Jake Pavelka

Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi.

Doomed from the start, the happy relationship of The Bachelor star and his final rose recipient soon devolved into one of more memorable celebrity breakups of the year, culminating in an ugly, hilarious interview on The Bachelorette.

But Jake's calmed down since.

While he “absolutely” believed he'd be with Girardi for life, the upcoming guest star on Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva says “It’s okay; everything happens for a reason.”

Now he just wants Vienna, who recently started dating a new guy, John Sala, to be happy. “I hope she goes out and breaks a million hearts,” Pavelka told People.

Vienna's moved on from Jake (right) with John Sala.

“I think she’s got some pretty realistic goals in life, and I wish her the absolute best. Hopefully she’ll find a guy she can spend the next 60 years of her life with.”

Jake Pavelka hasn’t interacted with Vienna Girardi since all the drama went down, and hopes that over time, he and his ex can even become friends despite it.

“I don’t have any hurt feelings over it,” he says. “The whole thing was tragic and it was sad but it happened and … it really is okay. We’ll probably let a little bit of time go by, but I’m sure someday our paths will cross and we’ll be friends.”

Unlike Vienna, Jake hasn't started dating yet: “I’m tip-toeing back over there,” he says. “I haven’t really met anybody that I wanted to date. I guess that goes both ways. You kind of have to meet somebody that wants to date you.

In other words, someone who doesn't mind dating a guy who will berate them for remeasuring the furniture. You'd better not have a little dog either, ladies.

Hey, at least she went after a single guy for once.

Rachel Uchitel, the professional adulteress whose affair helped wreck Tiger Woods' home and nearly did the same to David Boreanaz, is back on the prowl.

Sadly, it looks like she struck out - with Jake Pavelka!

According to an inside source, Uchitel, who met Jake while he was on Dancing With the Stars and she was working as a correspondent for Extra, sent one of Pavelka’s closest friends an email asking to be set up with the newly-single ex-pilot.

Jake said thanks ... but no thanks.

Rachel Uchitel wanted a ride on the wings of love. Not to be.

The Bachelor star just parted ways with Vienna Girardi, his airhead final rose recipient on the show, ending their engagement in a public feud for the ages.

Allegations of infidelity, lies, doubts about Jake’s sexual orientation (he says he's not gay) and an explosive interview on The Bachelorette made for a memorably ugly split. No wonder he's not looking to date again just yet.

Still picking up the pieces after the Vienna debacle, the Dallas native wasn't interested in the Celebrity Rehab 4 alum’s advances: “Jake thinks she’s probably a ‘nice girl’ but isn’t looking to date anytime soon,” the source said.

A nice girl? Are we talking about the same Rachel Uchitel?

Fresh off his contentious breakup with Vienna Girardi, The Bachelor star Jake Pavelka appeared on The View and said he is single again and looking for love.

With a girl.

The reality star debunked rumors that he is gay, sparked in large part by Vienna's charges that they weren't intimate for months during their relationship.

"There was a lack of intimacy because our problems were so heavy," Jake Pavelka said. "I can't separate love and intimacy, apparently that makes me gay."

Asked point blank, he said, "no, no, I'm not" adding, "one of my best friends is gay. I can't see how someone can look at [Vienna] and find her not attractive."

We'd take issue there, but thanks for clearing that up, Jake.

Jake Pavelka: Not gay. Just a stiff. [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]

The one-time pilot said that he and Girardi "have not spoken" since their fiery TV reunion taped on June 24. He also defended his angry behavior that night.

"What people don't understand here is, that was 24 hours after my [publicist] called me on the set of Drop Dead Diva saying the relationship was over."

"[Vienna] didn't call me, it was a publicist."

"24 hours later, I'm sitting there and I wasn't ready," he said of the joint interview with Girardi, which aired during a July 5 episode of The Bachelorette.

"You know when you're kids and you're trying to protect yourself? It was like that. When I got down on one knee, I meant it. I did [The Bachelor] for love."

Pavelka passed on good wishes to Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky, a contender for his final rose on The Bachelor before she left for her job at Facebook.

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Ali Fedotowsky wants to set the record straight. Pun intended.

The Bachelorette star, who ditched Pavelka on The Bachelor to save her career at Facebook, and/or star on her own reality show, says Jake's not gay.

Rumors that Jake is gay have surfaced since his ugly split with Vienna Girardi last month, fueled by his perceived lack of interest in sex with women.

But Ali Fedotowsky shot down the rumor on Lopez Tonight, saying "Just because he wears really nice turtleneck sweaters does not mean he's gay!"

Very true, Ali. But what about refusing to kiss his fiancee?

