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RealityFreakWill:
Latest sneak peek promo video of The Bachelor....it even shows Deanna paying a visit to Jason!


credit and thanks to cupcakes153

RealityFreakWill:
Interview with The Seattle Times...

Kirkland's Jason Mesnick spills about "The Bachelor"

Local Jason Mesnick, of Kirkland, is the star of the next "The Bachelor," which premieres Monday on ABC. In an interview, he talks about being engaged; the breakup of Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas and snowboarder Jesse Csincsak; being the Bachelor and his son Ty.

By Nicole Tsong
Seattle Times staff reporter



When Jason Mesnick, of Kirkland, acts like his life is normal, he goes out to eat in Belltown, takes his 3-year-old, Ty, to the zoo or the golf course and does not answer questions about the breakup of Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak.

But as ABC's newest Bachelor — a fan favorite after Pappas rejected him for snowboarder Csincsak in "The Bachelorette" finale — he's spending a lot of time telling people he's "shocked" about their split. Oh, and he's engaged and in love. (To whom, we don't know: Mesnick has finished filming the show, but can't reveal his final pick until the finale, which should air in March or April.)

In other real news, Mesnick eats his eggs scrambled and laughs at himself when asked to tilt his head and look into the camera for a picture. He didn't think to unlist his address before going on "The Bachelorette," and came home to thousands of letters and people waiting outside his house to offer him "opportunities."

With "The Bachelor" set to premiere Monday on ABC with a two-hour special starting at 8 p.m., Mesnick will have to get used to the new normal.

Mesnick, 32, who grew up in the area and graduated from the University of Washington, sat down for breakfast at Trellis in Kirkland to talk about the show shortly after filming "The Bachelor" finale.

Q: Most dramatic moment ever: Jesse's video about his split from DeAnna. What did you think?

A: I just heard through everybody else. I just can't believe it. I was completely shocked. Ask anybody in my regular world. I would say, 'Yeah, they're going to get married and they're going to invite me to the wedding, too.' I truly, truly believed it.

Q: How did the experience on the "Bachelor" compare to falling for DeAnna on "The Bachelorette"?

A: Everything happens for a reason. I wouldn't trade my experience with my ex-wife for anything; I wouldn't trade my experience with DeAnna for anything. But this, this is forever stuff. And it blows my experience on "The Bachelorette" away. DeAnna was right, and I can thank her for not picking me, because I found the right person for me.

Q: What kind of girl did you want to meet?

A: The person who has that spark of life, the person that really enjoys getting to know people. I started realizing through my experience last time they also had to have their own experience done in life, whether that's going through a real single phase and dating a lot of people and traveling a lot or partying a lot. My life has more responsibility than just a regular bachelor.

Q: Did you have hesitations about becoming the Bachelor?

A: It wasn't an easy yes. When I went on ["The Bachelorette"], I really made sure my son was going to be OK. I checked with the child therapist, I checked with the pediatrician. They said, 'He's going to be fine. He's 3 ½ years old, their sense of time is a little bit different from ours anyway.' It was still hard [this time] because I didn't want to be away from him. I thought about it for several weeks, and it made sense. If they're going to go out across the country for 25 amazing girls that I'm looking for, asking me what kind of qualities are you looking for, what kind of interests, how could it not work?

Q: Except the Bachelor doesn't have the best success record. None of the 12 Bachelors so far has married his final pick — although two Bachelor couples are reportedly still together. You're Bachelor No. 13. How will it be different for you?

A: It starts with the person who's the Bachelor or Bachelorette. They are the only one who knows the true answer if they're ready for a serious relationship. I knew exactly what I'm looking for.

Q: Do you have a game plan for the next three months when you have to keep the relationship a secret and she is watching you on dates?

A: There are probably reasons why it hasn't worked out and it may have something to do with it how you approach what's going to happen during airing and immediately after. I want to make sure whatever people did that worked, I want to take pieces of that, and whatever didn't work, I want to throw those away. This has to work, and that's why I did it.

Q: Can you really fall in love in such a short time-frame, on television?

A: Everything moves quicker. The things you talk about on your first date or second date are things you might not talk about until your first or second month. You get to know people quickly. That's how you can fall in love faster, too, I think.

