The first Bachelorette cocktail party is always a blur of names, faces, neckties and awkward introductions, but inevitably, a few prime pieces of man-meat always stand out from the pack.

Here we go again. Later in the summer, we‘ll be treated to the Olympics of athleticism. Tonight, we once again begin a slightly less ancient and much less honorable tradition -- the Olympics of televised dating.

The Bachelorette premieres Monday, May 14, and host Chris Harrison joined members of the media on a conference call yesterday to discuss how Emily Maynard‘s journey will be "drastically different" from past seasons.

If you‘ve missed our previous spoiler posts, please refresh yourself with this archive: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five.

Nashville football players Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson are leading a class-action lawsuit against ABC‘s The Bachelor franchise, claiming that the show‘s casting process, which has led to zero stars of color amongst its ten years and 23 seasons on the air, constitutes racial discrimination.

Since James Brown is dead, I think someone should officially name Ryan Seacrest the Hardest Working Man in Show Business.

Previously in Bachelorette season 8 spoilers: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.This week, ABC released 14 official photos of Bachelorette Emily Maynard looking lovely and love-hungry, ready and willing to hand out a bunch of roses to her handsome suitors.

Previously: Spoilers Part One, Spoilers Part Two.OK, you guys. I went to see Titanic 3D last night (WITHHOLD JUDGMENT PLEASE, my inner middle schooler can‘t take it) and in the midst of regretting my $15 rental of a pair of plastic transition lenses so that I could see Billy Zane‘s Flajnik-like center part in three dimensions, something occurred to me that probably already occurred to many of you as you watched Emily, Ali and Ashley go see Titanic 3D in the theater in that special Bachelorette teaser: Uhhhhhhh, didn‘t Emily already lose the love of her life in a tragic transportation accident?

ABC is going to have a very real summer with eight reality shows on its schedule, along with season 3 of the Canadian import Rookie Blue.

See photos of Bachelor stars Flajnik and Robertson, former Bachelorettes Ali Fedotowsky, Deanna Pappas and Ashley Hebert, Real Housewives stars Teresa Giudice, Gretchen Rossi and Kyle Richards and more at the Hollywood reality show bash.