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In preparation for the January 5 premiere of The Bachelor, Jason Mesnick spoke to reporters today about his experience. Here are some excerpts:

Trying to find love on reality TV a second time...

"I just knew it was real. A real love experience for me. It's something you have to experience to really, truly know and to understand. If that didn't happen to me the first time, there's no way I would do it [a second time]."

Son Ty being part of The Bachelor...

"He plays a very small part on the show. You'll see that, early on, if you see him, it's him and I. Just him and I."

The possibility of a TV wedding...

"I have not even thought about anything like that. My life is off of tv and I cannot even imagine that happening."

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Get ready to cry when you see Jason Mesnick engaged during the final rose ceremony on the new season of The Bachelor, host Chris Harrison says.

"I'm extremely happy for Jason and the woman he chose. It's a fantastic season that has an incredible finish," Harrison told Us Weekly Thursday. "There will be many tears shed as fans take this journey with us this season."

The Seattle single dad - who was dumped by DeAnna Pappas on The Bachelorette - gets engaged on the upcoming season, which debuts January 5.

Jason Mesnick was hesitant to start dating again after his rejected proposal, but said he had high hopes for finding love on the show. Looks like he did.

"I am ready," the handsome devil said. "I am through it and open to giving these girls everything I can to find the one that is right for me. All I am missing, really, is someone to share [my life] with. There's no guarantee... but 25 girls? I mean, it's a real opportunity to find just one."

Take that, DeAnna Pappas.

What's up NOW, Jesse Csincsak?

The new season of The Bachelor doesn’t begin until January 5, but Jason Mesnick has already found love on the pre-taped ABC reality dating series.

“I’m engaged!” Mesnick says. “I found exactly what I was hoping for, what I was looking for. I’m completely in love.”

The 32-year-old single dad, whose marriage proposal to DeAnna was thwarted in July on the season finale of The Bachelorette when she opted for Jesse instead, harbors no hard feelings - and was shocked they later broke up.

“I really did fall in love with DeAnna,” he admits, adding that when he heard of her surprising breakup with Jesse Csincsak in November:

“I was shocked. I thought they were going to make it.”

An outpouring of support from fans and family helped convince the divorced Mesnick to take another chance at finding love in front of the cameras.

With the right priorities, of course: “I don’t want to be by myself,” Jason Mesnick says. “I’m ready for a relationship and family. I was not looking for a mom, but I was looking for a partner for me and a mentor and a friend to Ty.”

Well, now that the mission has been accomplished, we can't wait to see who Jason Mesnick selects on The Bachelor next month.

Ever since hundreds of The Bachelorette fans successfully flooded ABC with demands that Jason Mesnick become the next Bachelor, fans of the show seem to think that they now call the shots when it comes to casting.

Case in point: A Montana grandmother is determined to make Jesse Csincsak - who DeAnna Pappas selected over Mesnick, only to break off their engagement a few months later - the star of The Bachelor, following in the footsteps of Jason.

Lynn Pinkerton feels that she can help Jesse Csincsak move on by putting him back on reality TV to find love. It's an infallible strategy.

“They did this with The Bachelor on there right now, Jason Mesnick from Seattle, to get him on there,” she said. “They had 1,600 signatures for him.”

Believe it not, Pinkerton says that she never even watched The Bachelorette until she spotted Jesse on the most recent season premiere of the show.

“He’s completely different from anybody else I saw on there,” Pinkerton said. “I just kind of started watching it and got hooked on it.”

After finding out that Csincsak and Pappas broke up, she came up with the idea to start an online petition to get him on The Bachelor.

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Good news from The Bachelor or The Bachelorette world is hard to come by.

First, girl next door DeAnna Pappas, after a triumphant turn as The Bachelorette, went Hollywood and dumped a shell-shocked Jesse Csincsak.

Then, crazy Mary Delgado went bat$h!t again and got arrested in Texas.

Fortunately, there is a piece of good news amid this reality TV darkness.

The reconciliation of Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice has been a beacon of hope. The Season Six pairing broke up after the show, but are now back together, setting their sights on becoming the first Bachelor couple to actually wed.

Seriously. None of the 12 have married so far. Only The Bachelorette star Trista Sutter is married to her partner from the show.

We're pulling for you, Charlie and Sarah.

It's a good time to be The Bachelorette.

After years of choosing her from among the contestants who don't find a love connection on The Bachelor, ABC's hit reality TV spin-off is conducting its first-ever search for a female star of the series.

Chris Harrison, the host of both shows, talked to TV Guide about the search, and about the next season of The Bachelor, starring Jason Mesnick.

