Next season of 'Bachelor' is a success

You'll be happy to hear that Jason Mesnick, the hottie single daddy from last season of "The Bachelorette" has found love and is engaged!

Though the new season of "The Bachelor" doesn’t begin airing until Jan. 5, he tells People magazine that he did find love on ABC’s reality dating series.

The 32-year-old Seattle single dad said, “I found exactly what I was hoping for, what I was looking for. I’m completely in love.”

(Take that DeAnna!)

Jason's marriage proposal to DeAnna Pappas was thwarted in July on the season finale of "The Bachelorette." Jason was in the final two, but Pappas chose professional snowboarder Jesse Csincsak. And...Jesse and DeAnna didn't last too long - they have already broken off their engagement.

“I really did fall in love with DeAnna,” Jason says, adding that when he heard she and Csincsak split in November, “I was shocked. I thought they were going to make it.”

Well - we'll be tuned into this season to find out who Jason's lucky lady is.

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