![]() It would take acting skills well beyond your average reality contestant’s, at least, to re-create the familiar dynamics of a fight in a bad relationship: the tongue-tied anger, the dredging up of old issues and the passive-aggressive attempts to deflect blame and argue in circles. But however real their pairing was, the fight certainly came off as real (whether any of the accusations were true or not). It is fair enough to wonder how real any relationship begun on a TV dating show is. (The regret was not shared by ABC, which stood to gain huge ratings from the public confrontation and plugged it throughout the regular Bachelorette episode that preceded it.) Then he brought out Jake and Vienna and let the recriminations begin. Murrow beginning a primetime documentary, said that it was with “a certain regret” that he brought us this update. Harrison, introducing the interview with as much gravitas as if he were Edward R. Men! They only want one thing! And it turns out to be a different only one thing from the only one thing they’re supposed to want! The charge, as Vienna brought it: that a month after they declared their love in the eyes of God and ABC, Jake became withholding and verbally abusive, that he stopped being physically intimate and-shockingly, for a reality-TV participant-he was only interested in fame. We’re rooting for the mold guy.Follow night on a very special edition of The Bachelorette, the current reigning Bachelor, Jake Pavelka, and the object of his rose-bestowal, Vienna Girardi, returned to explain to Chris Harrison the very public tabloid breakup of their made-on-TV relationship. The show then cut to previews for next week’s Bachelorette, during which Ali visits the parents of the man she’ll eventually break up with on the cover of People. Vienna eventually stormed out in a fit of tears, while Jake smirked menacingly. She responded, “And then his anger - he’ll take it and throw the thing behind the car!” (GPS causes a rift in yet another relationship.) If you discount the fact that Jake and Vienna are on the cover of Us Weekly, they sound like any other unhappy American couple, fighting about getting lost and lack of sex. “She’ll ask me, ‘I don’t know where I am,’, ‘Babe, the building you’re looking for is one mile this way, turn right on that road it’s right there on the left,’ and she’ll reach back, grab the GPS, and put it in there, and I’m like, ‘Well, what did you ask for?’” said Jake, as an example of Vienna’s undermining. Things then devolved into ugliness, including mentions of dog IVs, infidelity, gay friends, “poly-o-graphs,” withholding of sex, and emasculation, culminating in a story about a fight over the GPS. “You are a fame whore,” responded Vienna. Wait, flirted with your own fiancé? That’s kind of weird. “You sold me out to a magazine for payment, and then flirted with me all weekend!” he went on. I’m so disgusted with you,” Jake shot back. Jake’s evil - who knew?! Vienna detailed Jake’s temper and said she had to ask him to kiss her (and when he did kiss her, he didn’t use tongue). ![]() Of course, it’s not surprising that two people who went on a reality-TV show are fame-seeking liars, but after a heavily edited season of cooing and emoting and generally being on their best behavior, it was interesting to see the couple as they really are. ![]() And it turned out that they’re both horrible, fame-seeking liars! At first, it seemed like Jake was the good guy - his girlfriend sold their breakup story to a tabloid, he wanted to save their engagement - until Vienna came out to tell her side. I come home and I’m on the cover of five magazines,” he said, as if that’s a bad thing for a person whose salary comes from being on the cover of magazines. Jake looked tanned and soap opera star-ish, and said that the split took him by surprise - “I’m gone for a couple of days, and everything just explodes. Jake came on first to speak with host/marriage counselor Chris Harrison (“It is with a certain degree of sadness that I bring you this special Bachelor update,” Harrison opened, gravely). With both sides blabbing to the tabloids, it was only fair that ABC also got in on the action. The high drama of last night’s Bachelorette (would Ali choose the cute blond who almost died from toxic mold, or the hulk whose mom thinks women shouldn’t work?) was cut short to make time for some very special programming: a sit-down with last season’s winning couple, Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi, to discuss their messy breakup.
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