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Don't get us wrong, here. We love reality television. It's our thing. We dig the love triangles on The Hills, the fights and fist pumps on the Jersey Shore, and how Jon and Kate Gosselin struggled to raise eight kids.

But you have to draw the line somewhere, and when the "stars" of reality-based game shows and docudramas or whatever start acting like actual celebrities? And showing up to every red carpet and on every other show we watch?

Enough with you. Shoo.

We're all Snooki'd out, and now we'd like our real celebrities back. Can you help?

Check out our list of the Top 9 Reality Stars We're So Sick Of, and tell us in the comments who No. 10 should be!

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Dancing With the Stars is one (quick)step closer to choosing a new cohost.

E! News has learned that ABC has only three serious contenders to replace the departing Samantha Harris: Melissa Rycroft, Brooke Burke and Vanessa Minnillo.

Each of the threesome has a connection to the show. Rycroft and Burke (who won the whole thing) were former contestants. Minnillo, meanwhile, is dating Nick Lachey, whose brother Drew won the disco ball trophy.

"They're only testing those three on camera for now," a production insider tells E! News. "The testing will happen some time next week."

If the casting session doesn't work out, ABC has a backup plan to "rotate past contestants" in the role as backstage interviewer, with Rycroft, Burke, Drew Lachey and Nancy O'Dell among those at the top of the list.

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Whether she snags this gig or not, Melissa Rycroft is already having a good year. Check her out in our Celebrity Weddings gallery!

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The last time Jason Mesnick appeared on national TV with his fiancée and so-called love of his life, things didn't go well. (For her, that is. At least not until Dancing With the Stars came a-calling.)

But despite all odds, the infamous flip-flopping Bachelor is still together with soulmate No. 2, and is tempting both fate and the ratings gods by agreeing to appear with her on ABC one more time.

For their wedding.

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Who knew us pop-culture types would end up having to join the Golf Writers Association of America?

That's what it feels like, anyway, as the Tiger Woods saga continues to unfold amid all the other Hollywood happenings that don't take a special membership (or, according to some of our most critical commenters, schooling of any kind) to cover.

And there were some doozies this week, but first...

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Melissa Rycroft has said "I do." More importantly, so has the guy.

Once one half of the most devastating Bachelor breakup, the 26-year-old Good Morning America correspondent is now part of an official twosome, having swapped vows Saturday night in Mexico with fellow Texan Tye Strickland, according to In Touch Weekly.

"Tye is my best friend in the world, and now he's my partner forever.  We have had such a journey within our relationship, that to finally look at him and see my husband, gives me the calmest, most content feeling in the world," Rycroft told the mag. "I love him so much and am so excited for our forever to begin!"

The bride wore an Alfred Angelo gown. Tony Dovolani, who took Rycroft all the way to the finals on Dancing With the Stars, and Bachelorette Jillian Harris were on the guest list.

Rycroft and Strickland dated on and off for a couple of years before reconnecting after The Bachelor debacle.

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Melissa and Tye just made the cut-off for our Celebrity Weddings 2009 gallery!

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Um, second time's a charm?

Flip-flopping Bachelor Jason Mesnick—whose flaky ways single-handedly launched Melissa Rycroft's career and generated new interest in the ABC franchise—has finally, formally popped the question to his second-banana soulmate, Molly Malaney.

It was only a year ago that Mesnick opted to spend the rest of his life camera time with Rycroft, thus denying Malaney his final rose. But he quickly and publicly dumped the Dancing queen for the castoff. According to People, Mesnick attempted to make amends by proposing in New Zealand, the same place where he initially gave her the boot.

All's well that ends well.

And while the choice of proposal spot may not exactly bring back the most romantic memories for the couple, well, you don't argue with free airfare, folks!

The duo was flown to the idyllic nation as part of a promotion for Tourism NZ, arriving on an Air New Zealand special matchmaking singles' flight and being put up in Auckland and Queenstown to appear in further promotions before heading back home.

You can't put a price on true love. Especially when that price is comped.

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Luckily, it looks like ABC has honed their screening process for future Bachelors. Team WWK breaks down the five reasons newly crowned rose-giver Jake Pavelka may not suck.

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Melissa Rycroft has officially rebounded.

Barely four months after enduring a nationally televised breakup with indecisive Bachelor Jason Mesnick, Rycroft is engaged to fellow Texan Tye Strickland, People reports.

Strickland popped the question Friday at White's Chapel in Southlake, Texas, after which the happy couple celebrated with his and Rycroft's parents—who were apparently onto something when they were reluctant to meet Jason last year—at a nearby restaurant.

Rycroft parlayed her rather heartbreaking Bachelor appearance into a third-place finish on Dancing With the Stars. Easy as ABC, the 26-year-old former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader was then offered a job as a special correspondent on Good Morning America this summer.

And it turns out Strickland was never too far from Rycroft's side throughout.

"We've been really good friends, but the timing was never right," she told Us Weekly of Strickland, who she started dating not long after Mesnick broke off their engagement.

"With all this going on, he's my support system. It's funny how things happen."