Bachelorgate Day 2: The Secret E-Mails!
Following Monday night's bombshell end of The Bachelor, Access Hollywood has posted what it says are e-mails exchanged between Melissa and Jason after the taping of the reunion special on which he threw her over for runner-up Molly. (h/t tvtattle.)
If you respect Melissa and Jason's privacy—and who doesn't respect the privacy of two stars of a primetime dating show?—then you will not read them. Naturally, I didn't. But, you know, if you chose to, you'd see that Jason attempted to foist off responsibility for the public deep-sixing ("The producers had a lot to do with it") and that—maybe surprisingly for someone on a TV dating show—Melissa seems genuinely hurt and angry, the way people in real relationships do when they get dumped. ("You are a grown man, and perfectly capable of making your own decisions.")
At least that's what I'm guessing the e-mails say. Something like that. Because like I said, I would never read them.
Now: does anyone doubt that Melissa has an edition of The Bachelorette in her future? (Update: Well, not next time around, anyway—third-place Jillian will headline the next season.) And any chance of getting Ty a reality show in which he gets to pick a new dad?
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They asked Melissa to be the next Bachelorette, but she was still so pissed that she turned them down, along with a pretty hefty paycheck from what I hear. So, they moved onto 3rd place finisher Jillian, whose season of the Bachelorette begins May 18.
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Happy Lost Day, BTW.
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Of all the shows on television, the least interesting in my book are the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. They have none the redeeming values of a really bad blind date and all of the fun. They are to honesty in relationships what the Titanic was to maritime safety without the benefit of fostering reform. I'd rather play solitary than waste hours of my life finding out (and not caring about it) whether any of the 'beautiful people' selected by a panel of personal trainers and dental hygienists actually give a damn about each other and not the camera. It's not entertainment. It's not torture. It's the black hole of television, devoid of anything of value. I pity those who find it interesting, and wish for them to get lives about which they care more than the fake ones presented to them through these shows.
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Um... what carpevis said, but nicer... Also for some reason I enjoy reading the write ups here on those shows, which is strange.
- poniewozik @LaurelSnyder that falls under the "stuffing is not dessert" rule for me. - 8 hours ago
- poniewozik No spoilers, but next #fnl is the best ep yet of the new season and Zach Gilford's best work on the show. - 13 hours ago
- poniewozik @carr2n Not so fast, Carr. That means you owe us a substitute windy blog post. Chop chop! - 15 hours ago
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