In a shock, Jake picks Viena!  WOW.  And Ali is the new Bachelorette!

Ali Fedotowsky has been named the star of the new season of The Bachelorette.

The announcement was made during Monday night’s Bachelor finale.

“I’m so excited!” she told host Chris Harrison. “I am so thrilled and honored and grateful. I just can’t believe it.”

Told that America has fallen for her, she replied, “I feel so blessed.”

When she was first approached to do the show, she said she felt “scared. I realize I am not going to let my fear dictate my life anymore. I want to fall in love, have kids, all of that. I am not going to make the same mistake I made before.”

The 25-year-old Fedotowsky — a San Francisco-based advertising accounts manager for Facebook — was one of Bachelor Jake Pavelka’s frontrunners until she abruptly left the show to save her job.

On the recent Women Tell All special, she expressed regret for her decision.

“If I could go back and do it differently, I would,” she said, adding: “On my death bed, I don’t want to look back and say I didn’t love enough … If I knew what I know now, would I chose love over work? Yes.”

Last night on the season premiere of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love, Jake Pavelka met 25 women and performed his first rose ceremony. He was helped by Bachelorette couple Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski in determining which 15 women to keep.

After a cocktail party that included playing football, a flight attendant costume, a woman wearing an engagement ring from a fake fiancé and another woman getting the first kiss, Pavekla performed the first rose ceremony of the season.

The 15 women who received roses are: Kathryn, Michelle, Ella, Elizabeth, Ali, Vienna, Christina, Gia, Ashley, Rozlyn, Jessie, Corrie, Valisha, Ashleigh and Tenley.

Next week on The Bachelor, the first set of dates will begin and elimination will be held.