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RealityFreakWill:
This is what Trista Sutter has to say about the finale...

Trista Goes OFF on the Bachelor!

So what does "Bachelorette" Trista Sutter think about single dad Jason Mesnick's change of heart?


Did you watch "The Bachelor" last night?? In case you missed it -- Bachelor Jason proposed to Melissa, only to DUMP her on national TV and tell Molly (the girl he dissed in the finale) that he loved HER instead! "Bachelorette" Trista Sutter weighs in on the most controversial "Bachelor" ever.

How do you feel about Jason right now?

Trista: How could you go from being engaged to someone to kissing someone else on the couch?! He doesn't deserve to walk away scot-free. I mean, what disappointed me as a mom is that he introduced both girls to Ty (Jason's son). Melissa was around, and now she's gone. What is Ty going to think?

What's your message for Melissa?

Trista: I've spoken with Melissa. How could anyone do this?! I texted her last night and said, "I'm proud of the way you handled it." She deserves so much better! Melissa hasn't been able to say anything about this until now, so I think she's relieved. I am happy she can finally move on. As far as I'm concerned, this is a blessing in disguise. Now she can find someone who truly loves her.

What are your thoughts on Molly?

Trista: How can you trust him? I wouldn't trust what he is saying to me. He is obviously fickle. He didn't want to fight for the relationship between he and Melissa. He gave up. If you have such strong feelings for someone, at least give it a chance before making such a big decision.

Some blogs are reporting this was set up by producers. Do you think last night was rigged?

Trista: I don't know what Jason's contract says, but I don't believe the producers could have manipulated the ending to this extent. I think Jason definitely had a choice in how he broke off the engagement -- either publicly or in private. Ryan and I don't think the producers could force him into something like that.

Have you ever seen a "Bachelor" cry so much?

Trista: I do feel for him. For me, I did not cry when I had to break it off with Charlie, because I was so excited for Ryan to come. I did not fall in love with two people, so I cannot speak to that. If that's the case, I'm sure it was difficult. But why put a ring on someone's finger if you're that torn? He took that away from Melissa. She only wanted to get engaged ONE time. He took that from her.

Do you think Melissa should be the next "Bachelorette"?

Trista: I can't comment on that, but I think America would embrace her. After all she's been through.

http://www.momlogic.com/2009/03/trista_sutter_bachelor_jason_mesnick.php

tory:
wow ty will that was a lot to read, my head is spinning..

i have my own theroies on this whole thing.. i do think that jason had to break up on tv for several reasons one the ring, 2 the batchlor franchis could not just leave us hanning. he probly did go to the producers and told them he made a mistake and they did have to do damage control.
as far as steve goes yes he found out and told us as soon as he new, so what bc he was the only one not under contract and could run his mouth he did.i realy don't think to much of reality steve, jmo
the e-mails he produced only made what jason said last night more ligit, they were sent right after the after tapeing, and it had the same tone as the words both of them said on the show.

i think jason did fall in love with2 ppl and i allso think that if de anna (the bitch) had notshowen up he might have picket molly, she was all don't do what i did i picked some one fun blh blh blh..

i realy think he was fowlling his head not his gut or his heart and picked mellisa, she did seem to get along with ty better and was what he pictured his wife to look like, she does resimble deann and his x wife, he porblly has commitment issues, i no i was dovorced once and i would not wish that on my worse enamy. it realy does change who u r.

my current hubby had to beg me to marrie him and he is hot and 15 yrs younger than me. oh and i have 3 kids.. who he raised we have been married 14 yrs..

the other thing is i all so in my younger days  would go out with as they say now 2 guys at one time i rember one time i was like 15 i think i liked 2 guys with the same last name i did not want to chose so i did not, untill they were both at this one dance and i had to chose i am 51 and i still rember how bad i felt.

any way several hunderd yrs later lol i totaly can see how jason could have been in love with both and when forced to choise and i think he if there is any conspircy here was forced to choise after brad they probly did put that in the contract.did what he thought was right only to b wrong..
ok jmo

RealityFreakWill:
Bachelor Creator: The Outcome Was Never Staged

ABC’s reality series The Bachelor has had its share of surprising endings, but Jason Mesnick’s on-camera breakup with fiancée Melissa Rycroft and subsequent reunion with runner-up Molly Malaney has been by far the most shocking. But online rumors persist: Was the show’s outcome fixed?

As Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss tells PEOPLE, “That’s patently untrue. It was [Jason's] choice in New Zealand who he proposed to.” But after the show wrapped, Fleiss says, “He was not in love with Melissa anymore and he was in love with Molly and he needed to make a change.”

In fact, no one saw this coming, says Fleiss, who upon returning to the States “was in the process of trying to talk Molly into being the Bachelorette.” “She was finally starting to come around and saying she wanted to do it, and she had spoken to her family,” he says. “I thought she would be a fantastic Bachelorette, so likeable and beautiful and telegenic.”

A week later, Fleiss learned that Jason and Melissa were not getting along, and that he had never stopped thinking about Molly. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, too bad,’” Fleiss says. “My next thought was, ‘Wow, that’s almost too good!’ I knew that was a remarkable twist.

“At that point, the decision was made to bring all three parties into the studio to film After the Final Rose, the most shocking After the Final Rose in Bachelor history,” Fleiss says. “It was never anyone’s plan.”

Host Chris Harrison also tells PEOPLE, “We haven’t shown breakups before, but we’ve never had this situation. We couldn’t not show that.”

While Harrison maintains Jason was “head over heels in love with [Melissa],” he adds, “There’s nothing we can change or do about” his eventual change of heart.

Says Harrison: “We just had to show it. We were holding on by the seat of our pants.”


http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/03/03/bachelor-creator-the-outcome-was-never-planned/

RealityFreakWill:
The Bachelor Episode Recap: "After the Final Rose, Part 2"

Welcome to the recap of The Bachelor: After the Final Rose. Part Two. Lord, when will it end? This is an extra hour of The Bachelor, which comes after last night's extra hour, in which Jason dumped Melissa, the woman he proposed to in the last episode of the show, and started something up with Molly, the woman he dumped in the last episode.

In this episode, Jason answers a bunch of questions about his six-week-old relationship with Molly, and we meet the next Bachelorette. In case all those viewers who say they'll never watch the Bachelor/ette again after this season are lying.

I'm here again with my lovely fiancée, under duress, because we are so, so tired of this show. Maybe the reason they need all these extra hours is that the first 10 minutes of every show are recaps of what's already happened? Anyway, the same is true tonight.

Chris Harrison welcomes us back from the commercial to note that Jason's decision has been "controversial." Meaning, everyone hates him. Chris then welcomes back a bunch of the contestants who escaped before the start of our long, national nightmare.

Stephanie, the single-mom widow and audience favorite, says she thinks Jason and Molly can last. Naomi, the one with the wacky family, says she wanted to put a fist through the screen when Jason ditched her girl Melissa. Erica, who got kicked off the show so long ago neither my fiancée nor I remember her, keeps talking about stuff.

Fiancée: Want to bet dinner on who the next Bachelorette is?

Me: Okay — I say Melissa.

Fiancée: No way. Jillian.

Chris asks people in the studio audience for their opinions. One woman who's been married for 21 years is disappointed Jason would put Melissa through what he did. A Molly fan says he did the right thing.

"Who's really mad?" Chris asks.

A nice-seeming woman says she's angry Jason didn't decide what he wanted sooner. But she doesn't seem that angry. Because really, how angry can anyone be? A show based on a ridiculous premise — that you can meet the love of your life on a TV show — has ended ridiculously.

Next, a guy appears. A guy is there!

"I would never propose to somebody if I had that reaction to somebody else," The Guy says.

Fiancée: Can you imagine bawling your eyes out about one girl and then proposing to me?

Me: Am I on a TV show and are you someone I've only known for a couple weeks? Just kidding. I only cry while watching Wall-E.

Jason comes out on stage.

Fiancée: Booooooooooo!

The audience applauds politely. Chris asks Jason what reaction he was expecting.

Jason says he didn't handle things in the classiest possible way, but he did what he had to do, and Oh my God they're replaying another clip.

Half an hour has passed, and really nothing has happened. It's hard to build a clip show around events that we all saw a mere 24 hours ago.

Oh wait, Jason might cry again. He's doing that shaky voice thing I do when Wall-E gives Eve the plant. But he recovers.

"It was just honest," Jason says of the ridiculous thing he did.

Chris reminds Jason that many people across America are very, very angry.

Fiancée: It's so funny how personally people take this.

Me: No it's not. This is very important.

Chris asks Jason if he can tell his son Ty what he did. Jason says yes.

Fiancée: If you had a son, would you show him video of you crying like a sissy man on a balcony?

Me: ...

