Our gal, the young and ever so vulnerable Cass Wood, was cruelly sent home from The Bachelor at last night’s rose ceremony, and we have never felt so bereft in our entire lives. No hyperbole here, don’t even start.
The saddest part? Wood told PEDESTRIAN.TV she didn’t see it coming, until that deeply uncomfortable and pretty inappropriate confrontation with Brittany Hockley at the cocktail party:
I just really wasn’t expecting it because hometowns went so well, and there just was no indication that that was going to happen. And then when I got back to the mansion and Britt confronted me I was like, ‘Okay, yep, I reckon I might be going home now.’ It definitely was very hard.
She tells us that she needed to decide from the first moment she saw him from the limo in episode one how she would handle the fact that the Badgelor, Nick Cummins, is someone she used to date in the real world, and how she would approach the subject with the other women vying for his heart.
I told the girls there was past history, I told them that there was feelings for Nick before going into the mansion, and I just didn’t say that we had gone on dates or we had kissed because I just didn’t want to hurt any of the other girls, or make them feel uncomfortable, or make Nick feel uncomfortable as well. I left out those few details.
I did feel guilty about it but I always wanted to explain to my two besties – Soph and Britt – about it, but just not in that environment and situation, and unfortunately, it all blew up.
Still, she doesn’t begrudge Hockley for demanding an explanation: “I completely understand where she was coming from, she had every right to ask me the truth because I was her best friend. She deserved to know the truth.”
Wood says she had no idea she was going to be matched up with someone she’d previously dated. She was in the mansion “to find someone, I wanted to fall in love and find that person to hopefully spend the rest of my life with“.
I had been in serious long-term relationships, which were good like three-year sorta relationships, and then I was single for about a year-and-a-half, and I had never used Tinder or Bumble or anything like that.
I went into the audition, which my best friend told me I should do, and I said to the executive producer, ‘Look like, I’m hoping by coming on here it’s gonna cull out people, and you’re gonna be really selective, and you’re gonna find this guy that’s really, really suitable for me. We’re gonna have so much in common.’
Technically it should be this perfect match, that’s why I went on there and said ‘Don’t choose me if you don’t think we’re gonna be matched up.’ And I think they did a good job.
So it was a real shock for Wood to find out the who the Bachelor was:
I was completely shocked. Out of all the guys they could’ve chosen, and out of all of the girls that they could’ve picked, they chose us two, and it’s just crazy that we were both there. I was really happy to find out it was him because he was definitely someone that I could see myself with.
Wood is handling her television dumping with grace, saying that she and Cummins “will remain friends“: “We live in the same area and stuff, I feel like we’re bound to bump into each other in the future. He could end up with one of my best friends anyway. I’m not someone to hold a grudge and we will remain friends.”
So, if not her, who does Woods reckon Cummins ends up with? “I have my bets on Sophie and Britt because they’re like sisters to me, and I just knew how genuine they were, and I think they had really good connections with him.”
Ultimately Wood doesn’t subscribe to the rumblings that Honey Badger and his Bachelor bae have already split: “I think there’s just a lot of fake news, creating stories, and I truly believe he is with the winner that he chose.”
She hasn’t unequivocally ruled out a turn on Bachelor in Paradise, because she is still looking for love. But for now, Wood is “keeping really positive“, playing rugby, surfing, hanging out with her friends: “I’ll just take it how it comes and see what happens.”
