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Last night’s dramatic twist on ABC’s The Bachelor was hard to watch.  The twist had been leaked weeks ago, so it wasn’t all that shocking, but to see it play out was difficult.

In case you missed it, beloved Bachelor Jason Mesnick proposed to the perky Melissa Rycroft. They looked very happy and it seemed real.

Then, minutes later on the After the Final Rose special (actually it was filmed 6 weeks later) Mesnick dumped Melissa and instead chose Molly, the other girl. Jason says the chemistry with him and Melissa was off and he couldn’t stop thinking about Molly.

Jason insists he and Rycroft were already broken up before the After the Final Rose show, but she seemed stunned by the news—and she was still wearing her engagement ring. And why did he choose to break up with her publicly, with the cameras rolling? That’s the fishy part, and it just doesn’t jibe with Mesnick’s nice-guy image. Smells  like a ratings ploy to me.

All in all, a sad ending for a promising bachelor. I hope Jason’s pay-day was worth it.