Q: What does Ty think about your new fiancée?

A: Ty had a great time with both of them. It was just the last two. There's no way I wanted to introduce him to a group of 25 or 8 or 6. I knew I couldn't fully give myself to somebody in my heart until I saw him with them, saw how he interacted with them and how they interacted with them. It's something his mom and I talked about a lot.

Q: How much does Ty know about the show?

A: Ty knows about the TV guys. Everybody's great with him. He's got this whole group of friends, some are audio people, some are producers, some of them are camera guys. I think he just thinks I have a goofy group of friends.

Q: Does his mom have him while you're filming?

A: She travels a lot more for work, so when I'm gone it's either her parents, who live here, or my mom and my brothers, who live here. It's the crew.

Q: Have you heard about DeAnna's new Lifetime show helping brides plan their weddings? It premieres on the same day as "The Bachelor."

A: I just heard about it. (Jokingly) DeAnna and I are linked forever. She's got a great personality. I'll watch it.

Q: In more Bachelor gossip, did you know

A: A grandma in Montana? No. Is it his grandma?

Q: It's a random grandma who likes Jesse.

A: I like the grandma fan. That's hilarious.

Q: Are you planning to stay in Seattle?

A: I'm staying in Seattle without a doubt. I would never take my son away from his mom, and she would never take him away from me. That's the thing Ty does for me, he completely grounds me.

Q: Is your fiancée moving here?

A: If she doesn't live here. It's a big world, right? If she doesn't live here, she will definitely end up here.

RealityFreakWill:
Same interview with Seattle Times but here's the video portion....

Credit and thanks to cupcakes153

marigold:
An interesting article:

The Bachelor's' Jason Mesnick gets his turn

In the world of unscripted television, only "The Bachelorette" and "The Bachelor" claim to offer the most coveted prize of all, above money and fame: love.

When the latest season of "The Bachelor" begins Monday, fans of finding true love in six weeks will see a first for the show: a single dad, from Kirkland.

Jason Mesnick catapulted to fame last year when he was the runner-up on "The Bachelorette" and comes onboard with a son who's almost 4 years old. Mesnick already has let the ending out of the bag: He's engaged.

"You have to experience it to actually feel it! The cameras just don't matter to me at all," Mesnick told the P-I during a recent interview. "When you are there with someone you care about, that's all that matters. And since I wouldn't have met her any other way, then how could I doubt the cameras or process. It really did happen."

The only mystery for fans will be trying to figure out whom he chose.

Mesnick emphasizes his transparency. When asked what three words he would use to describe himself, he answered: "honest, trustworthy and loving."

"I don't use pick-up lines. It's always, 'Hey my name is Jason, what's your name?' I think there are people who try to come up with a pick-up line, and they're just trying too hard," said Mesnick, who has been single for about three years and who had been old-fashioned in his dating history -- no online matches, just asking whoever caught his eye out for coffee. "I'm just too transparent as a person. You don't want to go out with me, I hope you're going to tell me. I don't think I've ever used a pick-up line. I wouldn't be sitting here now if I did."

So, how did he get here?

Mesnick, 32, is a native of Cleveland but moved to the area when he was 8, the middle son of three brothers. His parents divorced when he was a teen, and he lived with his mother -- his role model -- who remarried and still lives in the area. His father remarried, as well, and moved to San Diego. Mesnick's older brother and family live in Sammamish.The close-knit family celebrated the holidays as they always do -- "the Christmas version of Hanukkah."

He attended Lake Washington High School. During that time, he worked at Safeway, where he met the girl who would be his first long-term girlfriend (three years).

"I remember being 15 and thinking there's no way. I had big glasses and braces, I think," he recalled. His first date wasn't what you'd call hot and heavy: It was with a group watching "The Silence of the Lambs" at someone's house.

He graduated from Lake Washington in 1994 and then attended the University of Washington. He graduated in 1998, belonging to the Theta Chi fraternity. His college years were spent enjoying the single life, including backpacking across Europe. He wanted his psychology major to lead toward a career as a child therapist.

Mesnick married in 2003 after dating for five years. By early 2005, his wife had left and by 2006, the marriage was over.

