“-Also in the third episode, Ella gets a 1-on-1 date at Sea World with her son and Jake. A date, coincidentally, that was originally planned for Rozlyn and her 7 year old son. Ella does not receive a rose at the end of this date and is sent packing. I’m hearing Jake essentially tells her she should be with her son, and not him. Ouch.”

It turns out Ella was awarded a rose and stayed.

Oh well, almost always right still is a fine track record.

Just ask Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski who were clearly set up by Fleiss and the other producers. They not only knew about Ed and his girlfriends, but rumour has it, encouraged his contact – after all no one in the history of the show had ever been allowed unprecedented access to a laptop and a cellphone. And Fleiss et al were likely the ones that tipped off US Weekly to the scandal in the first place, to be unfurled at the right moment. You don’t think ABC could have kiboshed that scandal if they really wanted to but the whole season was edited
to lead up to the post show scandal. Making Jillian look like a fool, ha ha, she ended up picking the real guy with the girlfriends, not Wes, and making Ed look like slimbeball.

When you look at it objectively it was a brilliant plan – I think Ed inadvertently gave the producers the material to work with but it was brilliant. The post finale scandal kept a degree of attention on the show and JED right up until the new season started.