Sophie Monk‘s turn on The Bachelorette have proven one vital truth: celebrities are just as inclined to make terrible choices on reality dating shows as the rest of us unwashed chumps. And so she did today, when she sent crowd favourite James packing.
James, the beloved boy who looked like an absolute shoe-in to head right to the very end, has been savagely dumped, left to pick up the table scraps rejected Bachelorette fellas can accrue in the Sydney social scene. Or his own season, maybe. Well have to wait for some Channel Ten focus group testing before that becomes a reality.
Instead, Sophie gave the final rose to the undeniable thirst-target Apollo, who is gifted with the finest fruits of human evolution (and a hilariously sexy name) but is also young and therefore stupid.
According to his exit interview with POPSUGAR, Jimbo had no bloody clue it was coming:
No I didn’t, the conversation in the house with a couple of the boys had been that they could see me being there at the end. That kind of confirmation from them made me feel that, at least through this round, I thought I’d be standing there doing the home visit. I shared a post about it last week because it was just how I was feeling at the time, and how much of a shock it was to me. It was Apollo and I standing there waiting for the rose, and he said to me, “I’m gone, I’m done, it’s me going.” I was like, “Don’t say that, don’t say that.” And she gave him the rose, so we just had this moment just hugging it out. It was really a bit of a shock for everyone.
And folks… the punters are absolutely not happy about this turn of events. If this were the Middle Ages, this would be the equivalent of a season’s worth of poor harvest.
https://twitter.com/jjemmalee93/status/920585901217951744
James if it’s any consolation 90% of my timeline will root you. #BacheloretteAU
— Michael Beveridge (@mickyb273) October 18, 2017
Goodbye sweet, manly James. You lit a fire. In our underpants. #BacheloretteAU pic.twitter.com/hfX5PLcuAY
— Jo Thornely (@jothornely) October 18, 2017
Did she seriously just pick Jarrod over James?????? #BacheloretteAU pic.twitter.com/pFuTOKvUBJ
— Mandy Mands (@Mandarine2010) October 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/gabebonney/status/920586072332972032
JAMES, ON BEHALF OF EVERY WOMAN IN AUSTRALIA, I WILL DATE YOU #thebacheloretteau #BacheloretteAU pic.twitter.com/2djwHoWugI
— Chantelle Rau (@chantellerau) October 18, 2017
Dark days, folks. Dark, dark days.
