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.

Jake Pavelka star of The Bachelor and the girl he picked Vienna Giradi have confirmed that they have ended their engagement after just 3 months. A rep for the couple said “Jake and Vienna have split and appreciate the respect for their privacy at this time.” It is being reported that their have been issues in the relationship since not long after the show finished taping. Tabloids were reporting that Jake had contacted his ex-girlfriend the day after taping wrapped to tell her that he still loved her and that the women on the show meant nothing to him. The couple had not set a date for their wedding but they just recently been gushing about an impending wedding and Vienna had even said that she had purchased a pair of wedding shoes saying she had gotten some Jimmy Choos with crystals all over them. The two were also just in Kauai where they stayed at the Grand Hyatt for five days to celebrate Vienna’s birthday and that was just back on May 31.

UPDATE: Of course we are all wondering why Jake and Vienna split. TMZ is reporting that Jake called off the engagement because he believed that Vienna was “stepping out” on him with actor Gregory Michael from ABC’s show “Greek.” Vienna took to her twitter account to say “The accusations of me cheating are completely fabricated. 100% False.” It is also being reported that Vienna wanted out of the relationship because she believed that Jake was a “fame whore” and that he constantly abandoned her for photo shoots and media events. When TMZ spoke to Vienna’s stepmom Lisa here is what she had to say “I don’t think [Jake] ever really loved her … I think he picked her because she is a dramatic person and it was good for the ratings.” Lisa also claims Jake would often exaggerate about his relationship with Vienna in public … saying, “In real life, they never kissed, didn’t have a romantic relationship and he never told her that he loved her.” Oh and she gave the 3 carat ring back to Jake worth $50,000 but Jake doesn’t get to keep it either, he must give it back to the show. Rule is they only get to keep it if they get married.

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.

Tonight Ali Fedotowsky gets a second shot at love after appearing on last season of The Bachelor where she made it down to the final four and had to leave the show for work. Tonight we will get to see her meet 25 guys and she said this time she is choosing love and has left her job at facebook to be on the show. The show starts at 9:00 p.m. and only 17 men will be receiving roses. In post interviews about the show Ali will not reveal wether or not she found love or is engaged she will only say that she is “happy”.

Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft is happy to announce that she is expecting her first baby! Her and husband Joe Waterman announced they are expecting their baby in November and are both “so excited.” Schefft rose to fame after appearing on The Bachelor in 2003 and winning the heart of Andrew Firestone. The couple split just days after the wedding of Bachelorette Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter after a 10 month engagement. Schefft then went on to star as The Bachelorette two years later in which she chose no one at the end. She met husband Waterman, a trader, on a blind date in 2008 and the couple married last May. Congrats to them!

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.

Last night on Monday’s episode of The Bachelor where Jake Pavelka is now down to the final four women comes a shocking twist. Jake gets to visit each of the ladies in their hometowns and meet their families. Towards the end of the show Ali Fedotowsky a fan favorite reveals to Jake that her job has giver her the ultimatum that if she stays on the she will lose her job. Ali kind of asks Jake what she should do and he tells her that if she leaves he will be “heartbroken” but that he cannot “guarantee” that she will be receiving the final rose. Ali chose to leave the show and go back to her job. Many of Ali’s fans then took to her fan facebook page to tell her how they felt about her decision to leave Jake. It seems as though she was definitely a fan favorite and some are still holding hope that she will return to the show.