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The Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas didn’t get her happily ever after, but she’ll be helping other brides-to-be plan their dream weddings.

Pappas, 26 — who recently called off her engagement to show winner Jesse Csincsak — will be co-hosting Lifetime network’s Get Married, a show that covers everything about weddings. The second season premieres Jan. 5.

On the show’s blog GetMarried.com, Pappas announce her new gig in a post dated Nov. 11.

“I am so happy to be co-hosting the new season of Get Married! Every weekday morning I will be bringing you the latest in wedding planning tips and trends, and weekly I will be blogging here at bloggerbrides.com,” Pappas writes.

And though she acknowledges she’s no longer a bride-to-be herself, she’s excited at the prospect of helping others plan their big day.

She writes: “Many of you may know me from seeing me on television looking for love…The second show, many of you watched as I got down to one man…he got down on one knee and proposed to me…unfortunately we have since gone our separate ways but still remain very good friends.
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After his public breakup with Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas, Jesse Csincsak doesn’t have to be reminded that every rose has its thorn.

“I’m cut right now and I’m bleeding,” Csincsak, 26, told PEOPLE of the emotional split. “I just want to stop the bleeding and heal up.”

The two, who met on the ABC reality show this year and made their relationship official on the season finale in July, were engaged for four months before Pappas decided to call it off.

“I was flabbergasted by the whole thing,” he admitted while attending a private party at L.A.’s newest hot spot Bar Delux. “Losing the person that you love is hard enough, and all of a sudden, a ton of people know about it. I felt a little bit bitter about it.”

Csincsak responded to the split by posting a message to Bachelorette fans on YouTube, letting them know Pappas broke up with him because “she wasn’t willing to try anymore.” “I just wanted to get my feelings off of my chest, and whether people understood it or not, I just wanted to feel better,” said Csincsak, “so I shot the video and put it on YouTube to relieve some of that pressure.”

He’s also leaning on family and friends who have rallied to his side. “My mom just wants to take the pain away,” he said, “and almost every single one of the final twelve guys from the show have called me to say, ‘Welcome back!’” –Reagan Alexander

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Getting denied by Alex Michel on the finale of the first season of The Bachelor in 2002 may have been the best thing to happen to Trista Rehn. She became the first Bachelorette and made the best of the opportunity, offering Vail firefighter Ryan Sutter the final rose on the show and marrying him on national TV in 2003.

Since Trista and Ryan’s fairytale came true, The Bachelorette has seen other fan favorites — Meredith Phillips, Jen Schefft and DeAnna Pappas — search for Mr. Right. Phillips ended her engagement to Ian McKee after less than a year, Schefft didn’t even choose a suitor at all and Pappas just recently ended her engagement to Jesse Csincsak.

Now producers and host Chris Harrison hope that an unknown woman will be the next Bachelorette to find love and happiness. “It’s something I’ve been championing for quite some time,” says Harrison, who has hosted all of The Bachelorettes and twelve seasons of The Bachelor. “I totally understand and I totally love the people we’ve had — Trista and DeAnna have made complete sense — but I really just want to get away from it and try and find just that phenomenal woman out there who has no ties to the show and give her a shot.” (more…)

The wedding is off.

The Bachelorette stars DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak have ended their relationship, Csincsak says in a video posted on the couple’s Web site.

“It’s our responsibility to tell you we’re not together anymore,” he says, adding that Pappas broke up with him two days prior and he feels he did everything he could to “try to make this work.”

So just how did she break the news? By telling him, “‘I love you, but I’m not in love with you,’” Csincsak revealed. “She’s a great person but she wasn’t willing to try anymore … That’s a lot to swallow no matter who you are when you’re in love and you put yourself out there.” (more…)

 
After publicly declaring they wanted to get hitched in the Bahamas–where they’d fallen in love on The Bachelorette–DeAnna Pappas and fiancé Jesse Csincsak’s destination wedding may be changing destinations.
 
“At first we said the Bahamas and now we’re kind of torn between a few different places,” Pappas told PEOPLE Thursday at the Fox Reality Channel Really Awards.    

