With The Bachelor finale still a week away, ABC is looking ahead to the next season of The Bachelorette, and apparently, they've got their eye on Jason's most recent cast-off, Jillian Harris. We have a question: has there ever been a Bachelorette that wasn't jilted by a previous Bachelor? Hang on we're googling it...
The answer is: No. There have been four Bachelorettes: Trista Rehn (dumped by original Bachelor Alex Michel), Meredith Phillips (dumped by Bachelor Bob Guinney), Jen Schefft (former fiancé of Bachelor Andrew Firestone), and Deanna Pappas (dumped by Bachelor Brad Womack).
Accepting ABC's invitation would make Jillian Bachelorette number five to be rejected by a former Bachelor. It seems Jillian's still on the fence on this one...
"I still love him but I don't think I am in love with him anymore...It's like any other breakup. You have to heal yourself. You have to get over it and move on and hope the best for the person."
Molly and Melissa are the final two contestants vying for Mesnick's heart and a sparkling engagement ring, and Harris has a slight preference for one of them: "I became very, very good friends with Melissa," she says. "[We] always talked about, if she did win, how fun it would be for us all to get together and have barbecues and laugh about it. Her and I would be friends and I would be part of their life."
"Part of me wants to stop while I am ahead because I did a great job of presenting myself last time," she says. "But the other part of me really wants to find somebody and maybe my prince is just around the corner. I would have to think hard about it." (TV Guide)
We're on the fence as well. Mostly because, while we enjoy Jillian, we'd like to see a Bachelorette that didn't bring former reality show baggage to the table. But since ABC hasn't actually issued the invitation yet, we suppose we'll have to wait and see. Jillian fans can check in with her tonight on The Bachelor: The Women Tell All -- an episode which, evidently, contains so much drama and high-octane thrills this time around it had to be extended to two hours. Check out the preview below and note host Chris Harrison giving yet another weird promise about the shocking nature of the season finale ("what you're about to witness is potentially so dramatic and so emotionally difficult..." WTF?):
Previously:
The Bachelor Finale Will Leave Us Breathless?