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To fully hammer home just what it was that The Bachelor's Brad Womack was forfeiting by dangling his unfathomable hunkiness before 25 single women only to cruelly snap it away at the last moment, the show's producers trotted out the sole two successful romantic pairings from the series and its spinoffs: The Bachelorette's Trista and Ryan, holding the Baby That Reality TV Made, and Season 6 Lesser Hunk Byron Velvick and chosen contestant Mary Delgado, who sported a sparkling engagement ring and gushed lovingly that she "[loves] this man so much that I have fallen in love with the sport that he loves." Later that night, Delgado would find herself behind bars for assaulting the professional bass fisherman of her dreams:

Police say that Delgado and Velvick...got in an angry confrontation at 12:15 on Wednesday morning. According to police, Delgado hit Velvick in the face, splitting his upper lip. Velvick refused medical treatment at the scene.

When police arrived at the two-bedroom townhouse that the couple shares in Tampa, Fla., they arrested Delgado, 40, and took her to the Pinellas County Jail, where she was fingerprinted, photographed and charged with one count of battery. She spent about 14 hours in lockup, being released at 2:58 on Wednesday afternoon...The charge, a first-degree misdemeanor, is punishable by up to one year in jail.

While we're relieved that Velvick chose not to escalate things by swinging a 22 lb. striped bass at his fiancée's head, the ugly incident nevertheless offers a vivid illustration of how even the seemingly most charmed of reality-TV-spun fairy tales sometimes offer less than happily-ever-after endings. Still, we doubt one domestic squabble will do much to assuage a still-enraged reunion show audience, who have spent the days since Tuesday's broadcast clogging ABC phone lines with demands that forsaken DeAnna be given her own season of The Bachelorette that kicks off with Host Chris Harrison ritually removing Womack's shriveled, useless heart with a rusty trowel on the very Proposal Podium where the shocking jilting took place.