Another one bites the dust. That’s right; yet another Bachelorette’s engagement has been broken off. This time the offender is Rachel-Ray-look-alike DeAnna Pappas and former fiancé Jesse Csincsak, who is taking his heartbreak public.
How They Met
The former couple met while filming the fourth season of The Bachelorette. Pappas was the woman everything was centered around and Csincsak was just one of the 25 men vying for her attention and affection.
In the end, it came down to Csincsak and single-father and account executive Jason Mesnick. Both men flew to Georgia to meet her family and Mesnick even received permission from Pappas’s father for her hand in marriage. Her family was very taken with Mesnick and, in sharp contrast, was not too impressed by Csincsak’s lack of future plans past his professional snowboarding career.
In a shock to the viewing public, Pappas’s family and Mesnick, Pappas didn’t choose Mesnick. She tearfully told him she loves him but is in love with somebody else. Csincsak got the last rose, proposed and got the answer he was looking for.
The Wedding That Wasn’t
Pappas and Csincsak revealed their wedding date would be May 9, 2009 in the Bahamas; exactly one year after their engagement in the place they fell in love. Former Bachelor Andy Baldwin was set to officiate the wedding but no other wedding plans had been set. In September, the couple was still throwing around ideas and weren’t even sure they wanted to have it in the Bahamas.
“We keep going back and forth from California to Georgia to Tennessee to the Bahamas,” Pappas told OK! magazine. In hindsight, the second guessing and failure to nail down plans may have been the first sign of cracks in the relationship. But photos were published of them frolicking on beaches and wearing bride and groom Mickey Mouse ears in California.
The End
Not much was printed about the couple that last few months of their relationship. Then, out of the blue, on November 3 Csincsak posted a video on the couple’s website explaining the end of the relationship.
Csincsak told fans Pappas had broken up with him a few days earlier and went on to say she gave him the old “I love you but I’m not in love with you” line. “That’s a lot to swallow no matter who you are,” he said.
In an interview with In Touch Weekly, Pappas said, “I really felt like I was going to spend the rest of my life with him.” She goes on to say that once the cameras were off and regular life set in she realized they were two different people with two different paths.
Csincsak, along with The Bachelor and The Bachelorette host Chris Harrison, blame Pappas for the end of the relationship. Csincsak said Pappas wasn’t willing to try anymore and Harrison blames the bright lights of Hollywood.
Harrison told Los Angeles radio show Valentine in the Morning that Pappas is being told she could go to Hollywood and be a big star. “I think her head's getting a little bigger than it should and I think that's led to this as well," Harrison said.
Harrison goes on to say Pappas wants to be famous and model the relationship after fellow Bachelorette Trista Rehn and her husband Ryan Sutter. Csincsak wanted to live a low-key, normal life.
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