Bachelor Australia - Season 10 - Felix - Jed - Thomas - Media SM - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

Bobette wrote:Right on schedule here we have Angie Kent getting her knickers in a bunch about the choice of leads, despite no confirmation that these guys are exclusively heterosexual.  

Any of them could be bi or gender fluid and we haven't seen any photos of Jed on dates (which strikes me as suspicious) so it's presumptuous to assume he'll be only dating girls IMO.

But hey Angie don't let that stop you, just go right ahead and shoot your mouth off, claiming to speak for the queer community despite still not having been with a woman.  



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TVTonight wrote:Paramount has a strict “no diversity, no commission” rule across its productions -but there is a wider interpretation of this which extends to cast and crew as a whole.

Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer, Paramount Australia and New Zealand, Beverley McGarvey told TV Tonight, “Diversity looks at many things, and even to cast the way that it’s been cast, those guys don’t necessarily all print like your typical Bachelor of years gone by. There’s a whole significant portion of that cast still to come, which will make people probably slightly rethink their position.

“It’s about cast and crew in representation and we do feel that it matters, and we’ve demonstrated that clearly with all of our casting choices.

“This year, we were trying to do something different with Bachelor, even just in terms of the age range, which allows us to cast different types of women as well.

“We’re just going to stay quiet on that and then once people see the entire cast, then they will see that the entire cast is very representative of the Australian population.”

There’s a whole significant portion of that cast still to come, which will make people probably slightly rethink their position

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butterflylove wrote:SD's source didn't drop any hints that it was Todd and he wasn't alluded too, but ‍ fishy if it wasn't.

From what I can gather, does SD even seem aware of Todd? I only listened to her a small bit during MAFS as it was clear she was getting early access to episodes. Only from what I can tell from the stuff about her posted here, she doesn't seem terribly aware of him or seem to be following him much. Was she into the Bachelor back when Ali's season was on?

Bobette wrote:@leavers SD doesn't seem to be aware of much TBH.  She relies on informants spoon feeding her info and doesn't seem to engage much research or critical thought.  She's presented contradictory spoilers on the same day before and it doesn't seem to have registered.  

Case in point: she did actually mention Todd as a contender a while back, but doesn't seem to have connected the fact that she's now also reported there was fourth bachelor in Perth.  Seems likely to be Todd and even if not the coincidence would seem worth addressing?

Bobette wrote:SD wrong again with the location then - the location she leaked looked very old fashioned and why choose to film on the Gold Coast and not be near the beach?!  It defeats the whole point of being there.  This one looks much more like I expected - shades of Love Island. Nice find @butterflylove

This year’s Bachelor is shaking things up for the format with three single men on the Gold Coast.

But it won’t be the only change.

TV Tonight understands there won’t be the traditional parade of girls stepping out of a limousine onto a red carpet either.

In fact it could be that the women have already met their men have to be invited to the new-look Bachelor pad.

“There’s certainly a mechanic in the early episodes that’s different to what we’ve done before, [as] to how the girls come into the mansion,” said Daniel Monaghan, Senior Vice President, Content and Programming, Paramount ANZ.

“We still have that traditional moment of a cocktail party. It’s just now there are three men and a lot more women in that in that cocktail party.

“There is a ‘mechanic’ initially, in that first episode to get the women in. But in that first episode, they still arrive into the mansion, the new Gold Coast pad.”