Handsome White Man Named New ‘Bachelor’

Ashley Hebert, this past season’s “Bachelorette,” could have easily pulled aside finalist Ben Flajnik and told him that she was going to choose J.P. Rosenbaum. Instead, she allowed Ben to go through with his proposal, which she swatted away like Dikembe Mutombo in his prime. “NOT IN MY HOUSE!” said Ashley, flexing for the cameras as Ben’s heart broke in front of a national TV audience.

But it’s gonna work out just fine for Ben, who will star in the next season of “The Bachelor” and get his choice of 25 women, at least 20 of whom will have bigger boobs than Ashley.

The 28-year-old California winemaker was dissed by Bachelorette Ashley Hebert this summer, and it seems things didn’t work out between him and Jennifer Love Hewitt on their apparent recent date (“Rumors are rumors … we did meet, but totally by coincidence,” she insisted to Ryan Seacrest.) But Flajnik will have the ladies lining up in January if all goes according to the network’s current intentions. [EW]

Golly, it’s so good to hear that this tall California winemaker with a careless tumble of curly brown locks is going to get another chance at love. He probably would’ve spent the rest of his life alone if ABC didn’t toss him this life preserver.