A Bachelor Bashing

Season six "Bachelor" winner, Mary Delgado, arrested for battery

By Sarah Hall Nov 26, 2007 6:33 PMTags

Looks like yet another Bachelor romance is on the rocks.

Mary Delgado, who received the final rose and a proposal from Byron Velvick on the 2004 edition of the matchmaking series, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly punching a man she lives with in the mouth, police said.

Her victim was presumably Velvick, though he was not named in the police report. However, authorities said the pair had lived together "as a family" for the past three years.

Delgado was booked on a battery charge and was found to be under the influence of alcohol at the time of her arrest, according to a police affidavit. She was released Wednesday afternoon.

Ironically, the twosome appeared together on ABC's Bachelor special, After the Final Rose, just hours before their dustup and reaffirmed their intention to marry, saying the wedding would take place sometime next year.

During the appearance, Delgado, a former NFL cheerleader, said she was so enamored of her pro fisherman fiancé that she had even taken up his sport of choice.

"I love this man so much that I have fallen in love with the sport that he loves," she told the audience.

There's been no comment from the couple since the altercation.

Should Delgado and Velvick still make it down the aisle as planned, they would be the second Bachelor twosome to wed.

To date, Bachelorette star Trista Sutter and her man of choice, Ryan Sutter, are the only couple to tie the knot after meeting on the show.