The happily married Harrison also talked about DeAnna and Jesse, finding love on TV, and whether we'll ever see a gay Bachelor or Bachelorette.

TV Guide.com: What are the qualities you're looking for in the next Bachelorette?

Chris Harrison: It's hard to answer that because really, there's no set picture. We've had rich, we've had poor, we've had famous athletes, actors, we've had it all. So we're not exactly looking for a type. It's just somebody who's willing to take this leap of faith, who's obviously ready to commit and ready for a relationship. Honestly, you really never know what we're looking for and we never know until we find it. There's really not this set picture that we go into casting and say that's it - the blond-haired, blue-eyed six foot model. Because that's not necessarily what we want.

THE MEDIATOR: Chris Harrison with last season's star, DeAnna Pappas.

TV Guide.com: There must be a huge number of women who see this as a big break and want to be famous more than they want to meet the right guy. How do you weed them out?

Chris Harrison: When it's The Bachelor and it's 25 women, you do get your share of that. It's impossible not to. But I always love that aspect of the show because we don't - it's not a game show. There's no big prize at the end. So it's really up to the Bachelor to find those girls and weed them out. That's part of life. There's always girls in relationships for the wrong reason. When we're looking for The Bachelorette, that's kind of our job. Does she just want to be a model, or does she really want to get into movies or whatever. I have found that when we've done the Bachelorette they are even more sincere when they come into this than the guys are.

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Watch out, Jason Mesnick. You never know what kind of maniacs are lurking in The Bachelor field. Of course, you don't have to keep them around ...

Mary Delgado - who was arrested last year for punching out her fiance, The Bachelor star Byron Velvick, after Thanksgiving - was busted Saturday for public intoxication, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct at a bar in Del Rio, Texas.

The place called the cops because Mary Delgado refused to leave the bar, saying it's her "constitutional right" to stay there as long as she wanted.

WHACK JOB: The Bachelor Season Six final rose recipient Mary Delgado is nuts. Well, maybe not literally crazy, but she loves to get drunk and break $h!t.

Mary became "loud and belligerent" while being transported to jail, kicking the radio inside the squad car. Always the way to guarantee a quick release.

Delgado was released after Byron Velvick posted bail for reasons unknown.

There's hope for Jason Mesnick yet.

Usually couples who meet on The Bachelor just break up. Sometimes as soon as a couple of weeks afterward, which is still long after we all saw it coming (way to give it a good run anyway, Shayne Lamas and Matt Grant).

But in a strange turn of events, a couple who met on the show and broke up have now reunited: Bachelor #7 Charlie O’Connell and Sarah Brice!

The pair announced their break-up last fall, but they are back together again and plan to get married. Charlie recently told In Touch Weekly:

“I don’t want to jinx it, but it’s going great. We are taking it slow and not taking each other for granted this time. The future looks good!”

Sarah Brice is also psyched, saying “There must be something special between us, because we keep coming back to one another. I’m very happy.”

Only one (Trista Sutter) of 16 Bachelorette or Bachelor stars has wed his or her chosen partner. Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice are looking to make it 2-16.

1-16.

With DeAnna Pappas' dumping of Jesse Csincsak, that's the combined record of The Bachelor (0-12) and The Bachelorette (1-4) in producing a marriage.

The one, of course, is Trista Sutter.

The only couple to survive the apparent curse (or the fact that courtship on TV is inherently flawed, as there are many Shayne Lamas fame-whore types out there), Trista and Ryan Sutter remain rock solid. It's refreshing.

With baby #2 on the way, Trista and Ryan Sutter (with son Max) pose for a family photo as part of the Sketchers "Nothing Compares to Family" Campaign ...

THE BACHELORETTE NO MORE: After rising for fame as a star on both ABC series, Trista Sutter, 37, is content with her two new titles: Wife and Mom!

Remember when Jason Mesnick was rejected by DeAnna Pappas on the season finale of The Bachelorette in favor of Jesse Csincsak. That was brutal.

Well, Mesnick has gotten the last laugh - and not just because of DeAnna Pappas' subsequent breakup with Csincsak just a few months after the show.

The Bachelor will return to ABC on January 5 and in its new season, the single dad America fell in love with will be the one doing the choosing.

A two-hour episode will kick off the season - amazingly, the 13th. No star of The Bachelor has married his chosen fiancee from the series. Just saying.

Will 13 be lucky for Jason Mesnick? One can only hope.

The show will return to its usual 90-minute episode format, starting at 9:30 p.m. on Mondays, after the premiere date. We'll be watching.