelorette," by the way, is the only "Bachelor" season — out of a total of 14 — to produce a lasting, successful relationship. Perhaps bringing the spin-off series back may give the franchise a better shot at creating a lasting relationship. Or perhaps not.