Oh, we saw it coming a million miles away. Commercial pilot Jake Pavelka has been crowned the latest Bachelor, as ABC announced on Tuesday night's Dancing With the Stars. 
 
The 31-year-old Texan will pick and choose from dozens of hopeful ladies in The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love (gag!), which is set to air in January 2010.
 
You probably remember Jake. It's hard to forget his c@#k-block move against Wes, the obnoxious country singer. After Jake had been eliminated, he showed up at Jillian's door to warn her of Wes’s devious ways—namely, the fact that he came on the … Read More

There are 180 days left in 2009, and as such the Fourth of July is the perfect day to celebrate the most shocking Celebrity Love reports of the year to date (or in some cases, not to date). Click on the links to get the full story on these firecracker romantic twists, many of which have occurred in the last couple weeks. They're not duds, no, no. In fact, they set the celeb world ablaze.

Michelle Obama Baby Buzz Everyone's favorite First Lady Obama wowed us with her Inauguration Day style in January...and then almost gave us a … Read More

Celebrity stories too juicy to miss. Here's what else went down today in celeb-love-land.

Megan Fox and Zac Efron's Dinner Date [OK! Magazine]

Michael Jackson "intentionally" omitted Debbie Rowe from will. [Us Magazine]

"Michael Jackson left all his assets to the Michael Jackson Family Trust and cut out former wife Debbie Rowe, according to his 7-year-old will filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court. His mother, Katherine Jackson, 79, is named as a beneficiary."

Diana Ross was the second caregiver listed for Michael Jackson's children, not Debbie Rowe.  [ABC News]

Are The Bachelor's Molly and Jason together? [Read More

Melissa Rycroft, who was so memorably proposed to and then dumped on national television by Bachelor Jason Mesnick and then twirled her infamy into a stint on Dancing With the Stars, is engaged, Us Weekly reports. She reunited with insurance agent Tye Strickland in March after her stint on The Bachelor—they'd been on and off for two years.

"Sometimes the stars align and the clouds part and everything works out the way it should," Melissa gushed on Good Morning America today, where she has a new running gig. Which, wow. Honey, he didn't cure cancer. He put a … Read More

Jillian Harris, the star of this season's The Bachelorette, has not one but 30 eligible bachelors at her fingertips. In the past, Bachelorettes have had their pick of only 25 but blame it on a bad economy, there's more available men to go around!

We wish Jillian all the luck in the world as she attempts to turn reality television into romance. Where she fails, we're sure to find our next bachelor for season 15 of ABC's other hit, The Bachelor. Or perhaps there's the next Top Chef contestant in the mix. Stranger things have … Read More

This just in: former Bachelor Andrew Firestone and his wife, Ivana, have welcomed their first child! Son Adam Brooks was born Saturday morning at 6:48 a.m. and weighed in at 8 lbs. This is the first child for the couple, who wed this past July in California. Firestone said at the time of the wedding, "Standing at the front of the church and watching Ivana walk down the aisle, I just kept thinking I must be the luckiest man alive to spend the rest of my life with this woman." Firestone had previously engaged to Jen Schefft but … Read More

Breakups stink. And when you're in the midst of one, it often feels as though no one in the world could possibly understand your anguish. But rest assured, gentle readers: almost everyone can. Indeed, anyone who's ever been in love has experienced heartache, including Marilyn Monroe. And Halle Berry. And the commander-in-chief of Alaska. So lick those wounds, broken-hearted beauties, and learn a few lessons from some of the rich and famous who've been through the ringer and managed to survive.Lesson 1: If you want to make your ex embarrassed and un-datableYou should: Publicly tarnish his nameLearn from: The … Read More

You know what's a hard-core drag? Being dumped on national TV*. You know what's even more of a drag? Being dumped on a contrived, network dating show in favor of someone you understood to be out of the picture.

But after being left on the trash heap of broken hearts that is post-rose ceremony The Bachelor, Melissa Rycroft has rebounded. She's not thinking about boob Jason Mesnick and she sure as hey-hey isn't thinking about Molly Malaney. (By the way, isn't it painfully obvious that this was contrived?). She's moved on, she got her hair did, she … Read More

It was only a week ago that Melissa Rycroft, the 25-year-old Dallas native who won the heart and hand of Bachelor Jason Mesnick, saw her dignity and dreams of matrimony battered on national television.Jason, having experienced a major change of heart between the season finale of the Bachelor and the After The Rose special (which were filmed a few weeks apart, but aired back to back), confessed that he couldn't stop thinking of Molly Malaney, the second choice girl he jilted in favor of Melissa. The "chemistry is completely different" outside the mansion he told host Chris Harrison. … Read More

For months I watched women swoon over The Bachelor, Jason Mesnick, a divorced single father, and I just couldn’t understand why. The whole thing was cute, sure, but didn’t these ladies get that people with kids have different priorities than those of us who have yet to procreate? As a single twentysomething, I am the center of my world, and I like it that way. While I certainly want kids, I don’t want them right now. And I’ve always imagined that when the time comes, my partner and I will experience all of the firsts of parenthood … Read More