Friday, March 15, 2019

Colton And Cassie

Issue dated March 25, 2019: Colton and Cassie
Image result for Colton Underwood cover of People

There they are, the new dating-but-not-engaged couple Colton and Cassie. Will they beat the odds and actually get married? Almost certainly not, but I acknowledge that this was an out-of-the-box dramatic ending and the second straight year that the finale didn't follow the usual script of the show.

If the headline sounds familiar, you're right:

Issue dated March 23, 2015
The Bachelor Finale: Chris Soules Proposes to Whitney Bischoff

Four years ago Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff "risked it all for love," although that turned out to be a risk that didn't pay off, because they're not a Bachelor success story.

They broke up just a few months after their finale aired; more seriously, two years later Chris was arrested for fleeing the scene of a fatal car crash. A google search this morning found this article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls [Iowa] Courier dated January 22, 2019:

Sentencing for reality TV star Chris Soules has again been postponed.

Chris Soules, a 36-year-old rural Arlington resident known for his work on “The Bachelor” and “Dancing with the Stars,” had been scheduled to appear in court in February for sentencing on a charge of leaving the scene of a serious injury accident in connection with the April 2017 crash that killed Kenneth Mosher of Aurora.

On Tuesday, Judge Andrea Dryer approved a request by the state to delay sentencing because a member of the Mosher family isn’t available for the February date, and the assistant Iowa attorney general assigned to the case will be in another trial at the time. Soules’ attorney didn’t resist the request.

The new sentencing date was set for May 21 in Buchanan County District Court in Independence, and two hours was allotted.

The charge is a misdemeanor, and Soules faces up to two years in prison and a $6,250 fine.
(Read the story here.)

Last year at this time: Issue dated March 26, 2018

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