The Bachelor

Jake Pavelka met the families of the four remaining women on The Bachelor last night during visits to their respective hometowns. All his dates went fairly well, by and large.

Until the biggest bombshell in BACHELOR HISTORY was dropped.

If you somehow want the rundown, here's our recap of Week Six.

That might be helpful if you were one of the 12 people watching the Heroes finale. Otherwise, you already know what went down with Jake and his aspiring trophy wives.

After the jump, we've got the highlights in our official review ...

Which three of these lovely ladies ended up with roses last night?

Gia's date took place in Manhattan. It went pretty well, although she clearly puts a wall up and doesn't seem compatible with Jake at all. Her mom insists he really loves her.

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With each passing day, Vienna Girardi becomes less and less popular with the other girls pursuing Jake Pavelka on The Bachelor and with the show's fan base.

Rumors are flying that she's a cheater who drained her Marine ex's bank account to buy some fake boobs. Tenley, Gia and Ali in particular just can't stand her.

Vienna Girardi does seem to realize she rubs people the wrong way, and Chris Harrison, The Bachelor host, says that sort of thing may come back to bite her.

On the flip side, though, Chris hints that relentless hating on Vienna may hurt the other girls' chances as well. Ali Fedotowsky is the prime offender thus far.

Might Jake Pavelka reject them both?

Which of these four women will win the heart of Jake Pavelka?

"Vienna and Ali are two of Jake's favorites," Harrison said. "The funny thing is, those two are beating each other up so bad, Tenley is just skating through."

That would be Tenley Molzahn, who is in Jake's top four along with Ali, Vienna and Gia Allemand. Tenley may not be a Vienna fan, but she keeps it to herself.

Ali, Harrison adds, "has to forget Vienna and worry about herself. Enough with the bickering, cattiness. The quicker she realizes that, the better she will be."

A little foreshadowing, perhaps?

The Bachelor star Jake Pavelka narrowed his field of women from five to four last night, and a lot of the girls acted catty toward Vienna. Basically, same as the week before.

If you missed it and want the full rundown, here's our recap of Week Five.

But you didn't miss much. You might have been better off watching last night's Heroes ... okay, not really, that was worse, but you get the idea. Rough TV night from 9-10.

After the jump, we've got the highlights (term used loosely) with our take:

Jake is a stiff. Lighten up, man!

Tenley. She got first of three 1-on-1 dates on The Bachelor last night. She seems cute and nice. Much like Jake. We hope she wins. That's as good as last night's episode got.

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Vienna Girardi, one of the final five girls remaining on The Bachelor, is either the worst person ever or the subject of an ongoing smear campaign by the show's producers.

In a promo for tonight's episode, Vienna is actually described as "pure evil." Sweet, virginal Corrie, by contrast, is just "pure." Which one goes home tonight!? Hmm!

Is Vienna really the evil, manipulative bitch we've been led to believe she is? The other four girls seem to despise her, and thanks to promos like this, fans do as well.

Granted, she's kind of ditzy and annoying, but this seems a little over the top, don't you think? Are they just trying to pit fans against Vienna to stir up more drama?

We'll have to see. TVF will have a full recap of tonight's developments up for you in the morning. Here's the ABC promo for tonight's dramatic episode of The Bachelor:

The Bachelor star Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, who he chose on last season's controversial After the Final Rose special, will walk down the aisle in March ... on ABC!

The two-hour special, The Bachelor: Jason and Molly's Wedding, on March 8 will include the dress fitting, planning, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and the ceremony.

Past Bachelor and Bachelorette participants will be on the guest list.

The wedding of Mesnick and Malaney is only the second such event in the reality franchise's 19 seasons, following Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter's marriage in 2003.

Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney got engaged in October in New Zealand, the backdrop of The Bachelor season finale, where he originally went with Melissa Rycroft.

Fortunately for Molly, he changed his mind on the reunion special airing just moments later. Now the lovebirds are counting down the days until happily ever after.

An episode of The Bachelor as painfully boring as last night's was from start to finish offers us little by the way of funny critiques, or any sort of critiques for that matter.

Nevertheless, we'll give it a shot. That is how we roll.

If you missed it and want the full rundown, here's our recap of Week Four of the show's 14th season. Below, we've got the highlights (term used loosely) with our take:

Normally The Bachelor star grows on us by now. Not so for Jake.

Screaming. A Bachelor staple. Normal girls do not act like this ... right?

Awkwardness. Seriously, Jake. Pull it together. Have some fun, you uptight stiff! Stop reading the cue cards and at least enjoy that airheads are throwing themselves at you.

Ganging up. This week's (and last week's) manufactured drama is that Vienna is Satan and needs to die a painful death (or at least pack her bags this week). The girls have such disproportionate hatred toward her, it's hard not to laugh at how fake it is.

He is so serious. Jake Pavelka, unlike past Bachelor stars, really wants to find a wife. This is drilled into our brains at every conceivable moment. The evidence? Dude wants to eliminate MORE than the required number of girls this week - and he does!

Roses: Gia, Corrie, Tenley, Ali and Vienna. Eliminated: Ella, Kathryn, Ashleigh and Jessie.

