On Monday’s The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All show, Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney declared they’re in love and plan on getting married.

Even though it’s only been about six months, Mesnick said, “I’m really in love with Molly. She’s completely different from anybody else I’ve ever dated.”

Added Molly, “I would marry Jason tomorrow. I’m so crazy about him. I know I want to spend the rest of my life with him.”

Jason agreed that they’ll “for sure” wed, but she has to move from Milwaukee to Seattle first. (Despite the distance, they said they still manage to see each other at least every other weekend.)

Host Chris Harrison called last spring’s Bachelor finale where Mesnick dumped ex Melissa Rycroft “the most controversial moment in this show’s history.”

Was all that heartache worthwhile, he then asked.

“What we have gone through … just absolutely ripped to shreds…” replied Molly. “It was definitely tough on me.”

Mesnick added that “it was a bigger backlash than I thought.” But he said he would endure even more scrutiny if that was what it took to be with Molly.

Said Molly, “Based on what we’ve gone through I can’t see anything could ever break us.”

Mesnick’s ex Rycroft has gone on to find love as well. Usmagazine.com recently confirmed that she and beau Tye Strickland got engaged last month.

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Bachelorette Jillian Harris will likely pick Ed, predicts a former star of the show.

“I think she’s going to choose Ed,” Bachelorette alum DeAnna Pappas tells Extra.

On Monday’s Hawaiian episode, Ed couldn’t keep his hands off Harris as they took a catamaran ride and went for a swim. He even declared to Harris, “I love you,” and begged her to “trust” him.

Pappas says Harris has “only had eyes for Ed from day one.”

She adds that Harris likely regrets keeping bad boy Wes around for so long.

“I’m sure Jillian is sitting at home [watching the show] going [hits head], ‘Why did I let him get past night one?’” she says of Wes, who revealed he had a girlfriend and only signed up for the ABC reality show to publicize his album.

Pappas goes on to say it will be tough for Harris to confront the guys she let go on the July 20 The Men Tell All episode.

“You’re extremely nervous,” Pappas says, recalling her own experience. “The final four [guys], you have really strong feelings for. So I know for me going back and seeing Graham and Jeremy on my season, it was extremely hard, so I know it’s going to be that way for Jillian.”

The Bachelorette finale airs July 27 on ABC.

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EEEEK!!! OMG, YOU GUYS!!! I have been ITCHING to write THIS blog since day one!! YES, I did it (sent Wes home)! I don’t even know where to start with this one. I think I will keep it mostly to the Wes scenario, as this has been the bone of contention for sometime.

But first, you guys, I need to tell you that I DID read all 364 comments (and counting!) that were left after my blog. I do read them all every time. I try my best not to read all the other stuff on the other websites (there is some nasty stuff out there!), but this one is my baby. For some reason, last week, you all wrote the sweetest most sincere messages. I truly sat on my couch with a little tear in my eye, holding my hand over my heart — I felt like each note was a reach out from a best friend. Thank you all for caring for me so much, making me laugh and wanting me to be happy.

The funniest entry I read was from Karen:

Dear Jillian,
If you have rejected Ed, I think I might leave my husband and two children and wander around Chicago with a bullhorn looking for him and his adorable sweater.

Girl, I sure hope it works out for you!

Other than the Wes scenario (which I will dive into soon), I’m not sure I have much juicy gossip about the Spain episode. Kiptyn crashed that scooter about 6 times that night, and although he was mortified, it made me like him even more … I laughed for days about that. I could just see us traveling through Europe doing the same thing and having a blast! Reid and I were starving by the time we went to dinner that night because our attempt at purchasing a romantic little picnic was a complete FLOP and our lunch was dry, tasteless and rubbery — again, another clue as to how much fun we would have traveling together. I did realize in Spain that I’m not as much of a foodie as I thought; I practically starved to death there! I swear I couldn’t find anything to eat but white bread, cured ham and escargot!

For the rest of Jillian’s blog entry on People.com, visit http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/07/07/bachelorettes-blog-i-kept-wes-way-too-long/?xid=070809-ecmail-tvwatch-bach.

Shawn Johnson has a new trophy to add to her collection of Olympic medals!

