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Twitter'The Bachelor' Betrayal: Blame It on Melissa's Parents
Rumors that Jason Mesnick will choose Melissa on next Monday's Bachelor finale only to dump her during the After the Rose ceremony in favor of runner-up Molly have now given way to a report that attempts to cast Jason in a light slightly more glowing than "cad."According to a message board poster on the Reality Steve site, what we're about to see is indeed along the lines of what was originally leaked but that Melissa's actions result in Jason's change of heart, rather than some grand ABC ratings plan.
The poster claims to be a 67-year-old former ABC employee who still knows many people involved with the show.
He says that Jason proposes to Melissa and she accepts. The trouble begins when they return to the hotel and she calls her parents to break the happy news.
As viewers will remember, Melissa's parents were the ones absent from the hometown visits episode. At the time Melissa said that they were private people who were not comfortable with being on camera. Making things even stranger was the fact that none of Melissa's friends have ever met them either.
It seems in addition to their hermit-like tendencies, her parents are also not too keen on the potential of a match made on national television. They are against her getting engaged. She returns to Jason and tells him that she thinks they should slow things down and get to know each other better.
Supposedly, Jason does not take this well and then breaks down crying and says that he fell in love with both Melissa and Molly and made his choice based on who he thought wanted to be with him more. Clearly, he was wrong and should have gone with Molly to begin with.Then comes the After the Rose special where Jason says that Melissa became more and more distant and gave off the impression that she never seriously wanted to see their relationship lead to marriage. Feeling rejected, Jason calls up Molly and starts dating her.
Rumor has it all three key players are on hand to hash out what went down and Melissa ultimately leaves the stage.
So, two versions of the story with the same outcome: Jason picks Melissa, ends up with Molly.
Does this spin on the story make things any better? Or if Jason really loved Melissa would he try to work it out and win over her parents rather than going with the easier Door No. 2 option?
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Why would you pick someone that you really do not wanna be with?? I guess we now know why there is a BACHELOR
Tammy, the article says he fell in love with both and picked the one he thought wanted more to be with him. It's not like he didn't care for Melissa. Well we will have to wait to find out what really happened, or was manufactured to happen...
No, that spin still doesn't put him in a better light. Still a cad.
Once again this points to the fact that this is all too rushed and you can't put love on a timetable. I also think this becomes too much of a competition for the "prize". Since when is another human being a prize to be won. Leave the prize winning to the Amazing Race and Survivor.
They've showed the scene of Jason bawling his eyes out from week 1 of this season. At that point he was still saying in interviews that he was happily engaged. He hasn't said that he is engaged any time recently, so he would have still been engaged to Melissa at that point. I think the rest of the story may be accurate, but I definitely think he cries when he breaks up with Molly.
I honestly thing he is crazy. He should of picked Jillian. She is so perfect for him. I think the way this should end is having her come back. From everything I am hearing and if its true that he ends up with Molly, I can tell you right now I will never watch this show again. This is crazy. Why would there be a perfect match and then dump the perfect match. Is he that blind? or is this just all script for ratings? Makes me wonder. I only started watching this because of the Deanna thing otherwise I would of never wasted my time with shows that never really end up having an true meaning.
I agree about Jillian. I think when she said she wants to marry her best friend, Jason thought she just wanted a close friend, but Jillian meant that her husband would be her best friend as well. For some reason Jason couldn't understand that or he thinks a best friend should be a male 'buddy'.
He still should have went with Jill.
c'mon guys you can't watch this show expecting any great meaning and high standard. i mean look at the set-up. what kind of person picks a mate on tv in this insulting manner? how can you expect anything to begin with? and now everyone is disappointed? we should all be disappointed that true love parades as "The Bachelor." at least other reality shows are mostly just silly fun, but this is worse because it denigrates something that should actually be true and real--that being LOVE.
What they really need to do is take this damn show off the air!!! The idiots come on the show always proclaiming, "I'm looking for love," "I'm looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with," "I found love." "I'm so in love with (insert name)." I'm falling in love with (insert name)." Yada-yada-yada... Yeah, right!!! They're sooooo in love with the person at the end of the show proclaiming their undying love but never get married. What a crock of BS!! Trista and Ryan will always probably be the only REAL success story.
You nailed it Laura...Jason is still a cad!
Let's be clear why Melissa's parents were not on the show. First, they opposed her going on the show, but she thought they would change their mind if she made the final 4, but they didn't. Now this sounds like a reasonable and loving Dad, Mel told Jason "my dad said he couldn't be himself, when he needed to be himself" (meaning he wouldn't be comfortable before cameras and couldn't ask Jason the questions he need to). She told him that her dad said "a moment like this should be cherished." Sounds ok by me, but if my daughter was about to be embarr***ed by us being a no-show, we would have muddled through it somehow.
By the way, ABC's story is a load of BS. They are just trying to cover for their goldenboy, Jason. Melissa was there to be burned in order for a shocking finale that would keep the show afloat, since it has had the best ratings they have had in over 5 years. We now know that it was NEVER Melissa and was ALWAYS Molly as far as Jason was concerned. Jason turned out to be worse than ALL the ex-bf who her friend said "used and abused" her. He does it on national tv. He completely blindsides her and breaks up with her at the After the Final Rose which follows the finale next Monday night. Not only that, he tells her he has been seeing Molly (the #2 girl) behind her back. This was all planned from the getgo bo ABC and Jason. Mel was played and played badly. Jason is not only a cad, but a jerk and an a**h***.