As expected, Jason Mesnick proposed to a finalist on the season finale of The Bachelor. Then, he went off-script by unceremoniously breaking up with fiancee Melissa Rycroft and romancing runner-up Molly Malaney.
And that, says a fellow Bachelor Matt Grant, was not smart.
"This guy kind of committed suicide," Grant told PEOPLE at The 23rd Genesis Awards in Beverly Hills Saturday. "He's a nice man. I've met him quite a few times. But I think he should have gone about it differently."
The world is still watching as Mesnick and Malaney continue their courtship while the jilted Rycroft struts her stuff on Dancing with the Stars, keeping an eye on how each of the three fares out of the eye of The Bachelor's cameras.
Grant, however, does give Mesnick credit for facing up to his mistake early on. "Ultimately, he had the guts to say, 'I screwed up.'"
Grant -- who says he's still dating his publicist Sarah Robarts -- admits he was lucky in his role on The Bachelor: London Calling. "I had an easy ride," he says. "I had a great group of women; we all just got on fairly well."
As the show's first British Bachelor, Grant proposed to Shayne Dahl Lamas but their engagement ended in July of last year. -- Sara HammelABC
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