Bachelorette Australia - Season 7 - Brooke Blurton - Media SM - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

So Dramatic's "source" reckons the Ryan/Jamie Lee thing might not get much airtime because TPTB will be concentrating on making Luca the villain but if it does, Jamie Lee's not going to come out of it smelling too fresh if she's going on a date with Brooke one minute and cracking on with Ryan the next, IMO.

Meanwhile DM has an "EXCLUSIVE" about Luca previously dating Charley (Locky's season) and literally no one cares - zero comments, zero shares.    And I can pretty much guarantee it was one or both of them who leaked it, thinking it was going to be some big bombshell.  Desperation is not a good look guys.

Could be either of them TBH, but my moneys on Charley, girl is thirsty with a capital T!

It looks like their plan fell flat on their face.

Not particularly significant anymore but just noting Brooke is finally back in Melbourne.  Wonder where Darvid is...



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Bobette wrote:Not particularly significant anymore but just noting Brooke is finally back in Melbourne.  Wonder where Darvid is...



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QLD still classes VIC as a red zone, so if Brooke is to go up to QLD she'll need to do 14 days quarantine (at 70% around Nov 19). Border fully relaxes at 80% or around Dec 17 ish.

So if the finale (going off 12 eps) is on the 25th, Darvid will have to be in Melb and then they'd either need to stay in Melb for 4 weeks, or do 14 days quarantine together.

I could be wrong on bits and pieces, just a Victorian over here wanting to get up to QLD over the summer

So Brooke moving into new ‘digs’ in Melbourne. Is it a temp (Airbnb?)property or permanent? Strange that a friend unpacked her ? Not sure how a long distance relationship would work ? Would b big call from him to move imo.

Thanks for the local insight @butterflylove

There were reports Darvid was with her in Perth.  Apparently Brooke posted an IG story where she went to see her family and people could be heard in the background saying "nice to meet you Darvid", though someone who saw the story reckons they saw a reflection of her friend Jared in a glass door and they think it was him they were greeting not Darvid as the names sound similar.  Either way the story was taken down as soon as people started commenting about the greeting which does seem suss.  I didn't see it myself.  

@Loulou It does seem unlikely she would move all her stuff into an Air B & B so probably is a new rental and perhaps Darvid is there with her already.  Pretty extreme is he's just up and leave his business but maybe he's not expecting it to be a permanent move...

Bobette wrote:Thanks for the local insight @butterflylove

There were reports Darvid was with her in Perth.  Apparently Brooke posted an IG story where she went to see her family and people could be heard in the background saying "nice to meet you Darvid", though someone who saw the story reckons they saw a reflection of her friend Jared in a glass door and they think it was him they were greeting not Darvid as the names sound similar.  Either way the story was taken down as soon as people started commenting about the greeting which does seem suss.  I didn't see it myself.  

@Loulou It does seem unlikely she would move all her stuff into an Air B & B so probably is a new rental and perhaps Darvid is there with her already.  Pretty extreme is he's just up and leave his business but maybe he's not expecting it to be a permanent move...

I saw this story in Brooke's insta. It wasn't Darvid. It was her friend.

Brooke is going to attend the races on Thursday.

Also more on The Advertiser:

Why TV executives think The Bachelorette still has a chance despite poor ratings
This year’s ratings for The Bachelorette, starring bisexual Brooke Blurton, are the lowest ever, but Channel 10 executives are not despairing yet.

Traditional ratings have nosedived for Ten’s bisexual Bachelorette experiment, but TV executives are pointing to a high uptake of delayed view on demand as evidence their gamble on the format has not failed.

Overnight ratings for the program, which is a world first with a mixed gender cast of males and females vying for the affection of indigenous youth worker Brooke Blurton, have taken up the undesirable mantle of worst on record for the franchise.

The tanking figures have come as a surprise to programming experts who expected star bachelorette Blurton, who has nearly four times the following of previous Bachelor Jimmy Nicholson on Instagram, to entice viewers to the free-to-air show.

However, while traditional ratings are down, streaming is up, leaving TV executives scratching their heads as they try to analyse the demographics behind the shift.
They will be forced to consider whether the traditional family audience that bolsters 10’s reality TV stable has rejected the non-traditional take on the format.

Demographic analysis, which would show exactly which audience has switched off in the traditional timeslot, was not available to the Telegraph, however it is understood industry executives believe some parents are reluctant to sit down as a family to watch the show as they would programs like The Masked Singer.

The first episode that launched last month initially attracted a five city metro audience of 397,000 people but jumped 91 per cent or 362,000 viewers with the addition of BVOD (broadcaster video on demand) numbers that come several days later. The second episode also rose dramatically with the catch-up figures. It came in at 345,000 initially and jumped 96 per cent, or 332,000 viewers.

Ratings have declined over recent years as each season launched. The launch episode of last year’s season of The Bachelorette, fronted by sisters Elly and Becky Miles, came in at 487,000 five city metro viewers and was then an all-time low.

“The Bachelorette is creating a lot of noise and people are talking about it and really engaging with it on different platforms,” Bachelorette executive producer Hilary Innes said.

“Our ‘Social’ and ‘Digital’ platforms are going gangbusters and I’ve never seen so many people take the time to write a note of gratitude and reflect on just how personally important it is to them, that this series was made.”

Blurton will on Thursday appear at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse for Kennedy Oaks Day. When asked about reaction to the series, she bristled and said the “negative naysers do not take the conversation forward”.

Pop culture and reality TV expert Dr Jodi McAlister said: “I think if they didn’t innovate with the format, then it was truly going to go nowhere.”

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Finch wrote:I saw this story in Brooke's insta. It wasn't Darvid.  It was her friend.

OK cool thanks for clarifying

If anyone else was F1 it would have made a handy red herring.

Sorry if this has been discussed but what does it mean when the contestants sm accts are controlled by 3rd party/BN ? Noticed that Darvid latest post not tagged to Bach but other contestants. He is only one beside Luca (1-1) with pic of Brooke. https://www.instagram.com/p/CV1A_1gBqBP/?utm_medium=copy_link
All sm posted posted with 15mins of each other so assuming BN doing it centrally? Didn’t previously contestants had to get approval to post so only difference is that now BN centrally posting? Or is BN creating post as well ? Again sorry if I missed this.

@Loulou There's a 'third party' managing them.