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...tears and Mesnick turned to Malaney, the show's fans took to the Internet in a rage, decrying Mesnick as a "jackass," "playboy" and "bastard." It was clear that this particular chapter of reality TV struck some as a little too real. Yet creator and executive producer Mike Fleiss says the fireworks of March 2 reflected the best, not the worst, of the genre. "I'm not really surprised by this; it's just a sign that the show is working," he tells TIME. "That's really your job, to create television that the whole country will sit down...
...Some would say the difference is that Malaney knew there was a chance she could get kicked off the show during the competition, while Rycroft's departure occurred long after she had been picked as the winner - and purportedly gotten engaged. But Fleiss insists that Mesnick's change of heart hardly came as a shock to the bride-to-be. In the weeks leading up to the reunion special, Fleiss says, he started to hear word from other producers on the show that Rycroft and Mesnick were not getting along. Two weeks before the reunion, Fleiss says, he heard that...
...which set the stage for the most unpredictable "After the Final Rose" event in the show's history. Opting to film the show without a live audience for secrecy reasons, and unsure of how Malaney would respond to Mesnick's renewed affections, Fleiss says there was plenty of uncertainty when cameras started rolling - just not when it came to Rycroft. "She knew they were essentially finished before walking out on that stage," he says. "But still, doing it for real and making it official and handing back the ring brought out real emotions...
...Women make more money these days, they're calling the shots, they're more powerful. And let's face it, it's hard to meet someone." HEIDI FLEISS, former "Hollywood Madam" on why she struck a deal to open a Nevada brothel that will cater exclusively to female clients
...Heidi Fleiss She was a new kind of madam, neither a rouged and overweight 60-year-old nor even a pedigreed East Coast socialite. Young, skinny and hip, Fleiss was charged with running a ring of high-priced L.A. prostitutes. She threatened to name names from her oversize appointment book and thereby threw Hollywood moguls (and presumably various Mrs. Moguls) into late-summer turmoil...