The Bachelor 5

Bachelor 5’s Jesse and Jessica split up. Jesse Palmer and Jessica Bowlin are officially over. The Bachelor 5 couple announced their break-up in the usual way: by issuing a statement to Extra. Jesse said, “Jessica and I shared an incredible romantic journey on the show that began with a friendship that remains strong today. We… continue reading

After the Final Rose marketed with hype; alien baby remarks edited out. We don’t give ABC credit for much, since the network is generally incompetent, but we have to give mad props to their promotion of The Bachelor 5 After the Final Rose special. Defamer guessed that the camera phone pictures sent to reality blurred… continue reading

Bachelor reunion attendee says Tara and Trish fight, photographs Tara leaving. Tomorrow night, the women of The Bachelor 5 After the Final Rose special airs at 9 p.m ET. This was pre-taped, which is good since it probably took Tara 14 hours just to sit her butt down. Our spy-by-proxy Alexa relates her friend’s report… continue reading

Jesse and Jessica are still together, but they’re living on opposite coasts. Jesse Palmer and Jessica Bowlin, the youngest Bachelor couple in the series’ history, are still together, they say. However, Jessica has not yet used Jesse’s one-way plane ticket, telling the New York Daily News that she’s “thinking about moving out. … I’ve put… continue reading

Jesse picks Jessica B., doesn’t propose. Alleged spoilers be damned, Jesse Palmer picked Jessica B. during The Bachelor 5‘s finale. First, he showered her with praise (“You make me a better person. You have given me everything that I asked for. And never once did you expect anything back.”) and then really faked her out,… continue reading

The Bachelor 5 concludes tonight. The The Bachelor 5 concludes tonight as Jesse picks between Tara and Jessica B. Although spy Jenny tells the New York Post that “They’re so similar, it’s ridiculous!” She does point out, however, that “Tara may be more naive than Jessica B., who’s a little more cultured and used to… continue reading

ABC wants firefighter as next Bachelor. Unable to find someone worthy of succeeding Jesse Palmer for the next installment of The Bachelor, which concludes on Wednesday, ABC is looking for “a great single firefighter or first responder,” according to an ad posted at the online community firehouse.com. It says that producers “are at the end… continue reading

Jesse’s football schedule will interfere with his promotion of The Bachelor. Jesse Palmer is fighting for his job on the Giants, but ABC is fighting to have him promote The Bachelor 5. His “practice schedule has thrown a wrench into ABC’s promotional plans because–unlike previous bachelors and bachelorettes who’ve pretty much been at the beck-and-call… continue reading

Trish says she’s a victim of editing. The Bachelor 5 villain Trish says she’s not like the woman we saw on TV calling herself “a money-grubbing, gold-digging whore.” For one, she says she never said that, sort of, telling TV Guide, “The producers took a clip from a conversation we had around the dinner table… continue reading

Jesse calls The Bachelor “a footnote,” sends home Trish, who will be back. His ABC reality show stardom is, “[i]deally, a footnote somewhere along the way,” Jesse Palmer tells Morris News Service. He says, “I’d much rather be remembered for this game that I’ve been playing since I was 7 years old than a TV… continue reading

spoiler? Jesse spotted in finalists’ town. Tonight on The Bachelor 5, Jesse visits the homes and families of the four remaining women. But if you’re clawing your eyes out, desperate to know who he ends up with, a blog may have your answer. Via the brand-new Defamer, Gossiplist reports that Jesse has been seen around… continue reading

Jenny won’t be friends with Jesse if he picks Trish; his Giants future is in the air. Jesse Palmer sent his spy, Jenny, home on last week’s episode of The Bachelor 5. Not that he was taking her advice anyway: Gold-digging demon spawn Trish remains as one of the final six women. Jenny says, “Trish… continue reading

Jesse wanted to be the Bachelor so he could be anonymous; Giants warn him. The Bachelor number five and second-string quarterback for the Giants Jesse Palmer says he decided to participate in the ABC series because he could be anonymous. He tells TV Guide, “When this opportunity came up, I thought it was great because… continue reading

Bachelor 5 reveals Jenny is the spy. Wednesday’s episode of The Bachelor 5 unveiled the face behind the blur, the spy who is secretly feeding Jesse Palmer information. It’s Jenny, but as Zap2it.com says, “ABC handled the cover-up poorly, keeping her name out of press materials both prior to last week’s premiere and after the… continue reading

10.9 million watched Bachelor 5 debut; Giants general manager isn’t happy. The Bachelor 5 kicked off its run with 10.9 million viewers Wednesday, improving on night The Giants’ general manager Ernie Accorsi expressed his displeasure with Palmer’s participation in the series. The New York Post reports that he told Sporting News Radio network, “I would… continue reading

Bachelor 5 debuts tonight; the women were told that Jesse puts football first. The Bachelor 5 debuts tonight, starring Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer as the man who gets to choose from a bounty of women. In the two-hour debut, which starts at 9 p.m. ET, ABC promises new game elements and says that “Jesse makes… continue reading

Bachelor 5 will have series’ first twist. Apparently not confident in quarterback Jesse Palmer’s charisma to keep the fifth season of The Bachelor afloat, producers are borrowing a page from other dating show’s playbook and adding, for the first time, a twist. That twist, according to Extra, is as follows (highlight to read): “One of… continue reading

women pursuing Jesse Palmer “were sexier, hotter and showed a lot more skin.” The Bachelor 5, Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer, will be hunted by 25 women who are younger, “sexier, hotter and showed a lot more skin,” producer Mike Fleiss says. For his part, Palmer tells the New York Daily News that “[t]he fact that… continue reading

New York Giants’ quarterback Jesse Palmer will be the fifth Bachelor. A fifth season of The Bachelor is coming to ABC in April, and it will star someone who has, surprisingly enough, not appeared on any of the previous seasons of the show. Instead, New York Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer, 25, will use the show… continue reading