THE SHOCKING FINALE OF ‘THE BACHELOR’
March 3, 2009 - 12:44 am
The rose wasn’t so sweet for Bachelor finalist Melissa Rycroft. As Us reported in our March 9 issue, after Jason Mesnick gave the final rose (and the 3.1-carat engagement bling) to the former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, 25, in the finale, he shocked audiences by breaking things off six weeks later in a taped After the Final Rose special to take another stab at his relationship with rejected finalist Molly Malaney, 24.