Fiancée: I'm going to tape you watching Wall-E.

Melissa, Chris says, has declined to appear tonight —

Fiancée: Booooooooooo!

— but she says through Chris that she's doing really well.

Molly walks out.

Fiancée: Jellyfish.

Me: Why Jellyfish?

Fiancée: She has no spine.

We cut to yet another clip of something that happened 24 hours ago: Molly agreeing to start things up with Jason again just moments after he's dumped Melissa.

Fiancée: She is such a bad example for women. She's such a sucker.

Me: If you had to choose: sucker or a jellyfish?

Fiancée: A jellyfish. She seems desperate. She's willing to accept this no-good guy who already dumped her on national television. The engagement ring is still fresh off the other girl's finger.

Molly says people keep making unfair judgments about her character, and that they don't realize the characters on the show are real human beings. "These people who say these things don't realize the damage their words can do," Molly says.

Chris brings Jason back to the stage. Jason kisses Molly and sits with his arm around her. They say their relationship is much stronger because of all they've been through.

"We've become best friends, and partners in crime," Jason says. "The passion's still there, and the fun's still there."

Way to keep it interesting after six weeks, kids.

Jason and Molly say they talk on the phone a lot and have seen each other on a few weekends. Molly says she plans to move to Seattle, and the audience applauds, because they obviously want to see her make a terrible decision.

Chris asks them when they knew they were in love. Neither has an answer. Chris presents them with the tent where they went to first base (according to Jason) early in the show.

Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for: Chris introduces the new Bachelorette: Jillian. My fiancée gets a dinner I probably would have bought her anyway. Because she's not a jellyfish.

http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/bachelor/Bachelor-Episode-Recap-1003639.aspx

RealityFreakWill:
From Dallas News...

'The Bachelor' sparks furor over last-minute change of heart (assuming he has a heart)

"Jerk." "Idiot." "Creep." "Sleaze."

These were the choice words that fans of The Bachelor had for Jason Mesnick after Monday's finale and the After the Final Rose special, during which he broke up with Dallas native Melissa Rycroft only to ask runner-up Molly Malaney to take him back.

From Facebook to former Bachelorette Trista Sutter, many were livid about how Rycroft, a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, was treated by the man she'd hoped was her one true love.

So on Tuesday night's After the Final Rose: Part Two, Mesnick tried to explain himself.

"It was definitely not the classiest thing in the world, but I had to follow my heart," he said. "Are there things I'd probably do differently? Maybe. But I don't regret where I'm at at all." His feelings for Malaney began growing the minute after he sent her home: "I slowly started realizing, 'Oh, my God. It was her.' " Then, the Bachelor got brave. "Even though I've had to hurt people in a way, I feel like I did it with integrity," he said. As for Malaney, she says criticism from viewers has been tough. "But, luckily, I've had Jason to lean on, and we're happier than ever now."

But it will take a lot of wooing to win viewers back after Monday night, when he dumped Rycroft and kissed Malaney in record time.

Fans – or former fans – didn't exactly throw rice at the happy couple.

"Jason is a creep," one viewer wrote on a message board. "Chris Harrison is a bigger creep."

Harrison tried to explain the show's position on his blog at the Entertainment Weekly Web site, ew.com: "You have to understand that we want a proposal, and we want a true happy ending," he wrote Tuesday. Harrison said he had thought that was what they were going to deliver.

But, later, Harrison heard that Mesnick still had feelings for Malaney. "I will be honest when I tell you that my heart sank," he wrote. "My first thought was, 'Oh, my God, he's going to do the unthinkable and make the switch.' ... I was right."

Ellen Degeneres, who will have Harrison on today's show, Rycroft Thursday and the happy couple Friday, didn't hold back her disgust.

"We'll see how long that lasts," she said about the couple on Tuesday's broadcast. "He's going to change his mind again, probably. I'm mad, and I don't care what anybody says. I'm mad."

She's in good company. Sutter, with husband Ryan the only successful pairing so far from the Bachelor franchise, told momlogic.com that Mesnick "doesn't deserve to walk away scot-free."

It seems fitting that the host of the show, who has to deliver the old "Ladies, this is the final rose" pronouncements every season, should get the final word.

"I know many of you have sworn to me that this is it – you will never watch again," he wrote on his blog.

On the other hand, "I'll keep your side of the bed warm in case you decide to come back home."

http://www.guidelive.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/television/stories/DN-bachelor_0304gd.ART.State.Edition1.4a5958d.html

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