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Watching the ABC reality dating show The Bachelor has been a guilty pleasure for Kimberley Kennedy for a while now. "I can't stop watching it," admits Kennedy, who hosts her own show, Hot Topics, on the ABC affiliate in Atlanta. "Every season, I say I'm going to stop watching it, and I can't. I'm pulled back in." So Kennedy was glued to the screen last week when the bachelor suddenly jilted his fiancée for another contestant in front an audience of more than 15 million viewers. No one watching was more shocked than Kennedy...
Dumped! Betrayed! Humiliated! For a week now, the reality-TV universe has been obsessed with The Bachelor and its "After the Final Rose" reunion special that many perceived to be little more than an act of public humiliation...
...While the show's season finale and reunion special were shown back-to-back on March 2, six weeks had elapsed between the finale - when bachelor Jason Mesnick chose Melissa Rycroft to be his bride -and the reunion special, during which he announced that he had changed his mind and professed feelings for runner-up Molly Malaney. With more than 17 million viewers watching, Rycroft arrived at the reunion special holding - not wearing - her ring, and Mesnick confirmed the suspicions that the engagement was off. (Read "What Happens When You Get Left at the Altar...
...with this new pool of talent, Fleiss says, the emotions involved have become more complicated - and engaging. "Believe me, I've seen Bachelor couples stay together who really didn't care about each other," he says. "Some of them feel an obligation to the show to try to be a couple, since we spent literally millions of dollars as their matchmakers and sent them all over the world...
...rather than playing to the expectations of producers or viewers, says Fleiss, Mesnick dared to reveal his true emotions and to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that love is not always a programmable enterprise. "More than any other bachelor in history, he was committed to love and to truly following his heart, even though he knew he was going to have to go through hell to do it," Fleiss says. "It's really a romantic notion, that he sacrificed chunks of his popularity to at least try to be with the woman he loved...