00:00Bachelor alum Melissa Rycroft has been charged with a second DWI just two months after pleading
00:05guilty to the first. The former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader was arrested on suspicion of driving
00:10while intoxicated in Texas on Sunday. According to Tarrant County Jail records viewed by Entertainment
00:16Weekly, Rycroft, 43, was arrested by officers from the Southlake Police Department, the same
00:21agency that booked her for the 2025 offense. Her latest charges include second-degree driving
00:27while intoxicated, driving with a prior conviction or suspension without financial responsibility,
00:33and collision causing damage to a vehicle greater than or equal to $200. Jail records indicate
00:38that Rycroft has not yet posted bail, which was set at $9,000. She is currently in custody
00:44at Tarrant County Correction Center in Fort Worth. As Page Six previously reported, the reality
00:48star was arrested in September 2025 for driving while intoxicated. She was booked into the
00:53local jail where she stayed for eight hours before she posted her $1,000 bond and a promise
00:59to appear in court. Rycroft pleaded guilty to the driving while intoxicated charge in August,
01:04agreeing to a 20-month probation sentence and avoiding 280 days in jail per Entertainment Weekly.
01:10She was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and additional court fees, including a trauma fine,
01:15bringing her total to $2,087. Rycroft rose to fame while competing for the final rose on Jason
01:22Mesnick's season of The Bachelor in 2009. She became engaged to Mesnick in the season 13 finale
01:28episode, but during the After the Final Rose special, he called off the engagement to be with
01:33runner-up Molly Mullaney. After the heartbreak, she went on to star on season 8 of ABC's Dancing
01:38with the Stars, where she finished in third place with her partner Tony Dovolani. Rycroft returned with
01:44Dovolani for season 15's All-Stars cast in 2012 and took home the Mirrorball trophy, marking
01:50Dovolani's first win after 14 seasons. As for her love life, she went on to reunite with and marry
01:56her ex, Ty Strickland, in December 2020, and they share three children together.
