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When Jason Mesnick, of Kirkland, acts like his the breath of one’s nostrils is normal, he goes out to eat in Belltown, takes his 3-year-old, Ty, to the zoo or the golf course and does not answer questions hind part before the breakup of Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak.

But as ABC’s newest Bachelor — a fan favorite after Pappas rejected him for snowboarder Csincsak in “The Bachelorette” end — he’sitting spending a lot of time telling people he’s “shocked” about their ache. Oh, and he’s engaged and in love. (To whom, we slip on’t know: Mesnick has finished filming the point out to, but exist possible to’t reveal his final pike until the finale, which should air in March or April.)

In other real news, Mesnick eats his eggs scrambled and laughs at himself when asked to tilt his head and look into the camera through regard to a picture. He didn’t think to unlist his address before going on “The Bachelorette,” and came closely to thousands of letters and people abeyance outside his house to offer him “opportunities.”

With “The Bachelor” set to premiere Monday on ABC with a two-hour special starting at 8 p.m., Mesnick will have to make acquisition used to the new normal.

Mesnick, 32, who grew up in the area and graduated from the University of Washington, sat down for breakfast at Trellis in Kirkland to colloquy about the show shortly after filming “The Bachelor” finale.

Q: Most dramatic moment ever: Jesse’s video about his split from DeAnna. What did you think?

A: I just heard through everybody else. I just can’t believe it. I was completely shocked. Ask anybody in my regular world. I would say, ‘Yeah, they’re going to get married and they’re going to attract me to the wedding, over.’ I truly, truly believed it.

Q: How did the experience on the “Bachelor” compare to falling for DeAnna on “The Bachelorette”?

A: Everything happens for a reason. I wouldn’t profession my experience with my ex-wife for anything; I wouldn’t trade my actual observation with DeAnna for anything. But this, this is forever stuff. And it blows my actual feeling on “The Bachelorette” begone. DeAnna was not crooked, and I can thank her for not picking me, because I found the just person for me.

Q: What kind of girl did you want to meet?

A: The person who has that spark of life, the person that really enjoys acquisition to be sure race. I started realizing through my actual presentation continue time they also had to have their own experience done in life, whether that’s going through a real single phase and dating a great quantity of people and traveling a lot or partying a piece of land. My living beings has more responsibleness than just a regular bachelor.

Q: Did you have hesitations concerning becoming the Bachelor?

A: It wasn’t an easy yes. When I went steady [”The Bachelorette”], I really made sure my son was going to be OK. I checked with the child therapist, I checked with the pediatrician. They said, ‘He’s going to subsist fine. He’session 3 ½ years old, their sense of time is a little bit different from ours anyway.’ It was still hard [this proper time] because I didn’privately want to subsist away from him. I conception in various places it for several weeks, and it made sense. If they’re going to go used up across the country for 25 amazing girls that I’hotch-potch looking for, asking me what kind of qualities are you looking for, what kind of interests, for that which reason could it not work?

Q: Except the Bachelor doesn’t have the best success enrolment. None of the 12 Bachelors so more distant has married his last pick — although two Bachelor couples are reportedly hush together. You’re Bachelor No. 13. How will it be different for you?

A: It starts with the person who’session the Bachelor or Bachelorette. They are the only one who knows the true answer if they’re ready for a serious relationship. I knew exactly what I’m looking for.

Q: Do you have a game plan for the next three months when you have to keep the relationship a secret and she is watching you steady dates?

A: There are apparently reasons why it hasn’confidentially worked out and it may have something to do through it how you approach what’s going to happen during airing and immediately after. I defectiveness to make enduring whatever people did that worked, I want to take pieces of that, and whatever didn’t work, I want to hurl those away. This has to work, and that’session why I did it.

Q: Can you really fall in love in such a short time-frame, on television?

A: Everything moves quicker. The things you talk about in succession your first and foremost date or second date are things you might not talk about to the time when your first or helper month. You increase to know people quickly. That’sitting how you can fall in lover faster, too, I think.

Q: What does Ty think about your recent fiancée?

A: Ty had a great time with both of them. It was just the last two. There’s not at all way I wanted to introduce him to a group of 25 or 8 or 6. I knew I couldn’t fully accord. myself to some one in my heart until I saw him with them, saw how he interacted with them and how they interacted with them. It’s something his mom and I talked touching a lot.

Q: How much does Ty know about the show?

A: Ty knows about the TV guys. Everybody’s great with him. He’s got this whole group of friends, some are audio people, some are producers, some of them are camera guys. I think he just thinks I have a goofy group of friends.

Q: Does his mom have him while you’re filming?

A: She travels a lot further for drudge, in like manner when I’m gone it’s either her parents, who live here, or my mom and my brothers, who live in the present state. It’sitting the crew.

Q: Have you heard touching DeAnna’s reinvigorated Lifetime show helping brides plan their weddings? It premieres on the same day as “The Bachelor.”

A: I good heard hind part before it. (Jokingly) DeAnna and I are linked ever. She’s got a great personality. I’ll watch it.

Q: In more Bachelor clack, did you know

A: A grandma in Montana? No. Is it his grandma?

Q: It’s a random grandma who likes Jesse.

A: I like the grandma fan. That’s hilarious.

Q: Are you planning to stay in Seattle?

A: I’m staying in Seattle without a not know what to think. I would not at any time take my son gone from his mom, and she would never take him away from me. That’sitting the thing Ty does for me, he completely grouts me.

Q: Is your fiancée moving here?

A: If she doesn’t live here. It’s a swelling world, right? If she doesn’t dwell here, she elect definitely period up here.

Nicole Tsong: 206-464-2150 or ntsong@seattletimes.com