Melissa Rycroft Now Owns A Disco Ball

Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani are your new Dancing With The Stars champions. They beat fellow all stars Shawn Johnson and Kelly Monaco and also proved that someone who was on the Bachelor can actually win the show. I am happy Melissa won, but I am thrilled about Tony winning. He has been trying and trying for 14 seasons to win and he finally did. Melissa can probably turn this into some kind of one season reality show if she wanted or she could divorce her husband and go on Bachelorette. Nah, I don't think that is going to happen.

Bachelor Competition For Attention

Did anyone else find it really interesting that almost immediately after the news broke that Jason Mesnick had asked Molly Malaney to marry him that the previously embarrassed Melissa Rycroft made her first wave in the news in months by saying she had found the perfect wedding dress. Seriously had anyone even heard a peep from Melissa since she was on Dancing With The Stars? Me either and then all of a sudden Jason and Molly announce their engagement and Melissa pops up on Good Morning America this morning and says "Look at me. Remember? I'm the one who got dumped on national television and now I have a wedding dress because I am getting married too. Talk about me please." Yes, Jason screwed you over and yes ABC probably did it for ratings but can we move on now? Please.

I'm A Little Confused About This Whole Melissa Rycroft Engagement Thing

Yesterday I saw the news that former Bachelor and DWTS contestant Melissa Rycroft had got engaged over the weekend. Even if you don't watch The Bachelor, I'm sure you remember the controversy about how Melissa thought she was going to marry Jason Mesnick and then he ended up breaking up with her live on television in front of the world. So, then we all felt sorry for Melissa and ABC gave her the spot on Dancing With The Stars and that's that.

Her whole "thing" was that we were supposed to feel sorry for her for getting dumped and that she was truly in love with Jason the ass and that she had her heart broken.

So, when I read that she was engaged, I thought to myself, ok, that's a little fast, but its been five months so I could see it. Then I read more and discover that she and her boyfriend have been dating on and off for over two years and they took a break so she could go on The Bachelor. Ummm. WTF? They took a break so she could go see if she could find a guy to get married to on a television show? What kind of relationship is that? Now, I didn't watch the show but did she tell Jason the ass that she was taking a break from her long term boyfriend to be on the show?

Would that have been something Jason discovered and would lead to him breaking up with her? Immediately after Jason dumped her Melissa got back together with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, in addition to getting her 15 minutes on The Bachelor she picked up $200K for being on DWTS and got a job as a reporter this summer with Good Morning America.

Jason is an ass, but after reading about her engagement I get the feeling that Jason was not long for her as a boyfriend, and that she was using The Bachelor just to get ahead in the world of entertainment.

The Bachelor Must Hate Dancing With The Stars

By next week, I think the whole Bachelor episode would have faded from our collective consciousness. The 24 hour news cycle really wouldn't have allowed it to continue as we would have moved on to other news. Unfortunately for Jason Mesnick, Nancy O'Dell dropped out of Dancing With The Stars, and ABC made the brilliant move to bring on Melissa Rycroft as her replacement. Brilliant for ABC and for ratings, and devastating for the tool known as Jason Mesnick. Now, for as long as Melissa continues to remain on the show, and judging by her performance last night and her popularity with viewers that could be a very long run, Jason Mesnick will have to relive his tool behavior repeatedly each week over the course of the show.

Take for example a review of Melissa's performance yesterday from People. They didn't even bother talking about her scores until the last paragraph. Instead they lead with the fact that she had been screwed over by Jason. Every week, the world will be reminded what an a-hole he is. Thanks ABC.

Bachelor Even A Bigger Jackass Than We Thought

I really didn't think that Bachelor guy Jason Mesnick could be a bigger ass than after what I heard the other day, but I was wrong. It turns out that he can be a bigger ass and that he is indeed setting a fine example for his kid. Melissa Rycroft, who was the jilted woman in this whole scenario was on Ellen today and she set the record straight and that Jason pretty much lied to her from the day the show finished taping right up until the time they taped the After The Rose show.

It seems that Jason was keeping in touch with Molly Malaney and that Melissa caught him one time but that he said he was checking to make sure she was ok and that she was handling the loss ok. At the time she thought that was a very kind thing to do. Of course she didn't know they were probably talking 100 times a day and that he and Molly already had a plan hatched.

Jason, it seems was backing off and backing off from his relationship with Melissa and so she kept asking him if everything was ok and alright with their relationship and he kept saying yes, and that everything was fine.

At one point, Melissa even asked him if there was another woman and he always said no. Even on the day of the taping of the show, she asked him if Molly was involved with anything and Jason said, "no, gosh no." Well first of all who says gosh in a situation like that? Jason apparently kept lying to her all the way until they were walking out on the stage. Just as the camera lights turned on, he leaned over to her and said, "P.S. it is Molly."

F**k me. I would have walked off the stage and let him explain his way out of it, or would have just trashed him constantly during the program and talked about how he was a liar and was cheating on her and just make his life more miserable than a Denise Richards marriage.