Now that 82-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch is back on the market, all anyone is concerned about is who his next young thang will be. At least that's all anyone who was sitting at one table in a Los Angeles restaurant that New York Times reporter Brooks Barnes found himself next to recently.

Another season of The Bachelorette has come and gone. Exhale. But last night's heartbreaking/heartwarming extravaganza nailed all the necessary points in the franchise's finale routine.

"All women have that no-sex-on-the-first-date rule, and all women want a reason to break it," writes bachelor blogger and spokesperson for all women Jozen Cummings. God, this "men talking for women" crap again? I'm bored already.

Sometimes a crap Craigslist ad drips with douchery aforethought — and sometimes the dude responsible just seems authentically, painfully clueless. The following missive from a currently wife-less "professional" falls into the latter camp.

ABC premiered their new series The Bachelor Pad last night, and it was all kinds of crazy. It had everything they promised - tears, fights, hookups, guitars - with one key difference.

The Bachelorette is slowly eating my brain. I blame Frank. And Chris. And Roberto and all the other rejected, Disney prince-esque castoffs. Because they have seduced me with their unrealistic, romcom ways.

Why is everyone The Bachelor and The Bachelorette white? It's a question that needs to be both asked and answered.

In Barwaan Kala, India, known as the "village of unmarried people," 121 bachelors are working to build a 6km road, because they say their remote location is preventing them from getting married.