The Fourth of July was the previous day, but last night’s Jake Pavelka-Vienna Girardi interview on The Bachelorette may have been the most explosive display.
Together for the first time since the Breakup of the Century, the former couple began the segment in (fairly) civilized fashion before things got out of hand.
“I’m so mad at you and I’m just disgusted with you,” Jake said. “You are a fame whore, that’s what you are,” Vienna retorted. “You’re a liar is what you are.”
So it went.
In the climactic scene, Vienna tried to apologize, only to break down after Jake angrily raised his hand, forcefully ordering “Please stop interrupting me.”
She began to cry, to which Jake said, “again I got interrupted.” She then said, “You are the fakest person I have ever met in my life!” and stormed off set.
As their tumultuous and utterly predictable split continues to play out in public, Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi will discuss it Monday on The Bachelorette.
The duo sat down with their former host-pimp Chris Harrison to talk about the split for the July 5 segment, and let’s just say it’s as ugly as it is contrived.
A sneak peek of the interview reveals no big Bachelorette spoilers – just dueling accusations and blaming one another for the demise of a fake relationship.
Asked why they made the breakup so public, Vienna said: “Either way, our relationship had been public. No matter how we broke up, this had to happen.”
Right. There was no other option.
“The world was going to want to know,” she said. “I know Jake and I knew as soon as we broke up he was going to run to a media outlet and tell his side. I just wanted to make sure I had a voice also. I haven’t had a voice this entire time.”
Jake responds … well, presumably. The clip we have here doesn’t show that part, but he reportedly gets so pissed at her that makes a fist at Vienna at one point.
Girardi’s accusations are consistent with what she’s been saying all along, though – that he’s a fame whore who misled her. Dude doesn’t even put out!
There’s also the rumor that Jake isn’t into girls, but we’ll leave that alone for now. Follow the jump for a sneak preview of the couple on The Bachelorette …
Reuniting for the first time since the end of their fake relationship, Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi faced off in a joint interview on Wednesday night.
For a segment to air next month on The Bachelorette, of course.
The taped reunion between the fame-obsessed pair, whose breakup is becoming more bitter by the day, quickly got out of hand – and nearly violent.
According to reports, Jake Pavelka “exploded in anger” at Vienna Girardi and at one point turned toward her and pulled his arm back, making a fist.
It was a shocking display that left Vienna in tears, and left witnesses wondering if Jake might be getting ready to straight up whomp his ex-fiancee.
At another point, Jake told Vienna to “shut up” three times.
FAKE COUPLE, REAL DRAMA: That’s Jake and Vienna for you.
The Breakup of the Century is dominating headlines this week, prompting ABC to capitalize by secretly reuniting the warring duo for footage that will air July 5.
They had to know what was coming (possibly because they scripted it).
“Jake was visibly angry,” a source said. “At one point he wheeled back and I thought he was going to throw a punch. He pulled his arm back, his hand in a fist.”
Despite obvious tension and drama, a longtime friend of Jake’s insists: “Jake would NEVER hit her, EVER. End of story. The guy doesn’t even use swear words.”
ABC also denies that any punches or near-punches were thrown. “The atmosphere was emotionally charged,” the network acknowledged in a statement, but:
“However, and contrary to reports that have surfaced, at no time was anyone physically in harm’s way, nor was anyone ever threatened with physical violence.”
As Bachelorette host-pimp Chris Harrison tried to keep things from getting heated, Pavelka stood up in frustration, asking pointedly, “Will you just let me finish?”
“He couldn’t get a word out, it was very reflective of their relationship,” says a source, who adds that host Chris often had to tell Girardi, “Vienna, let him talk.”
The Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky, whose season premiered last night, says she’s no longer feuding with nemesis Vienna Girardi. All together now … Phew.
Chris Harrison, the show’s pimp-in-chief, confirmed the hatchet burying at Dancing With the Stars (which aired right after The Bachelorette season premiere).
The two ladies, who famously clashed on The Bachelor while in competition for Jake Pavelka, even “hugged each other and, said ‘Hi,’” back stage at the taping.
“That’s one of the ways Ali has grown as a person,” Chris said.
What, by not being a completely catty b!tch? Great job, Ali!
The Bachelorette star Ali, left, and The Bachelor winner Vienna … yeah.
Back in the day, Ali Fedotowsky would call out Vienna Girardi for, among other things, bragging that she’d “shake her boobs in Jake’s face,” but not any longer.
“[Ali] regretted some of that,” Harrison added. “I get it. Look, in the heat of the moment, on the show, you say some things, you regret certain things, there are things you look back and might not do and that was one of them. She apologized for that.”
Fedotowsky is “so happy for Jake,” Harrison went on about the new star. “She realizes now that it wasn’t meant to be, she wasn’t supposed to be with Jake.”
Harrison said he thinks Vienna Girardi got a bad rap as the villain on the show, and that anyone writing her off is presumptuous. Can’t we all just get along?
