Ben Flajnik, who proposed to Ashley Hebert and was rejected on ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” is getting another chance at finding love on camera.
The network confirms it has tapped the 28-year-old northern California winemaker to star in the next season of “The Bachelor.”
The show will return in January for its 16th season.
On “The Bachelor,” single women live in a house together and compete for the affection of a single man. So far, no bachelor has gone on to marry the woman he picked while on the show.
Hebert is now engaged to J.P. Rosenbaum. She chose him in the season finale of “The Bachelorette.”
Court rejects Wesley Snipes’ latest appeal
The federal appeals court in Atlanta has turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley Snipes to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Tuesday rejected the appeal by Snipes, who was convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income tax returns.
His defense lawyers contended they received emails from former jurors that reported misconduct among other members of the panel. One of the former jurors said in the email that three other jurors acknowledged they had determined Snipes was guilty before the trial began.
A federal court rejected the request for a new trial and noted that there were reasons to question the veracity of the allegations made in the emails. The 11th Circuit upheld the ruling on Tuesday, finding that there wasn’t “strong, substantial and incontrovertible evidence” that would warrant a new trial.
Snipes started a three-year term in a Pennsylvania prison in December. He’s appeared in more than a dozen films, from “White Men Can’t Jump” and “Demolition Man” in the early 1990s to the blockbuster Blade trilogy.
