‘The Bachelor Australia: Season 3‘ is the Hotel California of Australian reality TV: you can stop watching, but the drama will never leave.
This is demonstrably a good thing, because we all love drama when it doesn’t affect us. That probably makes us hypocrites, but who TF cares. Why do you think reality television works? (Aside from low costs and an endless stream of hopefuls, obviously.) ‘Cause we get to see the absolute worst of human emotion played out by total strangers, but strangers whom we’re emotionally invested in.
The latest drama from this season is noted villain (and my personal queen) Keira Macguire calling out the season’s most iconic couple Megan Leto Marx & Tiffany Scanlon for faking their Instagram-saturated relationship. (Soz, Alex & Richie.)
She straight-up called their ~pure and most aesthetic~ love one giant publicity stunt during an Instagram live video, according to Mamamia.
“Don’t be fooled,” Keira warned after one fan brought up Megan & Tiffany, and when pressed, added: “Yes, they are faking their relationship.”
There’s absolutely no doubt that the pair are milking their relationship for all the money it’s worth (which is quite a lot, probably). Posting ten bikini shots per day, occasionally speaking up about LGBTQIA rights, and setting up a joint Facebook page is wont to do that.
And it certainly looks like the pair are making bank on those sweet sponsored Instagram posts, even if they’re not tagged as such.
But faking an entire relationship is a big call. Perhaps Keira is telling the truth Australia needs to hear – or perhaps she is simply offering her version of reality that we all fell in love/loathe with in 2016.
