Oh FFS.
Remember how last year, Daily Mail Australia spoiled the winner of ‘The Bachelorette’ by publishing long lens shots of Sam Frost and winner Sacha Mielczarek just hours before the finale?
Looks like we’re in for a repeater.
Filming for the upcoming season of ‘The Bachelor‘ – the one starring Richie Strahan – wrapped up in Bali over the weekend, and despite rumours that producers had enlisted the help of the Indonesian military to prevent the paparazzi from snapping pics, it looks like they were unsuccessful.
Richie, host Osher Günsberg, and three finalists flew on separate planes to Bali, took a special airport exit, and were chauffeured to a security- (and possibly Indonesian Independent Army-) guarded hotel, but paparazzi managed to track them down and get the money shot anyway.
“It’s just so disappointing,” said last year’s Bachelorette + human sunshine Sam on Rove & Sam this morning. “No one in the general public wants to know the outcome. We’re not even invested in the show yet.”
She did, however, concede that “the finale photos are worth too much money for the photographers not to do it,” with a local pap telling the Daily Telegraph that the first shots of Richie and a girl on a date in Sydney‘s northern beaches went for $25,000.
However – if we’re lucky, and if Sam’s theory is correct, and if the show’s producers have deep pockets – we may not see any spoilers this season at all.
“If the publications don’t want them, or don’t want to spoil it for their audience, well guess what, there is a certain company that would want to shut that shing down,” said Sam – and yes, she really did say ‘shing’. “The production company. They would pay a lot of money to get those shots, so they own the shots, so no one can ever see them. I’ve got absolutely no idea, but I think that’s the likely choice.”
Then again, maybe said paparazzi are simply waiting for the audience’s emotional investment to jack up the price of said photos.
So we may get spoilers, we may not. Either way, if anyone can sort our a Bachelor spoiler blocker Chrome extension before the show starts (date tbd), that’d be just swell.
Source: Daily Telegraph / 2Day FM.
Photo: Instagram / Richie Strahan.
