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"Bachelorette" Taps Jen Schefft
Can Jen Schefft keep The Bachelorette batting average at 1.000?
The 26-year-old Chicago native, who won, then lost the heart of tire heir Andrew Firestone in the third installment of The Bachelor on ABC, will take another shot at finding true love--reality-TV style--as the titular significant-other seeker on the next edition of The Bachelorette.
Sources close to the show confirm to E! that Schefft will begin her romance search this fall as the third Bachelorette, and the third former Bachelor contestant, to take the reins and command her own red-rose ceremonies.
Earlier speculation centered on Trish Schneider, dumped by Jesse Palmer on the last edition of The Bachelor, but producers ultimately went with Schefft.
Now she will hope to keep the Bachelorette streak alive, adding another successful romance to the lineup that includes Trista Rehn, the Bachelor reject who married her Bachelorette sweetie, Ryan Sutter, and Meredith Phillips, the Bachelor 4 reject who is engaged to her Bachelorette 2 pick, Ian McKee.
The men of The Bachelor, meanwhile, have notoriously failed to make their love matches stick. Including last season's Bachelor 5 hunk, pro football quarterback Jesse Palmer, whose pairing with winner Jessica Bowlin lasted only about a month after the show's finale last May, The Bachelor stars are 0-for-5 in the game of reality love.
One of those failed matchups, natch, was the Firestone-Schefft pairing. The couple, whose romance lasted eight months, was the subject of many a celebrity weekly cover story, including tales of shopping sprees, ski trips and much public canoodling. Schefft even left her job in Chicago to move to California and take a job with Firestone's family winery.
But rumors began swirling that the millionaire was enjoying the fame the show brought him--not to mention the attention from the some other bachelorettes--and Firestone announced in December 2003, on TV, of course, that he and Schefft had split.
Schefft, who was briefly linked to The Apprentice star Bill Rancic after his reality-show win last spring, will now get the chance to pass out roses to 25 new bachelors. USA Today reports that production on Bachelorette 3 will begin in September or October, and sources report that ABC plans to premiere the new season in January. This season's action will relocate from Southern California to Manhattan.
And there's a bonus for the wooer who wins the Bachelorette's hand in the final rose ceremony this time around. Word is that shrewd Schefft comes engagement-ready, as she reportedly kept the three-carat Harry Winston ring Firestone presented to her at the end of The Bachelor 3.
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