Bless you, reality TV shows. Partly for taking ordinary situations and turning the heat up to 11 on them. And partly for taking me from a calm, collected, generally ~heaps chill dude~ and turning me into a screaming lunatic, the likes of which I previously only thought were possible whilst watching sport.
We’re a week into the inaugural gender-swapped edition of The Bachelorette Australia – and seriously, if you missed last weeks episodes, you missed a hell of a thing which you can catch up on RIGHT NOW VIA THIS MAGNIFICENT PROFANITY-LADEN RECAP – and already the line between reality and fantasy is well blurry.
The big story to come out of last week – other than the swift and utterly spectacular binning of David the “International Model” – was Michael‘s claims of Olympic and international representation for Australia in the field of soccer.
Which, as it turns out, is not entirely accurate.
So whilst his initial pitch to the beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful musk ox that is Sam Frost included the line “The highlight of my career was playing for Australia and the Socceroos and also the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000,” the reality of that reality TV pearler is that he was only ever an unused substitute during the Olympics, and represented Australia three times in the Youth Squad.
Furthermore, as far as being a “professional” footballer goes, Michael did achieve a modicum of success for Marconi FC in the old National Soccer League, since the national competition got streamlined into the rampantly successful A-League, he’s only played a total of 6 top-line games. All for the New Zealand Knights. A team which does not exist anymore.
As it turns out, Michael’s carved himself out a pretty solid career in Real Estate since the ole’ footballing career kind of went down the tubes.
He founded OneHome Real Estate six years ago, and remains its principal. After starting the business as a sole operator, he’s managed to grow it into a busy office with 12 staff on the payroll. WHICH IS A PERFECTLY FINE CAREER AND AN ACTUAL IMPRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT WHY WOULD YOU HIDE BEHIND A SOCCER CAREER THAT DOESN’T EXIST IT MAKES NO SENSE.
People in Brisbane with an eye for real estate would have spotted this ruse practically instantly – seriously, why were you holding out on us like that? – and it makes the production’s claims of “Professional Footballer” seem all the more baffling.
Still, if it means that ultimately the International Model – he models internationally – got all flustered and threatened over a Real Estate agent to the point where his head exploded on national TV, then I am absolutely all for it.
via Domain.com.au.
