CHESSNOID

I am getting many hits looking for this update on my blog. Even though I have given up watching the show after realizing it is fake with pre-determined endings, I wanted to give an update on the couple we knew would eventually break up.  Are these relationships even real, or are they paid to stay together for x amount of months after the show?

People:

Is there something in The Bachelor water?

Just two weeks after Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi announced they were separating, former Bachelorette star Jillian Harris and fiancé Ed Swiderski are taking a break, PEOPLE has learned.

According to a source at ABC, the two “are taking some time apart to re-evaluate their relationship.”

The couple, who got engaged May 2009 on the ABC reality show and settled down together in Swiderski’s one-bedroom Chicago condo in September, had previously discussed having a 2010 wedding.

“It feels more normal than any relationship I’ve ever had,” Harris told PEOPLE three months after the computer software consultant proposed in Hawaii. “When we’re together it’s very real.”

But their engagement hasn’t been without its ups and downs.

In August, they weathered rumors about Swiderski’s alleged infidelity when two women claimed he had been stringing both of them along while filming The Bachelorette.

Harris stood by Swiderski, saying she was “not destroyed” by the allegations