Hoooo boy. I mean, we all know reality shows aren’t just straight reality. That’s obvious – you can’t make tv drama without a bit of manipulation, right?
You know, like in Love Island where they record convo’s between contestants, and play them back to the contestants that were being bitched about, and holy lord when is that show back it’s the fucking best (if you haven’t watched it – you’re missing out).
But there’s that kind of set-up manipulation, and then there’s downright bullshit. And if these allegations are true, friends, then everything we thought was pure and true on The Bachelor has been a LIE. A LIE THIS WHOLE TIME.
Basically – on Wednesday night’s episode some beady-eyed viewers noticed Matty J wearing an earpiece. I know, I know – shock-horror, a guy who is not a professional host has to wear an earpiece on a show that involves him reading at least some lines. The earpiece. Not a shocker. Leave the poor guy alone for a sec, ok?
Except that scenario led to everyone’s favourite (erm…) tabloid The Daily Mail getting some intel from what they call a “Bachelor insider” on how fabricated the show actually is. If this ~insider~ is to be believed – it’s pretty much entirely bullshit.
Firstly, Matty apparently has that earpiece in all the damn time. It was just a mistake that we saw it.
‘The girls would sit down and Matty would sit on the non-camera side. That’s how he made sure the earpiece wasn’t seen on camera,’ the insider said. “There was one time where he requested to switch positions with a contestant during the cocktail party so that he could listen to the producers speaking to him in his earpiece.”
Hmmm…. again – earpiece, not too much of a thing. But then it gets juicy.
“His lines are completely staged. During the cocktail party, he would ask questions that were clearly based on things the girls had said during a private interview with producers,” they continued. “That’s how he knew all the probing questions that he needed to ask the girls.”
But IMO, this is the worst bit. The part that says “romance is dead, love is a sterile construct”.
“On the red carpet he was prompted every single time to reach out and hold the girls hands. He did it with every girl. It wasn’t natural or organic.”
Apparently Network Ten did give a statement to The Daily Mail saying that Matty J “never wears an earpiece during a cocktail party or dates”, so these allegations really go against that. Hrmmm…
Look. Like I said before, we can’t be that surprised that a big-production show like The Bachelor requires a dude who used to be a regular, untrained pleb like us to have some lines fed to him and an earpiece. But if the reports that he was literally instructed to hold all the girls hands are true, what else has been absolute shit? What about all these kisses? The romantic arm-round-the-shoulders?
I can’t have my belief in true love CRUSHED LIKE THIS NETWORK TEN. FIX. THIS.
