Jake Pavelka: I didn’t go in pushing. The show does have a bit of a rough history, with people breaking up or changing their minds, and that’s OK. I tried to be very honest no matter how painful it was and I just remained open-minded.
\nJake’s cousin, Jessie Pavelka, also happens to be unmarried and has TV experience. The 27-year-old fitness model and personal trainer hosts the Lifetime series “Diet Tribe” and appeared in the network’s original holiday movie “12 Men of Christmas,” alongside Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins.
\nBefore Pavelka \u201cgot his heart broken\u201d by Jillian Harris on Season 5 of The Bachelorette, he was a pilot from Dallas, and a kinda, sort-of former actor (stage name Jake Landrum.) If you cruise over to imdb, you\u2019ll find only one credit to his acting career under that soap opera name: The President\u2019s Man, which is actually pretty awesome because it stars Chuck Norris and features some of the best poster art ever designed:<\/p>\n
Chuck Norris The President’s Man<\/p>\n
After Harris rejected Pavelka, scores of other American women sent in love notes to ABC saying that they wanted to divorce their husbands and would give away their children and\/or toy dogs just for a chance to dress up in a discounted pageant gown and drink champagne with him. Pavelka is classically cute, he\u2019s got a symmetrical face with dimples, blue eyes, blond hair, and a buff bod. Thankfully for ABC he also has the ability to rattle off romance cliches at a breathtaking pace without once cracking a smile. A gem from tonight\u2019s episode: \u201cLove\u2019s more powerful than flying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, Jake, yes it is, or should we call you Jacob? It turns out Jake is a nickname (shocking) for, wait for it, Jacob. One of the pilot\u2019s Dallas neighbors sent in a rumor to Astrochicks that Jacob Pavelka was actually married during the taping of The Bachelorette, but they didn\u2019t seem to have much evidence to back up that accusation.<\/p>\n