Trista Rehn kicked bachelor Charlie Maher to the curb, now she’s falling in the snow for Ryan Sutter. Yes, I watch Extra sometimes, and that’s where I saw it. Click on the link if you want to see the video, which you can get to by clicking on “video” under “extra bytes”. I say more power to them because Ryan was the first fella on really any of the shows that I liked. At least he’s happy, although I still don’t like phony Trista!

Alex Michel, who allegedly bedded and then dumped Trista in the original, is a louse. No wonder pudgy Amanda Marsh severed ties with him after the show, when she discovered he was starved for fame. Ironically, so is Trista so why didn’t they just stay together? Leads me to think the whole damn thing was a setup. At least in Joe Millionaire we knew Evan Marriott was lying. Fans will be happy to know that Joe Millionaire 2 is in the works.

I’ve already said Aaron Buerge is a jarhead, but I will add loser after watching him act nonchalantly about tearing Helene Eksterowicz’s heart out and ultimately cutting it off with her at a New Jersey coffee house that has enough publicity without me calling it by name. Nice touch, but according to this she is doing okay.

So to combat Fox’s demolition of their show in the ratings, they have named Andrew Firestone as their third Bachelor. Then they say “he’s a real millionaire” in their promos. Who gives a rat’s behind? We all watched Joe Millionaire to watch women dig for gold, not knowing there was no gold in the mine. Then we loved it when Cinderella Zora Andrich got to split a million bucks with actor, err phony millionaire Evan Marriott in the twist ending. So mister silver spoon in his ear Andrew Firestone gets to go on television and have his family choose a daughter-in-law, right? I mean that is what he said, and that sounds an awful lot like Married by America, where family members narrow the field and ultimately America makes a 50/50 choice. Is ABC so starved for ratings that they have to rip off Fox? Apparently so.

Speaking of rip offs, I’ll digress at the end and say that semi-Celebrity Survivor, I mean “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!” (I like norcaldoll’s name for it which is “Wanna waste an hour?”) while an obvious rip off of CBS turned out to be decent. The format sucked, and the host was an idiot, but norcaldoll actually likes Melissa Rivers now and I think Cris Judd is a decent person. If the show did nothing else, it was worth watching for that. More on that after Wednesday’s finale.

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