Melissa Dancing with the Stars!!

The true winner of The Bachelor, Melissa Rycroft will be joining the Dancing with the Stars confirms Access Hollywood. The 25-year-old former Dallas Cowboy cheerleader is going to be taking over for the Nancy O’Dell who injured her knee during practice for the show. Melissa will team up with dance pro Tony Dovolani.

Singer Jewel has also had to leave the show due to injury and will be replaced by Girls Next Door star Holly Madison.

Dancing with the Stars premieres tomorrow night on ABC.


Jilted Bachelor finalist, Melissa Rycroft will reportedly get a chance to dance her troubles away as a last minute fill-in on Dancing With the Stars. Rycroft, 25, is to fill the slot vacated by Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell, who had to withdraw from the competition on March 5 due to a knee injury, along with Jewel Kilcher. Girl Next Door Holly Madison is believed to be taking over for singer Jewel. Rycroft has gotten back on her feet quickly after “Bachelor” Jason Mesnick, had a change of heart and reunited with runner-up Molly Malaney. She recently told Ellen DeGeneres she has a new beau, who she said she’s known for two years, and apparently turned to after her let down.

Published 96 minutes ago by Brill Bundy at From Inside the Box

Melissa_thebachelor_s13_240 If you thought last week's media blitz was the last you'd heard about The Bachelor until the inevitable Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney break up story in roughly six month, you were wrong. ABC will announce who will replace injured celebrities Jewel and Nancy O'Dell tomorrow during the season premiere of Dancing With the Stars , but People magazine is reporting that none other than Melissa Rycroft will be taking over O'Dell's spot. In case you missed it, Rycroft was the woman Mesnick first chose and proposed to in ...