I have been lurking since the Andy season (and by the way, I’m impressed with how well this board is run, and the quality of the sleuthing, and how civil everyone is!) I don’t watch many reality shows, but this one really intrigues me, and I don’t think it would hold my interest without the interesting posts on this spoiler board!
I have a crazy theory, and I know it is very unlikely to be the case, but I am holding on to it, because 1) hope springs eternal, and 2) it is the only thing I can think of that would reconcile all of the seemingly credible but contradictory things I’ve been reading here. I offer it, in case anyone else is comforted by having a crazy, against-all-odds kind of hope.
This gives a lot of credit to everyone. It is the only possibility I can think of that puts everyone in a good light.
Perhaps DeAnna really wanted to avoid “leading people on,” and Jesse wanted a way to break into an acting career, and so maybe this is all a huge, elaborate set-up. I’m entertaining the notion that Jesse and DeAnna have been acting all along, and perhaps very few people are in on it. This would allow her to avoid bringing someone like Jeremy, who was really falling in love with her, to F2.
This would explain (to me) why I don’t see the romantic connection between them, and why Jesse seems so phony to me. It allows him to have his publicity opportunity, and a benign motivation as well. It attributes some compassion to DeAnna, and gives a lot of credit to the producers ~ it would be extremely clever of them to pull something like this off ~ even as far as a “phony” ATFR so that there would be credible, but misleading leaks. Maybe the delays in the taping of the ATFR that day were so that they could get footage of the “real” story without the hired audience, and then bring in the audience and put on the “phony” ending. The SCs that don’t make sense would be because some of them were posed. They filmed two different endings (or at least filmed footage of the alternate ending.”
The engagement party thing could have been canceled because there was too much backlash at the idea of a Jesse F1 once the (planned) leaks were out. They put the “where are they now” in its place for now, to hold its place until next week, when they can change it back to the engagement party, when the majority of fans are happy that is Jason.
OK, I know it’s outlandish and very unlikely. I have amazing powers of delusion.

But it seems to resolve so many inconsistencies, and allows me to relax and not fret about all the time I’ve wasted on this silly show! It would be an M. Knight Shyamalan sort of ending, and nobody is heartless in this scenario (except Fleiss, of course). So I’m holding this fantasy out as a possibility, and when/if I find out that I was way too optimistic, I’ll deal with that then. (Somehow, I think I’ll get over it quickly!)
ETA ~ in my scenario, Jason is the real F1, in case I wasn't clear!