ABC has announced the hosts and cast of it’s new spin off called Bachelor Pad which will premiere on August 9th. The show will feature Chris Harrison and Melissa Rycroft as it’s co hosts and will have 19 former Bachelor and Bachelorette almuni from past seasons. The reality show contestants will face off in competitions for a prize of $250,000 and a second chance at love. The competition will feature different challenges in which a contestant will be voted off each week. Chris Harrison had said in an interview with Ryan Seacrest that “We’ve always wanted to do an all-star edition. We decided to come up with just a kind of fun, don’t-think-too hard summer franchise.” He also added that the cast will be sharing “two or three bathrooms.” We put them in one house, sleeping in one room. You get this many hot girls and hot guys in one house and things happen!” The cast has been revealed and are as follows:

Tenley Molzhan – From Jake Pavelka’s season, she was runner up.

Gia Allemand – The 26 year old swimsuit model from Jake Pavelka’s season who made it to the final three.

Ashley Elmore – The 30 year old teacher from Jake Pavelka’s season.

Craig McKinnon – The 34 year old dental salesman and villain already eliminated from Ali’s season.

Michelle Kujawa – The 26 year old saleswoman sent home from Jake Pavelka’s season and known for talking too much about marriage and babies.

Jesse Beck – The 25 year old contractor sent home from Ali’s season.

Jessie Sulidis – The 25 year old cosmetic saleswoman sent home from Jake Pavelka’s season, also known for confronting Rozlyn Papa at The Women Tell All.

Jonathan Novack – The weatherman from Ali’s season.

Elizabeth Kitt – The woman eliminated from Jake Pavelka’s season after playing mind games with Jake.

Peyton Wright – Sweet 27 year old from the season with Andy Baldwin.

Kiptyn Locke – Runner up from the season with Jillian Harris.

Krisily Kennedy – Runner up from Charlie O’Connell’s season.

Jesse Kovacks – Wine maker from Jillian Harris season.

Gwen Gioia – Heartbroken by Aaron Burge on the second season.

Juan Barbieri – The 37 year old contractor from Jillian Harris season.

Natalie Getz – The 28 year old bartender who famously told Jason Mesnick “I like bears.”

David Good – The 28 year old who recieved the “man code” on Jillian’s season.

Nikki Kappke – From the season with Jason Mesnick.

Wes Hayden – Villain from Jillian’s season.

Tonight on ABC there will be a special interview with Vienna Girardi and Jake Pavelka to address their recent breakup. The host Chris Harrison did a pre interview and opened up about who he believes is telling the truth and has said that the confrontation did get very “heated.” There have been rumors flying around that during the interview at one point Jake made a fist as if he was going to get physical with Vienna but Chris said that at no point in time was anyone ever in harms way. This will all be aired on the 2 hour Bachelorette special tonight July 5.

Melissa Rycroft who you may remember as The Bachelor winner turned dumpee by Jason Mesnick will be returning to co-host the new ABC show Bachelor Pad with Chris Harrison. The show will premiere on August 9, and it will be set up in a Big Brother type fashion where the 20 former contestants will live together and compete in challenges for a chance to win $250,000, and, most likely, hook up. Rycroft will be there to help with the competitions and rose ceremonies. Since being dumped on the show Rycroft has gone on to do Dancing With the Stars and Good Morning America, Chris Harrison added that she was chosen because the two have remained good friends and that she is an obvious fan favorite. Melissa is now married to Tye Strickland.

At the end of The Bachelor After The Final Rose special that aired Monday Ali Fedotowsky was named as the next Bachelorette! Chris Harrison announced that Ali was loved by people all over the country and that is why she was chosen. Ali said “I am so excited!”"I am so thrilled and honored and grateful, I just can’t believe it! I’m just really grateful. Will you be watching this season? Do you think that they made the right choice by choosing Ali or do you think they should have chosen Tenley?

Last night on The Bachelor’s The Women Tell All it was more of war between Rozlyn and Chris Harrison than between Jake and any of the women. Chris Harrison grills Rozlyn on the “inappropriate” relationship Rozlyn was involved in with producer Ryan Callahan while Rozlyn implies that Chris Harrison is a cheater! This all happened when Harrison was explaining that he was upset that the producer was fired and that he had considered him to be a friend. Rozlyn shot back saying “That’s news to him, especially when you were hitting on his wife in New Zealand. He thought that was crazy.” And then Chris went on to say “I won’t dignify that with a response I hope you will become a better person through this.” Three of the women in the house all had eye witness accounts of the relationship between Rozlyn and Ryan Callahan, Rozlyn sat on the couch and basically said they were all liars. In an interview with Harrison since the accusation made by Rozlyn he had this to say “Beyond the fact that it’s just flat out not true, that comment was well beyond the line of decency and speaks volumes to the kind of person Rozlyn is,” he said. “My wife, who I’ve been with since I was 18 and have been married to for over 16 years, was in the audience that night and got as big a laugh out of Rozlyn’s comment as I did.” Harrison is also a father of 2.

As you have seen in previews for the upcoming season of The Bachelor starring Jake Pavelka, it is being reported there was some kind of sexual scandal. Previews are leading the viewers to believe that one of the women vying for Jake was involved with a producer of the show. Chris Harrison has done several interviews to discuss the scandal and talk about how embarassed the show is over it. Rozlyn Papa has been identified as the woman involved and she is speaking out to defend herself. She did an interview with Radaronline.com and said “No, I did not have a sexual relationship with a producer on the show,” and also that “What they mean by inappropriate relationship is not what inappropriate relationship means in the real world.” She wanted to clarify the relationship that she had with the producer saying “I had a relationship with someone on the show that didn’t benefit them,” Rozlyn said, referring to the network and the show’s senior producers. “We remained really close but we are not dating now,” Rozyln said of the since-fired producer.
“This is a TV show and it’s made for entertainment, but it is a far cry from reality,” Rozlyn revealed. “I know that things on television weren’t always as they seemed, but I had no idea the extent of the show manipulation.”