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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.

As newly selected star of The Bachelor Jason Mesnick prepares to choose a fiancee among 25 women all vying for his love, former star Jesse Palmer offerd him some words of wisdom to share.

“Just be himself and enjoy the experience,” Palmer told People at the U.S. Open. “The biggest thing is to be open minded and enjoy it as best he can and not put too much pressure on himself.”

Though he may not have found the love of his life with his final rose recipient, Jessica Bowlin in 2004 (and no Bachelor star has, actually, done so before or since) Palmer has no regrets.

“I’m really excited and happy that I did it,” Palmer said. “It was a once in a lifetime opportunity, so looking back I have great memories and met a lot of good people on The Bachelor."

Jason Mesnick, the new star of The Bachelor, admits he hasn't been on a date since DeAnna Pappas spurned him on The Bachelorette.

"I haven't dated at all since DeAnna," he says. "I wanted to give myself time to heal so that when I got out there again I'd be ready to give whoever I am with the respect and attention she deserves."

But Mesnick, the 32-year-old single dad from Seattle, is looking forward to the opportunity to find love on the 13th season of The Bachelor:

"I am ready. I am ready 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," he said.

"There's no guarantee but 25 girls? It's a real opportunity to find just one."

Jason Mesnick says he was approached to do The Bachelor at the "After the Final Rose Special" by the show's producers.

"All I could think was, 'Oh man, I am so excited' - mostly because really I am just the most regular guy you could ever come across and for this to be happening to me is unbelievable," he said.

"It just leaves me completely speechless."

The Bachelorette star Deanna Pappas – with her new fiance Jesse Csincsak by her side – proclaimed that her second choice, Jason Mesnick, will make the "perfect catch" when he gets a second shot at reality TV love.

Pappas and Csincsak told the Yo on E! radio show that the new star of The Bachelor would make a wonderful husband.

As for the new crew of ladies who will vie for his attention, DeAnna Pappas stated: "He needs... a woman who is down to earth and doesn't care about all the business going around, because Jason's normal."

Jason Mesnick lost out on DeAnna Pappas on the finale of The Bachelorette. But the tables will soon be turned as he will star on The Bachelor!

Also, since Jason Mesnick has a little boy, three-year-old Ty, Pappas says the new bachelorettes better love kids.

"He's the most important thing in Jason's life," she says.

The 13th season of the The Bachelor begins in January 2009.

Take that, Michael Phelps.

Proving that when life gives you lemons, one can make reality TV lemonade, rejected Bachelorette finalist Jason Mesnick has signed on to be the new Bachelor when the ABC series returns in January 2009.

The hunky single dad from Seattle had been all primed to propose to DeAnna Pappas, ring and everything, when she stopped him from getting down on one knee, leaving him — and millions of viewers — crushed.

Instead, she opted for 26-year-old snowboarder Jesse Csincsak.

Now Jason Mesnick gets another shot at making the perfect match.

The hunt is on for 25 women willing to bare their hearts, souls and claws.

Per ABC, the 32-year-old divorcé is now "looking for a woman who has a real curiosity about the world, who loves life and can find passion in life’s smallest moments." All on a reality TV show, of course.

Others rumored to be in consideration to star on The Bachelor included fellow DeAnna Pappas rejects Graham Bunn and Jeremy Anderson.

Jason Mesnick isn't sleepless in Kirkland, Washington.

But the 32-year-old father three-year old Ty has a new email account for fans wishing to contact him. Sounds eerily like Sleepless in Seattle to us.

“I’ve gotten thousands of comments from fans,” Mesnick said. “The generosity and the kindness is unbelievable. Every one is so sweet and nice. All the comments are pure love.”

This proposal didn't end so well for Jason Mesnick.

In the finale of this season's The Bacheloette, DeAnna Pappas told Jason her “heart is somewhere else.” That place, of course, was with winner Jesse Csincsak.

Since then, Mesnick’s supporters have fillde his MySpace page with comments and bombarded ABC with requests to get in touch with him. Producers of the show finally set up a separate e-mail account just for him.

Fans can now contact Jason directly at fanofjason@gmail.com.

“This really was set up as a way to accommodate his fans who wanted to reach out to him, not as a way of finding a match for him,” an ABC rep said, adding that Mesnick checks the address once a day and tries to respond to every message.

Move over, Jeremy Anderson and J.T. Torregiani.

Recently heart-broken Jason Mesnick is also being considered for the new season of The Bachelor.

"We would be bona fide idiots not to consider him for the show," series host Chris Harrison said about the possibility of Mesnick having his pick of 25 desperate women. "He's on my short list."

Harrison added that, if Jason is chosen, son "Ty would have to take center stage," while hinting this could mean filming in Jason's hometown of Seattle. Heck, Harrison and and his wife even offered to baby-sit: "We have two kids, Ty would fit right in."

What do you think of Jason Mesnick being the next Bachelor?

Jason Mesnick can attest that DeAnna Pappas altered what she was looking for in a guy during her quest for love on The Bachelorette.

"I could say that the one thing that I thought throughout the whole process was if she was ready for what she said she was ready from Day 1, she would have picked me," Mesnick said in an interview this week.

"But if [DeAnna Pappas] wasn't or things changed throughout the process and she wasn't sure if she was ready for the family, then she'd go with [Jesse Csincsak]. We saw what she did."

What Pappas did was pick Csincsak over the 31-year-old account executive and single father from Kirkland, Wash., on the season finale.

"I know more than anybody that people change and you can learn more about yourself through an experience," Mesnick said.

"Do I think she led me on? I don't know. Maybe a little bit. But I really don't fault her for it at all anymore."

Jason Mesnick said he was able to achieve "final closure" on the situation when he saw DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak "happy together" at the filming of the season's The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose special.

"The connection they had and what I saw on the show when I was there filming was absolutely love and a look that she gave him that she couldn't live without him, and she never gave that to me," he said.

"I need to have that in my life; I think we all deserve to have that in our life. It's not a connection or look that she ever gave me."

Mesnick explained that the look he was referring to that DeAnna Pappas gave Csincsak - as well as, in his opinion, fellow ousted suitor Graham Bunn - was something he didn't notice until watching the finale episode.

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On the season finale of The Bachelorette, DeAnna Pappas shocked America by choosing Jesse Csincsak over Jason Mesnick.

Heartbroken and shell-shocked, Jason headed home alone in his limo as DeAnna finally told Jesse how much she loved him.

Jesse Csincsak got down on one knee and asked DeAnna if she would spend forever with him and she happily accepted.

DeAnna Pappas chooses Jesse Csincsak as the winner of the fourth season of The Bachelorette, stunning America and Jason Mesnick.

Afterwards, Jason had the chance to confront DeAnna and the happy couple went public for the first time since The Bachelorette ended.

Did the sparks fly between the rejected star and the winner? Get all the highlights right here on our episode guide to The Bachelorette ...