After working for Microsoft and later at AT&T Wireless and then on a Kenmore course as a golf pro, he decided to settle down with a job specializing in the insurance end of estate planning. It allowed him to take not one, but two, unpaid six-week leaves to do both shows. ABC did not pay him for his time.

He lives with his younger brother, Larry, in a house in Kirkland, sharing custody of his son, Ty, with his ex-wife, who lives in downtown Seattle.

While she has declined to comment on his appearance on the shows, he said, "She is real supportive of me and definitely wants me to find the love of my life."

It couldn't have been easy for her, to see the father of her son falling for another woman, DeAnna Pappas, in front of millions. Ultimately, rejection came very publicly to Mesnick. On bended knee, he was told no by Pappas. She chose snowboarder Jesse Csincsak. Mesnick dodged a bullet: That pair broke up four months later, consistent with all but one of the couples from "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette."

But that hurt you saw on national television -- that was not acting.

"I wouldn't have proposed if I didn't think it was going to be right forever," Mesnick said. "I was completely heartbroken, but I will say that after going through a divorce that, you know, it gave me a different perspective. If I hadn't gone through that with my ex, that probably would've crushed me more than it ever did. I was able to say I had an eight-year relationship that really hurt me, but I got a beautiful son from it, versus I met somebody I was in love with but she doesn't want to be with me. I was able to put that perspective around it."

Fatherhood changed his life. His "mini me" is the focus of his life. Choosing a life partner had to take into account how that would fit into a life of an active dad who plays golf and baseball with his son, someone who would rather eat a gyro and fries at Santorini's in downtown Kirkland than a rack of lamb.

"There's no way I would do this if I didn't have any money," he said. "I wouldn't put my son in a bad situation. I was never going to do anything that would negatively affect Tyler."

Why go to the extreme of finding love on TV?

"People expect me to meet someone in some crazy way. If online dating is the thing people do now, I'd probably be doing something different. I just thought about it, and I don't know: It was just a leap of faith. And you don't ever think it's going to happen, going through that process, that you're going to be on the show, or make it past the first night. But that person on the other side, there's a real connection. I'm looking for someone who's a partner for me forever and for someone who could mentor Ty, who could teach Ty a lot of things, have a great relationship with him, but never once am I thinking the word 'mom.' He's got a great mom."He has no regrets, or so he says.

"I can't even believe I ended up being on a TV show to find love. There's no part of me that thinks I want to be on another TV show," said Mesnick, who could pull off the acting part with his DVD-ready looks. "I'm not an actor, I'm never gonna be an actor. The reality thing of it for me was reality."

JASON MESNICK

Age: 32

Current car: Nissan Maxima

Superhero: Clark Kent (not Superman)

Boxers or briefs: Boxers  :flirt:

Experience on "The Bachelorette": "Fun"

Experience on "The Bachelor": "Amazing"

On whether there should be a same-sex "Bachelor" or "Bachelorette": "I don't see why not. I mean, I come from a relatively liberal family, liberal background, pretty open. I think it might be hard for America initially if you come from different parts of the country, but eventually something like that might happen, probably on a different channel. But eventually, why not?"

On what he's looking for: "I was also thinking of finding someone who had that spark in their eye, who gets along with everybody but genuinely cares about getting to know everybody else, when they walk into a room everyone wants to get to know that person, I remember thinking all those things were true. And I still think that, but I also realize that that person -- and it wasn't DeAnna -- has to have been through an experience in her life that makes her know she's ready for a commitment and marriage and all that stuff and that's different for everybody."

Link to the article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/394578_bachelor05.html?source=rss

RealityFreakWill:
There is speculation that Ty will take part of the final rose ceremony, not for the loser but the winner, and I think that's possible as from what I saw in the last sneak peek video, in the one scene, Jason and Ty both had white dress shirts and were getting ready and having a little pep talk.

I already know and have known for two weeks now who gets the final rose but am not going to spoil it on here as I'm sure many wants to be surprised when they see it on TV.

I'm really excited to watch the season as from what I've seen in all the promo videos, it looks like it's going to be a good season with the exception of one thing.....DeAnna! I wish she wouldn't have any part of it. But I know how it goes, they just like to increase the drama. 

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