The 17-year-old gymnast won Dancing With the Stars Tuesday night. She and professional dance partner Mark Ballas beat out fellow finalists Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft on the ABC show’s season finale

“I’ve learned I can be more than just a gymnast!” Johnson, the third Olympian in eight seasons to win the mirrorball prize, told Usmagazine.com. “I’ve really grown as a person. This has really changed my life. This whole thing has been the time of my life — just an amazing experience.”

All three finalists performed one last dance, each earning a perfect score of 30 from the judges. After viewer votes were combined with the judges’ scores, Rycroft was dismissed first.

Show host Tom Bergeron said “less than one percent” separated Johnson and runner-up Marini, who was paired with pro dancer Cheryl Burke.

Johnson and Ballas were completely shocked when they were announced as winners.

“I was blown away — absolutely floored!” Ballas, who hit the ground when they found out they won, told Us.

Johnson adds: “Especially when they said less than one percent! I could not believe it!”

Why did they deserve the top prize?

“Shawn has improved every week, [and] she’s really peaked over the last three weeks with the samba, the tango — they all showed consistent improvement,” Ballas told Us. “Then we came out and gave everything we had to the freestyle. We are so honored and want to tell the fans thank you for voting for us.”

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Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft is officially a bachelorette no more.

She and fiancé Joe Waterman were married at the Private Dining Rooms of Spiaggia in Chicago Friday night, according to a spokesperson for the restaurant.

“She looked beautiful,” said a guest who attended the wedding, held in a room overlooking Lake Michigan. “It was a very small wedding but very fun.”

Waterman’s sister and his best man offered toasts the couple. “Joe’s sister cried giving her speech,” said the guest, “but that was it for the crying.”

Then, it was party time. After a late dinner served shortly after 10 p.m. – the menu offered beef, chicken, pulled pork and pasta, followed by cake – guests enjoyed themselves on the dance floor as a deejay provided the music.

“We didn’t hit up the dance floor until later and we were all on it past midnight,” said the guest.

Schefft, 32, and Waterman, 35, met on a blind date in February 2008. “We really get each other,” she told PEOPLE last year after getting engaged. “I guess it’s true things move fast when you meet the right person.”

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I have to admit, when I watched last night’s Grey’s I did get choked up.  No actual tears, but I was close.

Izzie’s illness is even freaking out Grey’s Anatomy boss Shonda Rhimes, who blogged about the 100th episode: “I went up to the editing room when the show was being edited, and I saw my first images of Izzie lying in the hospital bed bald. And I started to cry. And I said to Susan Vaill, our brilliant editor, I said, ‘Ummm…I think Izzie is really sick.’ And she hollered at me ‘You made her sick!’…But here’s the thing. Until I saw my Izzie, bald and pale and wheezing in that bed…I mean, she’s sick. She’s really sick. And I didn’t see it coming. My brain got ahead of my heart on this one.”

In happier, potentially less-fatal news, Shonda also tweeted that there is “some good Cristina/Owen coming up too.” Yay!

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Melissa Rycroft is getting used to being hugged.

In the past few weeks, the former Bachelor contestant turned Dancing with the Stars front-runner has been embraced — literally — by everyone from waitresses to fellow shoppers at the mall, to American Idol’s top dawg, Randy Jackson.

Spotting the judge as she walked from her trailer on the lot where both DWTS and Idol tape, Rycroft couldn’t believe Jackson even knew who she was. “He was like, ‘Heeeeeeey, how are you?’ ” the 26-year-old Dallas beauty says. And, then, of course, it happened: Jackson pulled her into a big bear hug.

“Just three months ago I was on the other side,” Rycroft says in the latest issue of PEOPLE, on sale Friday. “I am so not a celebrity.”

But ever since her six-week engagement to Jason Mesnick on The Bachelor ended when he dumped her on national TV for runner-up Molly Malaney, she has become just that. Seven days after the televised kiss-off, Rycroft was on DWTS, where public sympathy — and her natural dancing ability — has made her a fan favorite.

Yet despite her way with the waltz, fame was never part of Rycroft’s plan. Instead? The former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader intended to spend the months after her Bachelor split nursing her wounds. “I go through stages,” Rycroft says of her grieving process. “I will shut down and lock myself in my room. And then I’ll get to the point where I can’t be by myself and I have to be around other people all the time. Otherwise I’ll drive myself nuts crying. I cry it out. Then one day I wake up and go, I’m okay.”

And if Rycroft sounds like an old pro at bouncing back after breakups, it’s because Mesnick wasn’t the first guy to let her get away.

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