Last month, it was reported that the producers of Ten’s The Bachelor went as far as to employ members of the Indonesian military to keep prying paparazzi eyes away from the all-important final rose ceremony, which was shot in Bali.
Though The Bachie went to pretty extreme lengths to keep the finale under wraps, at least one photographer discovered the outcome, the man in question reportedly approaching host Osher Gunsberg at Sydney airport and correctly identifying the winner.
Today, it has been reported that paps were likely tipped off to The Bachelor‘s filming location because someone involved in the production messed up the crew’s permits, holding them up on their arrival in Indonesia.
Per The Daily Telegraph, a number of crew members were left “stranded” while the proper paperwork was maintained, and the “fuss” created when they were held up for questioning alerted paparazzi to their presence in Bali.
Last year’s finale was famously spoiled when paparazzi shots of Sam Frost and Sasha Mielczarek were published online just hours before the episode went to air.
Frost, however, is betting that we won’t have a similar situation this year, as the public backlash last time it happened was simply too great. She told Rove and Sam listeners last month:
“No one in the general public wants to know the outcome. We’re not even invested in the show yet … The finale photos are worth too much money for the photographers not to do it … the production company will pay a lot of money to get those shots and so they own the shots so no one can ever see them … that’s probably the likely choice.”
Endemol Shine, will you accept this … blackmail attempt?
Source: Daily Telegraph.
Photo: Instagram.
