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Bachelor Pad
''Bachelor Pad'' is an elimination-style two-hour American reality television game show that debuted on August 9, 2010 on ABC. The show features contestants from '' The Bachelor'' and ''The Bachelorette'', who compete for a final cash prize of $250,000. Former game show host and news anchor Chris Harrison reprises his role from ''The Bachelor'', while Melissa Rycroft served as special guest co-host for the first season. In March 2013, it was announced that the program would not return for a fourth season. However, one year later after the show cancelled, it was replaced by '' Bachelor in Paradise''. Blake Julian and Holly Durst of season 2 were married on June 2, 2012. They are the only Bachelor Pad couple to get married. About the show The show stars eleven women and eight men eliminated from various seasons of '' The Bachelor'' and ''The Bachelorette'' who compete for a $250,000 prize. The women on the first season were mostly from ''The Bachelor'' season 14. The men on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Fleiss
Mike L. Fleiss (born April 14, 1964) is an American television producer and writer. Early life Fleiss was raised in Fullerton, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. Career He was the creator, producer, and writer of '' The Bachelor'', The WB's '' Superstar USA'', '' The Bachelorette'', '' The Will'', and '' High School Reunion''. His first reality TV romance show was '' Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?'' He was also the producer of the 2003 remake '' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' and its 2006 prequel '' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning'' and the films '' Hostel'' (2005), '' Hostel: Part II'' (2007), and '' Hostel: Part III'' (2011). In 2008, his Next Entertainment production company signed a deal with Warner. Personal life His 24-year marriage to his high school sweetheart, Alexandra Vorbeck, ended in 2012. He married former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler, in April 2014. The couple's son, Benjamin, was born in May 2015. In November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing With The Stars
''Strictly Come Dancing (widely known as Dancing with the Stars)'' is an international television franchise based on the format of the British TV series '' Strictly Come Dancing,'' itself a successor to the show ''Come Dancing'' (1950–1998). It is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. , the format has been licensed to 60 territories. Versions have also been produced in dozens of countries across the world. As a result, the series became the world's most popular television programme among all genres in 2006 and 2007, according to the magazine ''Television Business International'', reaching the Top 10 in 17 countries. The show pairs a number of well known celebrities with professional ballroom dancers, who each week compete by performing one or more choreographed routines that follow the prearranged theme for that particular week. The dancers are then scored by a panel of judges. Viewers are given a certain amount of time to place votes for their favori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Fedotowsky
Alexandra Elaine Fedotowsky-Manno (née Fedotowsky; born September 16, 1984) is an American television personality best known as a cast member on the ABC reality shows '' The Bachelor'' and ''Bachelorette'' (2010). Early life and education Fedotowsky was born in Massachusetts. She grew up in North Adams and Williamstown and is a graduate of Mount Greylock Regional High School. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst for two years prior to transferring to Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2006. Career Fedotowsky's work in television began when she was selected as a cast member on ABC's reality show '' The Bachelor'' series which first aired on January 4, 2010. The show placed her with twenty four other women all contending for the affection of pilot Jake Pavelka. She left the show when she was confronted with an ultimatum from her employer, Facebook, regarding the choice to return to work or to quit. Fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bachelorette (season 6)
The sixth season of ''The Bachelorette'', an ABC reality television series, premiered on May 24, 2010. This season featured 25-year-old Ali Fedotowsky, an advertising account manager from Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fedotowsky finished in fourth place on season 14 of '' The Bachelor'' featuring Jake Pavelka, after she eliminated herself due to a work-related ultimatum. The season concluded on August 2, 2010, with Fedotowsky accepting a proposal from 26-year-old insurance agent Roberto Martinez. Martinez is the first male Latino winner in ''The Bachelorette''. The couple ended their relationship on November 21, 2011. Contestants Future appearances ''The Bachelor'' Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez appeared in episode 2 of the fifteenth season of '' The Bachelor'', where they gave an advice for the contestants of that season. ''Bachelor Pad'' Craig McKinnon, Jesse Beck, and Jonathan Novack returned for the first season of ''Bachelor Pad''. McKinnon was eliminated in week 2 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peculiar, Missouri
Peculiar is a city in Cass County, Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 5,621 at the 2020 census. The town motto is "Where the 'odds' are with you." History Early settlers of the town came to Western Missouri by riverboat from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Peculiar also had families coming from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. On July 29, 1868, the county surveyor, Robert Cass, platted Peculiar and was filed as "The Town of Peculiar". There are at least two versions of the story on how Peculiar received its name. The first involves the community's first postmaster, Edgar Thomson. His first choice for a town name, "Excelsior," was rejected because it already existed in Atchison County, Missouri. Several other choices were also rejected. The story goes that the annoyed Thomson wrote to the Postmaster General himself to complain saying, among other things, "We don't care what name you give us so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Pavelka
