Another Bachelorette Romance (Did Not) Fizzle After Jef Catches Emily Cheating On Her Cell Phone

UPDATE: The US Weekly story is totally bogus. Both Emily and Jef say the US Weekly story is one hundred percent not true. 

I'm shocked.

Another Bachelor/Bachelorette pairing has gone asunder.

This makes two times for Emily Maynard. Two failed TV romances.

Tragic.

As you can read on the cover of US Weekly, Emily's former fiance, Jef Holm, caught her cheating.

Jef confronted Emily with the evidence, which consisted of text messages and pictures that Jef found on Emily's cell phone, in which Emily, and whoever was getting and sending the messages, told each other in explicit detail what they were going to be doing with each other.

I wonder if the "other" is Bachelor/Bachelorette host, Chris Harrison? Way back in June we learned from that reliable source, Vienna Girardi, of Jake Pavelka's ex fame, that Emily was romantically involved with Chris Harrison.

It was just a month ago, in July, that we saw Emily pick Jef, because, as Emily said then, "I feel like Jef would make the best husband and the best stepdad ever."

The Breakup Bomb went off in a vacation rental that Jef had rented so Emily could meet his family members that she'd not yet met. I assume this included his parents, who were off on some Mormon quest when Emily visited Jef's hometown.

Apparently Jef snooped on Emily's cell phone, finding the incriminating evidence, then took Emily to a bedroom where a loud commotion ensued, with Jef yelling, "You've been fracking cheating on me for months! Pack your stuff and get the frack out of here."

I substituted the words Jef actually used with fracking, stuff and frack, because this is a family friendly blog where I don't use vulgarisms, like the ever popular F-word and the common vulgarism for excrement.

Jef is only 28, two years older than Emily, who seems way older than 26.

Both Jef and Emily seemed like nice people. Emily did not seem like the sort who would be doing sexting while she's meeting her beloved's loved ones.

But, really, how well do you really know someone you've only met on a really cheesy Reality TV Show?

According To Vienna Girardi Bachelorette Emily Maynard Gives Final Rose To Chris Harrison

In the picture you are looking at a Tweeted picture of Bachelorette Emily Maynard and Bachelorette host, Chris Harrison, at a Dancing with the Stars taping.

The 'date' at Dancing with the Stars would have taken place after filming for the current edition of The Bachelorette was completed, with Emily having made her choice, or not, after having sampled her final three potential husbands in the notorious Fantasy Suites. Or not.

After their 'date' at DWTS Emily verbalized how she felt about the 'date' on Twitter.

"I had so much fun with @chrisbharrison tonight at @DancingABC!" Maynard tweeted on May 22.  

Harrison retweeted Maynard's post, adding, "Great night with my friend."

Now, that reliable news source, the STAR magazine tabloid, is reporting that Emily Maynard and Chris Harrison are "madly in love, and that it's gone on for a lot longer than most people realize."

It appears the prime source for this bit of shocking news is the extremely reliable, extremely stable Vienna Girardi, who won the equally stable, Jake Pavelka's, wife proposal in Season 14 of The Bachelor.

Vienna is quoted as saying, "From the beginning, I always said there was no way Emily was really going to end up with one of the guys because she really wanted to be with Chris, and it was obvious he wanted to be with her too. I vacationed with Chris and his family in St. Lucia and know him well. He was never with his wife. He's such a flirt. I guarantee Emily and Chris will end up together in the end. If she gets engaged to another man, the show will probably spin it as a love triangle."

I can completely understand how any man, including Chris Harrison, might get smitten with Emily Maynard. Emily is the first time I've been smitten with one of the Bachelorettes. Usually, after multi-week exposure, these ladies start to repulse me. But not Emily. She's incredibly good-looking, articulate, assertive, sweet-natured, funny, with a magnetic personality and an extremely strong urge to breed.

Now, I really do not find this romance thing between Emily and Chris Harrison to be very believable. Then again, can you have a more credible source of information than Vienna Girardi?

My guess is after this week's Sacred Hometown dates Emily will dump Creepy Chris at the Sacred Rose Ceremony, leaving Tall Sean, Greasy Arie and Tiny Jef with one 'f' to perform in the Sacred Fantasy Suites.

While Chris Harrison lingers nearby.

It's Official: If The Series Is Not Cancelled Due To Boring Ben Then Emily Maynard Is The Next Bachelorette

Ben Flajnik Doing a Nerd Imitation

I have heard it opined a time or two that much of the TV I watch is drivel. I prefer to characterize it as I am drawn to Train Wreck Bad Reality TV.

Likely the worst of the Train Wreck Bad Reality TV drivel that I watch is ABC's Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise.

The current edition, with boring Ben Flajnik being The Bachelor, is being particularly bad.

Ben's marriage proposal was rejected by previous Bachelorette Ashley. Ashley was as boring as Ben.

That is Ben Flajnik in the picture above. Ben seems to have a very limited vocabulary. He favors words like "amazing," "awesome" and "incredible' in various iterations. Sometimes all in one sentence, such as "You are so amazing, awesome and incredible."

It seems that the producers of The Bachelor cast for potential mates the same way Hell's Kitchen casts for cooks. The Bachelor seems to case about 20 psychotic nutcases, along with 3 or 4 women who might be suitable marriage material.

And then add a lot of alcohol to assure that the crazy gets unleashed.

Ben Trying to Scare a Girl to Death

Each iteration of this series now seems to include a stock figure, as in one boy or girl who is in it for all the wrong reasons, who treats it as a game show on which she, or he, is a contestant, with the Bachelor or Bachelorette the prize.

Currently this contestant is Courtney. I believe it is Courtney who talks Ben into going skinnydipping next week, in Puerto Rico, and after they are naked in the water tells him she is about to rock his world.

One thing I have noticed on this season of The Bachelor is when the girls go on a date with Ben they wear their bikinis under their outerwear.

Last week Ben took a group of girls skiing down a hill of manmade snow in San Francisco. Somehow the girls were prepared, with bikinis, when Ben ordered them to strip and ski.

This week Ben took the potential wives to Park City, Utah. There he had solo dates with a mousy blonde whose name I do not remember and a cute redhead named Jennifer.

Ben took Jennifer on yet one more of the sadistic try to scare a girl to death type dates. Was it last week Ben had Emily climb to the top of the Oakland Bay Bridge to terrify her? This week it was scared of heights Jennifer whom Ben made lower herself into a Utah crater, via a cable, with the cable snapping part way down, dropping the loving couple into a pool of water.

I forgot to mention, Jennifer came prepared to strip down to the always on bikini underwear.

Maybe it is just me, but if I ever went on a "date" with a person and they took me to climb up a bridge or climb into a hole I think I would quickly decide I am not interested in this nutjob.

But, it is not like Ben actually plans or executes these dates, even though that is the pretense. It's all part of the overly produced, overly scripted ridiculousness of this sometimes amusing example of Train Wreck TV.

Emily Maynard, the Next Bachelorette

And coming up.

If ABC does not cancel this franchise due to the big drop in ratings, "Emily Maynard will be looking for love on the next season of The Bachelorette.'

And you just know she won't find it.

Love that is.

Anymore than she did with Brad Womack.

Or he with her.