Honestly, we’ve never been so excited for a season of The Bachelorette. Sophie Monk making a bunch of dudes prove their love for her by jumping off a cliff into water like over-chiseled lemmings? Heaven. (And this actually happened. Sam Frost‘s year. We are not joking.)
But on top of all of that, it looks like things have worked out for Sophie. The celeb confirmed to Stellar Magazine that she found love on the show, and while she can’t reveal much, she hopes it’s for keeps.
“You never know, but my gut is saying this is amazing,” she said.
Is it really, really weird if we kind of hope it’s Apollo the magician?
Honestly, it’s hard not to fall in love with her and only want good things for her after hearing her talk about her past experiences in fame-hungry LA.
“They’d [potential suiters] ring my agent for a date. I’d tick every box, but they weren’t looking at me. The idea of me and the package worked with their brand – that’s what it felt like. They are straight into it, too. That’s when you know it’s scary. They’re like, ‘I love you,’ within a week, and I’m like… ‘God!’”
She even says she only started dating former fiancé Benji Madden (from Good Charlotte) after they met at a restaurant and he started leaving flowers at her door every day until they went out. “I wasn’t really [interested at first], then he was just so sweet. It lasted nearly two years. He’s an amazing person. I just didn’t feel ready to get married at that point. I wanted to achieve a bit more.”
She says she had to be a “bit selfish” on The Bachelorette, which we suppose you would have to be, when faced with an alarming number of suitors and there’s only one of you.
“In a relationship, I am very generous, and non confrontational. I end up getting controlled, walked over. You lose yourself if you get walked over, and it becomes one-sided. My self-esteem with guys isn’t good from all that. [On The Bachelorette] I just had to be me, be a bit selfish and just think about what I want.”
Amen to that. You can catch the full interview with Sophie in today’s Stellar (in the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Herald Sun and the Sunday Mail), or see her field suitors – most of whom we’re going to unabashedly judge – when The Bachelorette starts Wednesday September 20.
