Long-distance engagement

Radnor, Pa. The Bachelor apparently will stay that way a little longer.

Alex Michel chose Amanda Marsh from among 25 contestants on ABC’s reality dating show “The Bachelor” last spring, but Marsh said Michel hasn’t exactly been courting her.

On more than one occasion, “he told me to get a cab to meet him at events,” Marsh, 23, told TV Guide for its Aug. 17 issue.

Michel once said he was “too busy” to pick her up at the airport, Marsh said. He didn’t help her find an apartment, and he reneged on his offer to drive her from Kansas to Los Angeles, Marsh said.

Marsh, an event planner, is from Gardner, Kan.

“I was obviously not a priority of his, so he was not going to be a priority of mine,” said Marsh, who has decided to stay in Kansas and is training to be a radio-station disc jockey.

For his part, the 32-year-old Michel, a former San Francisco management consultant, said Marsh’s radio job “sounds cool” and it wouldn’t be “loving” of him to dissuade her from it.

Hoping for a breakthrough

Birmingham, Ala. Former Miss America Heather Whitestone McCallum, saying she needed to hear her children talk, has undergone surgery that’s expected to allow her to detect whispers.

McCallum, the first deaf woman to win the pageant in 1995, returned Thursday to her Atlanta home after receiving a cochlear implant in her right ear.

The Pelham native said she decided to have the operation when her 2-year-old son, John fell in her back yard.

“I couldn’t hear him crying,” McCallum, now a 29-year-old wife and mother of two, told The Birmingham News. “Not being there for him really scared me.”

Hit with a warrant

Los Angeles Motley Crue’s Vince Neil is wanted on a misdemeanor battery warrant for allegedly punching a record producer outside a West Hollywood nightclub last April.

A warrant for Neil’s arrest was issued Wednesday, district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said. If convicted, the heavy metal band’s lead singer could face a maximum of six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.

Michael Schuman said he was standing outside the Rainbow Room nightclub just after midnight on April 28 when Neil arrived in a red Rolls-Royce sedan, got out and punched him in the face.

Tribute to Elvis

Portland, Maine Twenty-five years ago this month, the Cumberland County Civic Center was sold out for back-to-back performances by the king of rock ‘n’ roll.

But Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, and more than 17,000 heartbroken fans were left holding tickets to the Aug. 17 and Aug. 18 concerts.

In observance of the 25th anniversary of Presley’s death, the Civic Center will present a two-hour musical tribute, “The Concert That Never Happened,” on Aug. 17, featuring Elvis impersonator Jack Smink.

The Florida-based Smink, who refers to himself as a tribute artist, wants his Aug. 17 show to duplicate as closely as possible the one Presley would have presented.