While they may not know where the wedding will take place, they do know what they’ll be wearing.
“I’ll wear a white dress, some brown bridesmaid dresses, that’s all I care about,” said Pappas, 26.  As for the men, “We’re not going to wear tuxes,” said Csincsak, 26. ”We’re going to get custom-made suits. I might wear some Nike 6.0’s instead of uncomfortable dress shoes.”
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When it comes to weddings, The Bachelorette’s happily engaged couple DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak are thinking small.

“We’ve gone from about 400 people, and we’re breaking it down,” DeAnna Pappas told PEOPLE at Saturday’s Los Angeles Confidential pre-Emmy party in Hollywood. “I think we want to enjoy ourselves and our day versus having to talk to a bunch of people all day long. So, we’re dwindling it down.”

With a wedding date set for May 9, 2009, the couple says they are at square one with planning. “I don’t know how people plan a wedding,” Pappas, 26, said. “I know what color I want my dresses to be, and bridesmaids’ dresses. He wants a cheesecake. And that’s about as far as we’ve gotten.”
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The Bachelorette’s DeAnna Pappas may have given the final rose to–and accepted a marriage proposal from–Jesse Csincsak, but there’s a happy ending for jilted bachelor Graham Bunn as well.

Bunn, 29, stepped out publicly with All My Children soap actress Chrishell Stause, 26, at the premiere of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 in New York Monday, where he flashed his pearly whites and gushed about his new girlfriend.

“I’m very grateful and very flattered to be with this beautiful lady,” Bunn told PEOPLE about Stause. “I’m the luckiest guy in the world. She’s just amazing.”

Bunn, a former professional basketball player who played in Germany, says there was an instant connection when the two met, but unlike his relationship with Pappas the pair took their romance at a steady pace. “I was immediately drawn and attracted to her,” says Bunn. “She’s a funny girl but we take our time.”
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A single father from Washington broadcasts his relationship status to the country only to be swamped with letters from adoring female fans. Sleepless in Kirkland?

Well, almost.

This time around, it’s Jason Mesnick, also known as the man The Bachelorette’s DeAnna Pappas passed over in the show’s finale. The 32-year-old father (son Ty is 3) has a new email account for any fans wishing to contact him.

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

After Pappas told him in the finale her “heart is somewhere else,” Mesnick’s fans overloaded his MySpace account with comments and then 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 contact Jason directly at fanofjason@gmail.com. (more…)

Trista Sutter, the original Bachelorette who found a happy ending with husband Ryan Sutter, recently spent some time with the show’s latest bride-to-be, Deanna Pappas, and her fiancé, Jesse Csincsak.

“I really have hopes that they’ll make it to the alter like we did,” she recently told PEOPLE.

After hanging out with the newly engaged couple, Sutter says their connection was “completely palpable.”

“They were all over each other — in a good way,” she said of Pappas and Csincsak’s recent visit to the Sutters’ home in Vail, Colorado. The meeting was taped for a special episode of The Bachelor-Bachelorette series, but Pappas also took the opportunity to get advice from Sutter.

“My biggest piece of advice is to get away from the craziness and the hype,” Sutter said. “They waited so long to be together, but it’s really important to focus on yourself and not believe the hype of the show. Yes, the show introduced you, but take what the show gave you and try to make it your own.” (more…)

Now that their season finale has aired, The Bachelorette’s DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak can finally step out together as a happily engaged couple — and reveal the first details of their wedding-planning process.

“It’s like this weight off your chest,” Csincsak, 26, told PEOPLE Thursday night at the Dodgers vs. Marlins game in Los Angeles, where fiancée Pappas threw out the first pitch. “She was able to go out and do press but I was just locked in a house, losing my mind [and] wanting to tell all my friends that I was engaged to the hottest woman alive!”

The first time they ventured out together as a couple, Pappas and Csincsak dined at a restaurant where they were immediately recognized by a waitress. The star-struck server jokingly said they had ruined the show’s season finale for her since she hadn’t watched it yet. “I would have never have thought that random people would know me,” Csincsak said of getting recognized by strangers. “It’s a trip and it’s awesome and there’s no one I would rather share it with than [DeAnna.]” (more…)