Matt Grant was the star of the 12th season of The Bachelor (now in its 14th). He was the British dude. He got engaged to Shayne Lamas. That didn't last. He is producing a new reality show, though, and it is called Pimp My Bride.

We think this is all actually true.

"[It's] an organic follow-up to The Bachelor," Matt Grant told Us Weekly about his new show, adding that he first wrote the series after finishing The Bachelor in 2008.

"It's bascially about the groom being in control of the wedding."

Matt Grant is returning to reality TV. Time to celebrate!

Guess The Bachelor stars won't be on it, then. That show has never produced a successful wedding, although Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney are angling to be the first.

Sorry to say, we don't see it happening this season, either. No offense, Vienna Girardi, but you just don't strike a lot of people as marriage material. Hope we're wrong!

Grant himself got engaged on The Bachelor, but he and Shayne Lamas called it off after a couple of minutes after he realized he was engaged to a complete airhead.

Just kidding. Not really.

Matt says he is also considering appearing in the Bachelor spinoff Bachelor pad, which he calls "a Big Brother Bachelor with all the Bachelor stars in one house." Hot.

Let's be honest, The Bachelor star Jake Pavelka is not exactly a smooth operator. He seems like a good dude, just one completely ill-equipped to handle reality show drama.

Despite the contrived "returning for the right reasons of his own accord" nonsense to help Jillian last season, Jake always seems out of place. Week Three was no exception.

Follow the link above for a full recap of last night's super-catty action. Below, we've got some of the highlights from a drama-filled week on ABC's long-running reality show.

Jake and Jon Lovitz mull things over.

Comic genius. A Bachelor staple is plugging something completely random. Jon Lovitz's comedy club certainly fit the bill. The girls' stand-up comedy routines? Raw pain!

Going through it together. Jake and Vienna went bungee jumping to "overcome their fears as a couple." Who met last week. And who is jumping off a bridge by choice.

Third wheel action. Jake's date with Ella at Sea World featured the arrival of her son. That was very cute, though we feel a bit bad for the kid, since she's not gonna win.

B!tches. Seriously, we know that a dozen women fighting over the same guy can't end well, but they all seemed particularly pathetic, desperate and catty this week, right?

Roses were given to Vienna, Ella, Gia, Corrie, Tenley, Ali, Jessie, Kathryn and Ashleigh. Eliminated: Valishia, Elizabeth, Michelle and 80 percent of this writer's brain cells.

We thought we'd heard everything, but apparently ABC has ordered a spinoff of The Bachelor franchise in which former contestants live together, Big Brother style.

Its working title? Bachelor Pad, obviously.

Yes, we're dead serious.

The series will reunite 20 contestants from the previous 13 seasons of The Bachelor and five of The Bachelorette, which have produced a combined one marriage.

Executive producer Martin Hilton said the Pad's concept was inspired by the real-life relationships that have continued among former Bachelor cast members:

"All these people have been friends, enemies, and bring all this great back story. It seemed like there was an opportunity to combine that with a new show."

Will Bachelor Pad feature any of these hotties? Here's hoping!

Contestants will live in a house and compete in challenges, some inspired by incidents from past seasons. Each episode will end with Big Brother style evictions.

ABC has ordered seven episodes, with host Chris Harrison on board of course. Expect ABC to premiere the show in the late summer post-Bachelorette finale.

Names of the Bachelor Pad cast have not been released, but "top" players, including former winners, are on board. Um, hooray, Brad Womack and Andy Baldwin?

The Bachelor returned last week proved it's still going strong, climbing slightly in the ratings for its 14th edition. Click here for a recap of last night's episode.

The Bachelor star Jake Pavelka eliminated three more women last night. Well, he eliminated two, and ABC kicked off another one. There was quite a bit of drama at the end.

For the first time ever in the history of this storied television program, a contestant entered into an "inappropriate relationship" with a staffer. Thus, Rozlyn was banished.

Did she actually do anything wrong? Unimportant. ABC wanted her gone and she is. Jake pretended to be sad. Some other highlights from the Week Two of The Bachelor:

Jake and a half-dozen extremely intelligent women pose for InStyle.

In and out of style. A Bachelor staple is cross-promotion. Enter InStyle and their exclusive photo shoot! Five of the women on this "date" loved it. Christina? She got drunk.

One-on-one heat. Ali received the season's first one-on-one date and needless to say, Jake is into her. We have a feeling she will be in his final four, without any doubt.

Divorcees. Both Vienna and Tenley are divorced, despite their young ages. Vienna opened up to Jake about her past, while Tenley is still waiting for the right moment.

Word choice. Chris Harrison's word selection when the show announced it was booting Rozlyn - winner of the InStyle date rose - was awkward and seemed contrived.

Michelle. She is still a freaking nut job. It's too bad the show decided to get rid of her only slightly less insane understudy, Ashley. Oh well. One crazy chick will have to do.

Roses were given to Ali, Elizabeth, Vienna, Gia, Tenley, Ella, Valishia, Corrie, Jessie, Ashleigh, Michelle, and Kathryn. Christina, Ashley and Rozlyn are on their way home.