Ali and Jake before her departure last season.

Fedotowsky said she still remembers how difficult it was to walk away from Pavelka, even though she walked away from that same job shortly after.

"It was a tough decision," she said of leaving after hometown dates. "I thought I was falling in love and wanted to stay, but I had a really good job!"

In the end, she said her Facebook bosses told her she could return to The Bachelor. "I tried to go back," she said, "but he wouldn't take me back."

It's true. We saw the phone call.

This week on The Bachelorette, Frank Neuschaefer turned the tables on her, leaving her to be with his ex despite making it into Ali's final three. That left her reeling, but she still has two great guys remaining. Which should she pick?

Jake Pavelka does not like to be undermined.

His former fiancee, Vienna Girardi, learned this lesson the hard way when he berated her for daring to remeasure furniture ... or speaking in most occasions.

He also hijacked her phone number.

Seriously. The Bachelor star recently refused to give Vienna control over the cell phone account he signed her up for, barring her from using her own phone.

“When Vienna and Jake moved to Los Angeles, Jake signed them up for cell phones,” a source explained. “Since the breakup, Vienna has been trying to keep her phone number. She is independent and just wants her own phone."

"But he wouldn’t release her number.”

DROPPED CALL: Vienna's wireless problems are more complex than most.

Vienna Girardi called her wireless carrier, AT&T, in a final attempt to wrest control of the account from Pavelka, only to be told she needed Jake’s permission.

AT&T received a big fat no from the fame whore.

“I am not willing to release this number to her. I would rather pay for it myself for the next two years than have her use it,” Jake reportedly told a source.

Damn two-year contracts.

Resourcefully, Vienna ended up getting new number and wireless account and spent much of Monday night texting her friends, so it all worked out in the end.

No word if she did any sexting with Lee Smith.

Jake Pavelka’s sexual orientation has been a hotly debated topic since The Bachelor star's very public breakup with his airhead fiance Vienna Girardi.

Long before the rumors surfaced Jake is not into girls, Vienna was already making comments to that effect, blaming it for the pair's lack of intimacy.

“Who wouldn’t want to touch me? He’s obviously gay,” Vienna told her ex-boyfriend, Brian Lee Smith, while she was still living with Jake Pavelka.

News that Jake refused to put it to Vienna during the final six months of their relationship, which only lasted about six months, was widely reported.

He didn't even really deny this during their recent TV smackdown, either, awkwardly saying there's more to relationships than physical intimacy.

Yeah ... like starring on every possible reality show. Pavelka later asked why he would want to be intimate with a woman who undermines him.

We know Jake wouldn't put out. The only question is why, and the true answer to this reality TV mystery may never be revealed. [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]

Remeasuring the furniture after he already had? Unforgivable.

But back to the topic at hand. According to Lee Smith, Vienna had some very harsh words for her then-fiance: “He cries too much like a b!tch!”

“I really think he’s gay.”

Jake has emphatically denied that he is gay, but "abstained from sex" for religious reasons after they started their relationship ... supposedly.

Toward the end of their whirlwind engagement, Vienna started to re-think her opinions. Maybe he's not gay, just a fake liar fame whore!

“He might not be gay, but he seems to only care about his career. I don’t want to hurt him. I just want to end things,” Vienna told Smith.

The Bachelor star Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi were not engaged for long, but long enough for the former Hooters girl to cheat on him with her ex-boyfriend.

Or so Lee Smith claims, at least.

Smith, whose sexy, misspelled emails to Vienna were leaked last week, says rekindled his physical relationship with Vienna 10 days before her split from Jake.

Lee claims it began when she visited her Florida home because of her sick dog - an ugly topic between Jake and Vienna in their epic fight on The Bachelorette.

"We were in my truck hooking up, her shirt was off and Jake just kept calling over and over again," Lee told Radar Online in a hilarious, exclusive interview.

Lee drove Vienna back to her car she came up with an excuse.

He says that as he was in the process of trying to sex up Vienna in his truck, "she said, 'I can't just ignore his calls or he'll freak out and call every minute.'"

"She's an amazing liar. She picked up the phone and started yawning and pretending she was sleeping," Lee said of Jake's final rose recipient. Diabolical.

Smith says Vienna began calling him just one month after she got engaged on The Bachelor. "At first, she would just tell me she missed me," Lee recalls.

"Then she asked me to break up with my girlfriend because she couldn't imagine me having sex with another woman" as she and Jake weren't intimate.

"She told me, 'I couldn't see myself having a child with anyone but you. And then I asked her how she could tell me this while she was engaged to someone else. And she told me, 'It's not going to work out. We don't even have sex anymore.'"

