The show features 31-year-old Jake Pavelka, a pilot from Dallas, Texas, courting 25 women.

Pavelka finished in seventh place on season 5 of The Bachelorette featuring Jillian Harris.

The season concluded on March 1, 2010, with Pavelka choosing to propose to 23-year-old marketing rep Vienna Girardi.

Biographical information according to ABC official series site, plus footnoted additions Jake Pavelka competed in the tenth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Runner-up Tenley Molzahn, along with contestants Gia Allemand, Ashley Elmore, Elizabeth Kitt, Michelle Kujawa and Jessie Sulidis, returned for the inaugural season of Bachelor Pad.

Elizabeth and her partner, Jesse Kovacs, were eliminated at the beginning of week 6, finishing in 3rd place.

Jake, Gia, Vienna Girardi, and Ella Nolan, returned for the second season of Bachelor Pad.

Ella and her partner, Kirk DeWindt, were eliminated at the beginning of week 6, finishing in 4th place.

Vienna and her partner, Kasey Kahl, were eliminated at the end of week 6, finishing in 3rd place.

Jake takes her in a private airplane to Palm Springs and drives them to an open field having a dinner and dancing to music performed by Chicago.

Group date: Corrie, Elizabeth (NE), Ali, Jessie, Michelle, Ashleigh, Tenley and Kathryn.

They go on a helicopter ride San Diego SeaWorld and she receives a pleasant surprise – her son, because Ella celebrated her birthday.

At the start of the episode, Chris Harrison tells the remaining ladies that they will be living in RV for their trip across the coast.

Gia and Jake toured New York City where they look pictures of sight-seeing locations together, including the Statue of Liberty and modeling poses.

At the turn of the dramatic events, there was no rose ceremony and Ali left the competition early so she would not lose her job.

Presumably he has intercourse with each of them which may have made it difficult for viewers to maintain friendly feelings towards Jake (especially as he asks Gia to leave at the rose ceremony and Tenley had only ever slept with her ex-husband).

Jake and Vienna were seen in a public appearance as a couple, Jeffrey Osborne sang "On the Wings of Love" at the closing of the show.

[18] On August 14, 2013, third-place contestant Gia Allemand died after a reported suicide attempt.

[19][20][21] On 16 February 2016, Alexa (Lex) McAllister died after an apparent suicide attempt in Columbus, Ohio, as reported by TMZ.

Per E!News, the local police said that on 13 February they'd received a call in which it was claimed that McAllister had overdosed on prescription drugs.

While McAllister was in a stable condition on her way to Grant Medical Center, then E!News got access to a police report, which stated that she had taken "a lot" of pills.

In his free time, he takes dancing lessons, woodworking, and has fun flying acrobatic planes and he is also a former child actor.

[25] Pavelka became a member of an ABC reality show for the third time when he appeared as a celebrity contestant on the tenth season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Chelsie Hightower he was the fifth competitor eliminated on April 27, 2010.