Apparently we can/ Jake Pavelka even posted a pic on Facebook of him, his fiancee and Ali. Oh, how times change (click here to be THG’s Facebook friend).
We don’t know what’s more surprising, that Dancing with the Stars would actually have one of its contestants’ fiancees come on the show, or that Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi are actually still together months after The Bachelor ended.
Vienna and Jake haven’t had much time to celebrate their engagement, as he joined the Dancing with the Stars cast about 10 minutes after The Bachelor finale.
But at least Tuesday night, Vienna Girardi will get in on the ratings action reunite with her man again, according to Chelsie Hightower, Jake’s partner this season.
“We had our second rehearsal today and surprisingly, Vienna isn’t nervous at all,” says Hightower. “If it were me, I think I’d be vomiting all night, not sleeping.”
“But Vienna is doing really well and she’s so excited.”
Like all of the other season 10 couples, she and Pavelka will take to the floor together and perform one last dance – theirs is the Viennese Waltz – at the finale.
Girardi and Dmitry Chaplin will join them on the floor, “then Dmitry and I will hand Jake and Vienna over to each other,” Hightower says. Someone kill us now.
“It’s a slow, romantic waltz – a simulation of a pre-wedding dance.”
The future Mr. and Mrs. Jake Pavelka have not made any formal wedding arrangements, but do plan to set up residence in L.A. when DWTS ends next week.
“She’s a great girl,” Chelsea says of Vienna, who was said to be completely devastated by Jake’s elimination a few weeks ago. “They are very happy together.”
Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi have been engaged 10 days. Or one for each beautiful baby The Bachelor couple apparently wants to make some day.
“The other day it was 10!” Vienna exclaimed when her fiance told E! News, in response to a question about starting a family, that “We want five kids.”
Five. Ten. Either way, too many little Viennas for the world. Fortunately, she may agree. “No, no, no, like 2-3,” Girardi said, “but not for a few years.”
Pavelka and Girardi may be have babies on the brain following the romantic season finale of The Bachelor, but walking down the aisle? Not so much.
“We’re going to wait awhile before we start talking about wedding dates,” Vienna Girardi said. “We want to have some normality in our relationship.”
The future Mr. and Mrs. Pavelka. [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]
Fortunately for Jake, normalcy means taking part in reality show. The pilot is competing in his third of the last year, signing on for Season 10 of Dancing With the Stars.
Also par for the course for Jake? Controversy. The inevitable rumors that Jake’s been cheating with Chelsie Hightower, his cute Dancing partner, have already surfaced.
Vienna insists she’s not bothered by that noise.
“I actually love Chelsie,” she said. “She and I are very, very good friends. I was in the studio today, watching them dance… I’ll be sitting in the front row every week.”
Before being picked by Jake Pavelka as his trophy fiancee on the ABC dating show, she was doing the usual stuff – bikini and occasional topless modeling.
We don’t know what kind of calendar features topless girls in scarves holding giant stuffed beavers, but thank goodness TMZ unearthed a photo from it:
Vienna Girardi’s beaver: Insert crude joke of choice here!
Despite rumors that she is an airhead, and/or a manipulative b!tch who “tricked” Jake, and haters speculating that they absolutely will not last, they appear happy.
At least until Jake sees these ridiculous photos of his (hopefully) drunk future wife circulating online. That won’t be good. We give it a few weeks at the most …
No longer having to hide their lightning hot passion, The Bachelor stars Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi stepped out for dinner twice this week in Hollywood.
The somewhat embattled couple put on a united front – in front of the paparazzi at celebrity hot spots, natch – at Koi on Wednesday and The Palm last night.
Vienna Girardi and Jake Pavelka smiled and greeted photographers as they left last night, enjoying a nice dinner following their visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Asked to comment on his alleged ex’s claims that he cheated on Vienna and discussed marriage with her, Pavelka shrugged his shoulders, shaking his head.
“Nah,” he replied. Bold, Jake. Bold.
Jake Pavelka: Two dates with Vienna. One blue turtleneck.
Although Pavelka’s so-called ex has given interviews on the subject anonymously, reports suggest that the woman in question is 24-year-old Tanya Douglas.
She says Jake promised her he’d come back for her, and the women on The Bachelor meant nothing to him. He says they dated but there was no overlap.
If the vicious rumors are hurting Vienna and Jake, you wouldn’t know it.
Walking hand-in-hand and sporting ear-to-ear grins on both occasions this week, the newly engaged duo certainly look like they may just go the distance.
Well, maybe. This is The Bachelor. If not for Molly Malaney and Jason Mesnick getting married last weekend, the show would be 0-fer. So, we ask you …
Jake Pavelka maintains that by the time he popped the question to Vienna Giraldi on the season finale of The Bachelor, he was a 25-woman man and nothing more.
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Jake Pavelka maintains that by the time he popped the question to Vienna Giraldi on the season finale of The Bachelor, he was a 25-woman man and nothing more.
Stop the presses, Bachelor fans, ’cause I think we may have been had!