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A tearful Vienna Girardi claimed in this week's explosive interview on The Bachelorette that she was loyal to that stiff Jake Pavelka until the bitter end.

Actor Gregory Michael said he made out with her before the breakup, though, and now a bunch of emails she allegedly wrote to her ex have surfaced.

Emails full of sexual innuendo ... and spelling errors.

Lee Smith, one of many ex-boyfriends in the wild, crazy life of Vienna Girardi, has apparently been in contact with her since her stint on The Bachelor.

Vienna's "bubbie" (whatever the hell that means) released what he says is a June 14-16 email chain - i.e. a week before the Breakup of the Century.

Excerpts from the unintentionally hilarious exchange:

We think this is Lee Smith, the ex-boyfriend of Vienna Girardi in question. We're not positive, however. The girl kind of got around. Like a record, one could say.

Lee Smith: "I'm here again feeling a oh so fimilar [sic] feeling ... I think it is a mixture of antisapation [sic] or mabey [sic] it's me just missin you either way..."

Vienna Girardi: "You are my life. I love you so much and can't wait to be in your arms again."

Lee Smith: "Don't u miss touching all the time are [sic] long baths ..."

Vienna Girardi: "I do miss all that. I love you so much bubbie. I want our life back."

Lee Smith: "u are all I want!!!! I want to sex u up so bad baby!"

Gosh, who wouldn't want to sex that up ... well, besides that prude Jake. Interestingly, contrary to her claim that Playboy made up the rumor of a Vienna Girardi nude photo spread, her last email says, "I may be doing playboy this weekend ... Xoxo."

A source close to Vienna says she wasn't the author of these gems obtained by TMZ, and thinks someone "hacked her email." LOL, who's the source, Lindsay Lohan?

Jake Pavelka hates Vienna Girardi so hard.

Not only did he berate her during their heated interview on The Bachelorette, his camp is accusing his ex-fiancee of using "tear-inducing eye drops" beforehand.

In the tense and dramatic face-off, Jake and Vienna met with the ABC show's host and pimp, Chris Harrison, for the first time since they announced their split.

It was a bitter scene throughout.

Insults were traded, harsh words were exchanged and things escalated to the point where Jake raised his hand angrily and told Vienna to quit interrupting him.

She broke down sobbing and stormed off.

FAKE OR FLAKE? The Bachelor definitely trumps up story lines, and their relationship was as phony as it gets, but Vienna looked genuinely stunned at Jake's threat.

It was a scary and sad moment, and quite obvious to viewers that whatever flaws Vienna Girardi has, she wasn't faking her reaction to that particular gesture.

Still, Jake wants us to believe she was.

"When Vienna ran into the green room, she knocked over her purse and amongst the things that fell out were Vicks Vapor Rub and eye drops," said a source.

Vicks Vapor Rub has been known in acting circles to be a cry-on-cue formula. Said the friend of The Bachelor star: "These were definitely crocodile tears."

The fake tears accusation follows comments from Greek star Gregory Michael that he made out with Vienna before she and the alleged airline pilot split.

That we don't know who to believe on, but we'll tell you this - no matter what you think of her, Vienna came off 20 times more genuine than Jake Monday.

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ABC can bleep his name all it wants, but Greek's Gregory Michael is caught in the middle of the Breakup of the Century between Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi.

In last night's explosive interview on The Bachelorette, Jake accused his ex-fiancee of cheating with Michael, which she denied. "There [was] nothing," she said.

Michael says there was something, alright.

"That's a lie," the actor told Us Weekly. "We definitely made out that weekend [June 20] and Vienna made it very clear that it was over between her and Jake."

Girardi said they only danced for less than "nine seconds," but Michael counters: "I wouldn't say we danced for a few seconds. We danced as a group all night."

"We also danced alone for parts of the evening."

Was Vienna Girardi lying about her dalliances with Gregory Michael during last night's tell-all interview - and is Jake's now-single ex seeing the Greek star now?

Michael says she did tell the truth when she told Jake Pavelka that she hardly knew him: "At the time the interview was conducted, we hardly knew each other."

But he took aim at Jake when the former Bachelor star referred to him directly when saying, "That boy told me you cheated when he went on-the-record."

"I never said she cheated," Michael insisted. "I said we hooked up and she said they were broken up. I would never do that if she was in a relationship."

He says he doesn't know anything about Pavelka's claim that Vienna Girardi hooked up with other guys: "I don't know what flings Jake is referring to."

The ABC interview ended with Vienna storming out in tears after Jake raised his hand in anger and stunningly reprimanded her for interrupting him.

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