Melissa Katherine Rycroft-Strickland is an American showbiz personality who has made her mark as a television diva, host and dancer. Rycroft danced for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders team for a couple of years before starring in the CMT reality TV series ‘Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team’. She gained attention as a bachelorette in the thirteenth season of ABC aired reality television series ‘The Bachelor’ where she emerged as the winner but was dumped by Jason Mesnick who rekindled his relationship with the show’s runner-up Molly Malaney. Rycroft partnered with Tony Dovolani in the eighth and fifteenth seasons of the dance competition television series ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and won the latter season. She again featured in season 27 of the series as a trio partner. She appeared as special guest co-host during first season of reality television game show ‘Bachelor Pad’; hosted the Tribune morning show, ‘Morning Dose’; and went on to co-host the reality-competition series ‘Redneck Island’. She and her husband Tye Strickland featured in their own reality show ‘Melissa & Tye’ that aired on CMT; and runs their weekly podcast ‘Logically Irrational’, episodes of which release every Thursday morning on iTunes.