Pictured here: Leland Melvin (NASA Astronaut and the Agency's Associate Administrator for Education) with his two dogs, Jake and Scout (Adorable Assistants to NASA's Associate Administrator for Education).

Like we couldn't see this coming from a romantic sightseeing helicopter ride a mile away. The Bachelor/ette, that cringeworthy franchise where boring people in rented formalwear get drunk on white wine and use the phrases "this journey" and "that connection" irritatingly often, has cycled through 23 seasons of love.…

• Jon Gosselin attempted to make peace with Kate Gosselin at a divorce arbitration hearing yesterday by bringing roses to the courtroom. Kate turned them down, "but in the end it all came together and concluded on a happy note." [People]

• Heidi Klum's new coffee table book, Rankin's Heidilicious , is "very naughty." Who doesn't want nudity with their coffee? Oh, wait, everyone? [ElleUK]
• American Apparel brings its sleaze to England. England doesn't like it. [The Street]

• Nicolas Ghesquière picked the intolerably cool Charlotte Gainsbourg to advertise Balenciaga's perfume. Ghesquière calls his friend "one of the most inspiring girls in the world." Gainsbourg said, "I was secretly hoping to be the face of Nicolas' first perfume." [WWD]