REALITY CHECK

J.P. & ASHLEY'S MAINE EVENT. No, not their wedding -- Roslyn native J.P. Rosenbaum and last season's "Bachelorette" star Ashley Hebert will start planning for that in the new year, Rosenbaum tells Newsday. In the meantime they're spending their first holiday season together as an engaged couple.

"This was Ashley's last week of dental school," Rosenbaum says. "She finished up Wednesday. We spent Thanksgiving with my family. My mom and dad were smiling ear-to-ear to have us there along with my brother and his girlfriend."

Christmas was being spent with Hebert's folks in Madawaska, Maine. As for New Year's Eve, "We're going to be back in New York," Rosenbaum says. "There's a slight chance of Miami, since my brother is down there."

PREMIERES. "Storm Chasers" returns for season five on Discovery, Monday at 8 . . . moms with lots of kids bond on WE's new "Texas Multi Mamas," Tuesday at 8 p.m. . . . Opposite it on Discovery, blue-collar workers compete in "Best in the Business" . . . The same night at 10 on TLC, shoppers compete on the new "Extreme Couponing All-Stars" . . . Thursday, TLC gives us "New York Ink" season two at 9 p.m. and an Alaskan fishing family in the new "Hook, Line & Sisters" at 10 . . . Discovery opposite the latter gives us a clan living off the grid in "Alaska: The Last Frontier" . . . Friday at 10 p.m., "Confessions: Animal Hoarding" returns for season three on Animal Planet and "Four Weddings" for season three on TLC, which debuts "Strange Sex" season two Saturday at 8 p.m. . . . Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri recruit ostensible celebrities for culinary competition on the new "Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off," Sunday at 9 p.m.

RECAPS. Melanie Amaro won "The X Factor," Brian Burkhardt "Project Accessory," and Abdi Farah "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" . . . Heather Terhune is off "Top Chef: Texas."