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"The Bachelor": How many contestants find true love on TV?

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(CBS News) Before this season of "The Bachelor" ended Monday,  there were already rumors that whomever California winemaker Ben Flajnik chose, they weren't together now.

On the final episode Flajnik chose model Courtney Robertson over Lindzi Cox and the two already are leading people to believe they are not still together.

Flajnik wouldn't be the first "Bachelor"  whose TV proposal didn't end at the altar. In the show's 16 seasons, only its season 13 bachelor, Jason Mesnick, found his soul mate on a TV. And even then, he called of his engagement with the woman he chose as his fiancee  and proposed  to  the runner up, Molly Malaney.

The show's spinoff "The Bachelorette" has only had one marriage as well with former "Bachelor" contestant Trista Rehn who married Ryan Sutter. The two now have two children together.

They are the lucky few who have been able to find love on reality TV. Others were not so lucky. Out of all the seasons of "The Bachelor," some chose to not even propose at all.

Alex Michel, the first "Bachelor," did not end up proposing to his "winner" Amanda Marsh, but instead they decided to take a chance at a relationship. They broke up after several months.

There were several other "Bachelors" who decided not to propose, but instead to try a relationship with thew winner: season four's Bob Guiney, season five's Jesse Palmer, season seven's Charlie O'Connell, season eight's Travis Lane Stork and season nine's Prince Lorenzo Borghese.

In season 11 Brad Womack changed the game completely and decided to reject both of his finalists.

The engagements  of  the other eight contestants' who did actually propose  all ended before  marriage..

So much  for  finding true  love  on TV.

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