Vienna Girardi will not be keeping the engagement ring given to her by ex-fiance Jake Pavelka on ABC’s “The Bachelor.”
Now that the couple has split, Warner Bros./Horizon, which produces the reality series in conjunction with Next Entertainment, will be swooping in to take the $50,000 2.72-carat diamond and platinum ring.
Jake and Vienna may be moving on to greener pastures and more suitable partners (Vienna is reportedly already dating “Greek” actor Gregory Michael), but the ring’s future is unknown. Warner Bros. spokesperson Natalia Desrosiers said, “The ring goes back into production.”
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It’s not clear whether that means the ring will be used on the next installment of “The Bachelor” or kept in storage until the likes of Vienna and Jake have slipped into the pop culture graveyard. Next Entertainment did not return calls.
Vienna was seen as recently as Tuesday wearing the ring as she received a Biolustre hair treatment at the Platinum Image Spa in Los Angeles.
Caught unawares upon returning from a business trip in Europe, West Hollywood jeweler Neil Lane, who has designed four engagement rings for “The Bachelor,” greeted the news of the breakup of Jake and Vienna with philosophical detachment.
“I’ve been designing rings for 20 years. What happens afterward, I don’t know,” he says. “I do the rings. I can’t do everything.”
Lane confirmed that the rings he designs for the show do belong to Warner Bros. and he didn’t know if Vienna’s ring would be given to another so-called lucky girl on “The Bachelor.”
ABC’s fantasy dating shows, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” have thus far only produced two couples who have managed to actually get married. Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter have been married since 2003 and have two children. Jason Mesnick and his runner-up Molly Malaney were married on ABC in February.