Jacob Lynn "Jake" Pavelka (born January 27, 1978) is an American television personality, pilot, actor, and model who appeared on six reality TV programs, most notably ''The Bachelor (US TV series), The Bachelor''. Early life and career Pavelka was born in Dallas, Texas to Sallie Lanell (''née'' Mack), a nurse, and James Lynn Pavelka. He is the middle of three sons. His brothers, Jason and Matthew, are both married. He has two nephews. Pavelka grew up in Denton, Texas, and he started taking flying lessons when he was twelve. He eventually worked as a pilot for Atlantic Southeast Airlines, and under the name of Jake Landrum, acted in several television commercials and programs produced in the Dallas area. Pavelka is a cousin of fitness model, television presenter, actor and personal trainer Jessie Pavelka. Pavelka participates in triathlons and has been active in fitness throughout his life. Reality television Pavelka first appeared as a contestant in 2009, in the fifth season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington Beach, California
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County, California, United States. The city was originally called Pacific City, but it was changed in 1903 to be named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. The population was 198,711 as of the 2020 United States census, making it the fourth most populous city in Orange County, the most populous beach city in Orange County, and the seventh most populous city in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located southeast of Downtown Los Angeles, it is bordered by Bolsa Chica Basin State Marine Conservation Area on the west, the Pacific Ocean on the southwest, by Seal Beach on the northwest, by Westminster, California, Westminster on the north, by Fountain Valley, California, Fountain Valley on the northeast, by Costa Mesa on the east, and by Newport Beach on the southeast. Huntington Beach has a long stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, conditions considered ideal for surfing, and a strong beach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenley Molzahn
Tenley Nora Molzahn Leopold ( Molzahn; born May 19, 1984) is an American dancer and television personality known for her appearances as a cast member on three ABC reality shows, '' The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love'' (2010), ''Bachelor Pad'' (2010), and '' Bachelor in Paradise'' (2015). Dancing In 2002, Molzahn moved to Los Angeles to audition for Walt Disney Productions. For the next six years, Molzahn danced and performed in Disney in Anaheim and Japan, taking the lead role of Ariel in Tokyo Disney’s ‘Under the Sea’ tour for nine months. Television Molzahn's work in television began when she was selected as a cast member on ABC's reality show '' The Bachelor'' series which first aired on January 4, 2010. The show placed her with twenty-four other women all contending for the affection of pilot Jake Pavelka. She was the last one eliminated by Pavelka. Afterwards, Molzahn joined the cast of ''Bachelor Pad'', the ABC dating-based competition reality TV show in which for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encinitas, California
Encinitas ( Spanish for "Small Oaks") is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California, United States. Located in Southern California, it is approximately north of San Diego, between Solana Beach and Carlsbad, and about south of Los Angeles. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a population of 62,007, up from 59,518 at the 2010 census. History The first people to settle in Encinitas were the Kumeyaay. Gaspar de Portolá, governor of Baja California, visited the area in 1769 during the Portolá expedition and met residents from the nearby Kumeyaay village of Jeyal (or Heyal), near the San Elijo Lagoon. Portolá named the valley Los Encinos for the oak forest along El Camino Real, where there was also a village that was likely known as ''Hakutl'' in New Encinitas. After Mexican Independence, land was granted to Andrés Ybarra in 1842 to build Rancho Las Encinitas in what is now Olivenhain and New Encinitas, from which Encinita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jillian Harris
Jillian Harris (born December 30, 1979) is a Canadian television personality. She is best known for appearing on the television series ''The Bachelor (U.S. TV series), The Bachelor'', ''The Bachelorette (American TV series), The Bachelorette,'' and ''Love It or List It Vancouver''. She has also appeared on ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'', ''Canada's Handyman Challenge'', and ''The Bachelorette Canada''. Early life Harris was born in Peace River, Alberta, Peace River, Alberta, Canada. Career Harris began her interior design career while working at Caban, an interior goods store, which inspired her to begin giving design consultations. She was then hired by Scott Morison, the co-founder of the Canadian restaurant chain Cactus Club Cafe, to design his restaurants. She never formalized her interior credentials, admitting this online to her followers on Instagram in 2024. She was then re-hired by Morison as the designer for Browns Socialhouse, his new chain of restaurants. Real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metropolitan area had 814,049 residents and is the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area. Dayton is located within Ohio's Miami Valley region, north of Cincinnati and west-southwest of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus. Dayton was founded in 1796 along the Great Miami River and named after Jonathan Dayton, a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who owned a significant amount of land in the area. It grew in the 19th century as a canal town and was home to many patents and inventors, most notably the Wright brothers, who developed the first successful motor-operated airplane. It later developed an industrialized economy and was home to the Dayton Project, a branch of the larger Manhattan Project, to develop polonium triggers used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Mesnick
Jason Scott Mesnick is an American television personality, account executive, and realtor. He was the runner-up on season 4 of ''The Bachelorette'' and was featured on season 13 of '' The Bachelor''. Education Mesnick graduated from Lake Washington High School in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, Washington, and the University of Washington. ''The Bachelorette''/''The Bachelor'' Mesnick competed on the fourth season of ''The Bachelorette'', which premiered May 19, 2008, as one of the suitors of Deanna Pappas, even proposing in the final rose ceremony before Pappas stopped him. Mesnick was then chosen to be featured on the 13th season of ''The Bachelor'', which premiered in January 2009. On ''The Bachelor'', Mesnick proposed and became engaged to Melissa Rycroft. On the season's finale, Mesnick revealed that he changed his mind. When Rycroft was brought out, he broke up with her, and she returned the engagement ring. Molly Malaney, the runner-up, was then brought out. Mesnick a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
