Bachelor 13 - Media **Spoilers**

[pajamasam]

MF did the conference call? Figures.

Wow, so if she knew a week before he was breaking it off (which would be the 11th) then how was Jason so happy and in love on JK which was a week prior to that (and after the holidays were he changed his mind).

I dont take very seriously what the Bachelor says about being in love, before or during the airing of the show. They have to say they are ecstatic or in love or whatever. Travis and Brad did it. They all have to do that to some degree, whether or not it's true.

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[BritLit]

Originally Posted by casualfan

By the way, MF did the conference call instead of Jason and Molly. They cancelled last minute for "scheduling conflicts"

I'm not surprised. Can you imagine how hard it is to get dressed in that tent?

[norealityhere]

Originally Posted by paridy

Why would they even want Molly as the Bachelorette. Ugh. And secondly Wth is telegenic. Never heard of it. Does it mean cheater.

Telegenic, in Hollywood speak, is just another way of saying someone is camera ready, photographs well, etc.
I sure like your synonym a whole lot better, though. It's definitely more apt in Molly's case.

[DejvuMoment]

Originally Posted by valley54

Fleiss needs to release the complete contract for this season, before I believe anything he says. I do not for one minute believe Jason did what he did because he wanted to hurt Melissa.

Of course not. Saint Jason would never do such a thing, he is merely an innocent bystander in all of this.

[partypunch]

There's more out from the conference call according to Fleiss Jason never approached him about not breaking up with Melissa on camera and Mel knew to a certain extent what was about to go down..except the part about it being about Molly which totally contradicts what the emails said.

[maxnsam]

Originally Posted by Frak

I don't know when she takes it off, because she immediately clasps her hands together and I don't see it again 'til she hands it back.

Well I guess that tells us how much editing was done and how much we didn't see!

And you are right, Mel does look happy in that cap!

[Bet2Win]

Originally Posted by casualfan

By the way, MF did the conference call instead of Jason and Molly. They cancelled last minute for "scheduling conflicts"

Scheduling conflicts?

Conflicts ... yes. Jason blames TPTB, Fleiss blames Jason. Jason isn't towing the party line, so Fleiss is stepping in.

[maxnsam]

Originally Posted by casualfan

By the way, MF did the conference call instead of Jason and Molly. They cancelled last minute for "scheduling conflicts"

Yes and Fleiss threw Jason under the bus! Surprise, surprise!

[norealityhere]

Ok, if we're to believe the spin out there that this show wasn't scripted, then how do they explain the following. Molly kept saying after she was rejected as the FRC that you made a mistake, chose the wrong person, etc. IMO, that was heavily scripted to leave the door open that Jason was, indeed, going to make a complete turnaround. They knew that because that's how it was scripted. Molly's comments were just too pat at the FRC.

[partypunch]

Good lord none of these people can get their story straight.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: There are rumors that the outcome was manipulated and that you guys knew all along how it was going to turn out. What do you have to say about those accusations?
MIKE FLEISS: It's completely untrue! Don't you think if we were into that and playing those kind of games that somebody who it happened to would be saying that and not some "unnamed source?" We’ve had 500 people on the show, find one that says we told them who to pick -- you won’t because we’ve never done that. The rumor stuff is just appalling because we all work so hard on this show. We really make every attempt possible to keep this pure and let people make their own decisions. You can’t have people staging this, they’re not good enough actors. If they were all actors, that would be the best acting on any network. [Laughs] If he was acting, then Jason is the nation’s finest actor, better than Javier Bardem, better than Brad Pitt, and Molly is the new Meryl Streep!

Another question irking many fans: Why did he have to break it off with Melissa on camera?
It's a simple answer: It's a TV show. He would have done it on the radio if this were a radio show.

But you could argue that in the past not all Bachelors have felt compelled to break up on camera.
In the past it didn’t involve our other girl. I understand that people are a little ticked off that we put it [the breakup] on TV, but I think a lot more people would have been ticked off if we didn’t put it on TV. They watch the show, they invested in this whole season, they care about the characters, they’re looking forward to the finale, and then we don’t show them the defining moment of the season? I think that would piss some people off.


After the jump: "Once you’ve made the commitment to be on one of these shows you have to assume a certain level of emotional risk."


Did he have a choice in the matter?
There was never a discussion like, "Oh, this is going to have to be part of the show."

So he could have chosen to break up with Melissa off-camera and then talk about it after the fact on the After The Final Rose special?
[Melissa] had certainly been given a heads-up. I don’t think she realized it was going to go as far as it went with her giving back the ring and him taking it back. But she knew there was trouble in paradise. Don’t you think if your husband or boyfriend is about to break up with you and you spend every day with him for six weeks and you spend time talking on the phone with him every night that you’d have a little bit of a clue? Melissa is a wonderful girl and we were really happy she was the one chosen, but there’s no way we could make a show like this and not include the most important moment of the season.

Still, so many people think that because it was such a personal moment, she must be humiliated.
It’s a reality TV show about people falling in love. If you’re going to go on a reality dating show I think it’s a safe assumption that some of this is going to be possible. These people that are saying, “God, I would never want to go through something like that.” I agree. I could never do it, but once you’ve made the commitment to be on one of these shows you have to assume a certain level of emotional risk.

People just think Jason made the wrong decision in doing that so publicly.
He did everything else publicly, so what’s the difference?

Everyone had thought he'd chosen Melissa, that it was set in stone, and then it was just a surprise that he'd changed his mind in that amount of time.
Believe me, that heartache that Molly experienced the first time was probably not that much different than the heartache that Melissa experienced in the ATFR. He was dumping the both of them on camera.

It was a little surprising that Molly wasn’t more hesitant to take him back.
She’s in love with him. If you’re in love with somebody, you’ll put up with that. You put up with s--- that you wouldn’t put up with from anyone else in the world because you do love them and you want them back. You want to spend your life with them because you’re dreaming of them every night, that’s the place where Molly is.

Are you worried now that some fans are going to walk away from the show because their disappointed or angry by Jason's decision?If that were true, we wouldn’t have held our numbers in that second half hour during Monday night's ATFR. If there was going to be this mass exodus from the show, it would have [already] happened. If we make a great show, people will watch a great show and that’s the bottom line.

Why do you think it is that Jason's season did see such a ratings spike for the show?
I think by keeping the ongoing soap opera alive it allows viewers to come back and reinvest more easily. By going from Brad’s season to Deanna's season to Jason’s is what’s allowed the audience to stick around. You try to do new things to keep the show fresh, but by keeping the thread of the characters through, the audience is watching a continuing soap opera and it’s easier for them to reinvest. Had we tried to launch Jason cold, not from The Bachelorette, and say, “He’s our new Bachelor!”, I don’t think we would have even gotten him approved, necessarily, by the network. He’s not a doctor, he’s not a captain in the Navy, he’s not Mr. Hunkalicious of the Century. I mean he’s a good looking guy, but we had better looking physical specimens for that role. But the audience came to like him and care about him so much from the previous season that watching him as the new Bachelor was really easy.