The Bachelor Proposes to Vienna!
Jake Pavelka offered the final rose-and an engagement ring-to bad girl Vienna Giraldi, but did he make the right choice?


Updated on May 18, 2011, 5:23 pm ET
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Jake Pavelka and Vienna Giraldi

It's official: Bad girls do finish first.

Last night on The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love Jake Pavelka, the 32-year-old pilot from Dallas, Tex., followed his heart as he asked 23-year-old Florida marketing representative Vienna Giraldi to be his bride.

This is no news to Betty Confidential. In interviews, Jake has said that he's always been drawn to the crazy girls. Why would we expect him to change now?

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Picking Vienna certainly wasn't without its controversy. Right off the bat, she didn't click with the other 24 women at the Bachelor house. Her biggest adversary, Ali Fedotowsky, spent half the season saying how she could never be with Jake if he also had feelings for a girl like Vienna. (Looks like all that smack talk paid off for Ali who has been named the new Bachelorette!)

That lack of female bonding continued as Vienna met Jake’s mom, Sallie, and his sisters-in-law, Laura and Lindsay. Of course, it didn't help that Jake had casually mentioned to them that Vienna was the “girl that nobody liked” back at the mansion. Their claws were out, especially after Vienna giggled like a 12-year-old as the family grilled her on why she just can't get along with other women. And she didn't make any inroads with Jake's mom, who lives by the mantra that the women are the glue that hold a family together and it's a daughter-in-law’s duty to uphold that tradition.

But you can never judge a book by its cover. After several awkward moments of confrontation with the family over dinner, Vienna plainly stated that people didn't like her because she spoke her mind honestly, choosing to say what she really felt about them to their faces and not behind their backs.

Jake Pavelka and Vienna Giraldi

Though she couldn't recite a laundry list of qualities why she loved Jake, she actually seemed genuine as she told his mom that she, "can't see leaving here without him,” which prompted Sallie to apologize for judging Vienna so quickly. “I think she would make a good wife for him,” Jake’s mother said.

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livetogossip
#1. livetogossip on 03/02/2010 - 10:36 am (EST)
Tenley was so sweet. She should be the new Bachelorette. I give Jake and Vienna three months.
dollface
#2. dollface on 03/02/2010 - 11:03 am (EST)
what a loser he is, and now we have to watch him strut his stuff on dancing with the stars. ugh, vienna should dump him already.
NYCdogmommy
#3. NYCdogmommy on 03/02/2010 - 11:30 am (EST)
I was kinda hoping that he'd dump them both and go after Allie.
hermark
#4. hermark on 03/02/2010 - 12:09 pm (EST)
Frankly, I still believe that Jake should have chosen Gia -- she possessed the qualities of a siren & a sweetheart. Both Tenley & Vienna seemed to be opposite ends of the same measure -- either extreme would be difficult to manage in a relationship. I disagree with the choice of Ali for the Bachelorette -- she was an absolute turn-off in her consistent fixation on & negativity towards Vienna -- it was a catty & stereotypical display of insecurity. Gia's my girl -- she was the most mature & dignified of all! Go Gia -- Jake's mistake will be some lucky man's gift!
eve92345
#5. eve92345 on 03/02/2010 - 12:17 pm (EST)
Jake & Vienna have spunk in there relationship they have such good times together thats how all relationships should be yes I too thought he was going to dump both and go to Ali but I think Jake made the right choice A TOAST TO GOOD TIMES! hope it last
jessica03
#6. jessica03 on 03/02/2010 - 12:28 pm (EST)
I dont know what Jake sees in Vienna. I would have chosen Tenley over Vienna. I think what Jake has with Vienna is just physical chemistry and nothing more. I dont think they'll last! I'll bet on it! I dont think Jake knows what he wants at all.
UGOGIRL2
#7. UGOGIRL2 on 03/02/2010 - 1:10 pm (EST)
I quit watching the batchelor after Andrew Firestone, he was a good friend of my son's, so we got a lot of the inside scoop. And, I strongly believe that most of these guys are single because they have no clue as to what they want or that they even want to find a girl. Obviously, they LOVE the attention and their 15 minutes of fame. And, in the few weeks that they have to select a mate, they don't use their brains, but rather they are drawn to the physical connection. I agree with Jessica 03, this one will go the way of the others. It'll probably last a few months and then it will be over. She would never, in a hundred years fit into his family with all the other females. While this show seems like a good idea, I'm not sure that they really do their homework beyond selecting physically attractive girls and guys! Watch for the next announcement of the split!
dmason48
#8. dmason48 on 03/02/2010 - 2:15 pm (EST)
Jake and Vienna won't last. Maybe he'll show up at The Bachelorette house at some point and ask Ali if she's found someone there...and if not, tell her she was right about Vienna and ask Ali to be his girl. He's a loser.
By the way, when does this guy work? He was on The Bachelorette, The Bachelor, and now he'll be on DWTS.
And Vienna, the "marketing representative"....give me a break. I heard that she's a waitress at Hooters, so she markets what??? LOL
citymouse
#9. citymouse on 03/02/2010 - 2:15 pm (EST)
How many of these Bachelor/Bachelorette pairings have really lasted?! Not many, from what I understand...
DD13
#10. DD13 on 03/02/2010 - 2:27 pm (EST)
comeon guys, you know why Jake chose Vienna, after all the first meeting she had with him, she sneaked back to his bedroom and spent the night.After that he was waitingfor the next night, not trying to find out anything about the other girls. He kept saying how sexy she was, boy He should know.She should have been thrown off the program after the first night with him. My pick was Gina, she was a real Lady.

 


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