Jake Pavelka Admits Going on Match.com
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Before going on The Bachelor, Jake Pavelka tried everything to find a mate.
"I've tried Match.com," he tells UsMagazine.com. "It is really hard to meet people, and the reason it's hard to meet people is timing. You don't know where people are! Did they just come out of a relationship, are they completely closed off emotionally, or have they had a whole line of really bad breakups?"
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The best part about finding love on a reality show is the "little adventure," says Pavelka, 32. "The one thing the producers ensure is that everybody is in a good place personally, unless they're in a current relationship -- and that has happened. That isn't supposed to happen, and it's those people who are there strictly for selfish reasons -- career ambitions. To be on The Bachelor just to be famous, well, that's not the way you want to do it. I've watched three seasons now and America gets wrapped around the axle when you go on there to just be on TV. America wants to see the romance and in the end they expect that commitment to come true."
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Even though things didn't work out so well with Vienna Girardi (who, incidentally, has a new man), Pavelka tells Us he still believes he'll find The One.
"It's not a good thing or a bad thing," he says of his single status. "Each relationship you go through, you learn a lot about yourself. So after the whole Bachelor thing, I had to work through everything I learned about myself."
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He tells Us he's "still looking for someone to be romantic, passionate and protective with, someone who is kind and I can trust. The hard part for me is dating women who have a pre-conceived notion of who I am. I'm not 'Jake The Bachelor.' I'm just Jake. I'm just a guy who was on a television show."
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39jake is such an actor!!! just like when I met him... all about himself
Why am I getting this link Twittered to me over and over again this week? I don't know who this wako boy is! Stop the tweets!
Jake is fake which is everyones know about him. I saw him in DDD. OMG, he does not know how to act. Go back to your old job "Pilot". Stop crying likes baby. You are mean and your look is evil so no women like you.
Oh Jake, how sad only 39 comments counting mine. It looks like your 15 minutes is just about up. If you want to prolong, you'll have to suck it up and go back to Vienna. Probably go ahead and marry her, too. At least the wedding will be paid for and you two can collect some dough. Then sell the ring when you get a divorce! Otherwise it's so long for you and you'll never have that Hollywood career.
He can search the internet and the world for a mate, but until Jake gets his ego and his temper under control, this guy will scare every female within a 50,000 mile radius away from him! Run, ladies, run!
barfo!! this guy is still on the US radar? Jake, you've been digging way past 6 ft now, you can go ahead and lie down and throw dirt on yourself. your threw with hollywood dud.
DOUCH* BAG!! HE IS SO GROSS!
He's just a JERK. TEAM VIENNA
JAKE NEEDS TO WORK ON HIMSELF AND HIS ANGER ISSUES BEFORE GETTING INTO ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP. HE SEEMS VERY SELF CENTERED.
Blah... who cares about this loser?!
LOOK OUT GIRLS!! This man is an angry little pimp and he will slap a b****. He made Vienna run out off the set crying--he crazy.
He is the most weazzly looking thing I've ever seen. The beady eyes, those lines around his mouth...weasle! He looks like a weasle!
Barf.
Jake gets more evil and squat looking by the day. gay d-bag gay d-bag gay d-bag gay d-bag
Where's my tazer!
Well Jake, did you go on Match before or after you went to the Mel Gibson school of charm - you have little man syndrome pal and there is nothing you can do about it. You are too needy for most women. Who wants a baby man??
maybe he should go back to flying, and fly away...he is so creepy.. bet it will be BIG news when he finds a women willing to date him.....
He looks like the devil in disguise. His hair is sticking up.
He's such a HYPOCRITE! He went on the show to go into acting, look at what he's doing always trying to stay in the tabs, calling the paps to get his pic taken, and the biggest joke him being on Dropdead Divas. HE WAS HORRIBLE!! LMAO
Rasputia you're fckin hilarious!! I can already imagine Eddi Murphy in Norbit as the crazy girlfriend. Ok anyways, just going on what I've seen of him so far, it seems like Jake's a little short-fused. From what Vienna said on their reunion he gets offended by little things and feels that his "manhood is being questioned" when a woman disagrees or questions him. This isn't the renaissance, it's 2010 and as far as I'm concerned a woman is allowed to state her opinions too.