Ten has decided to review The Bachelor this season, but fans, including Abbie Chatfield, have pointed out an obvious problem.
It has been described as a “world first”, but the huge announcement of Ten High School has not enthralled viewers in a frenzy of emotion, with many who have used social media to criticize the lack of diversity in the new casting.
It was revealed the The project Monday night that this year’s edition of the dating reality show will feature three singles struggling to find their soul mate.
Professional basketball Felix Von Hofe, life coach Thomas Malucelli and drummer Jed McIntosh will be looking for love in the new series, which is being filmed on the Gold Coast.
“We’re very excited. We’re making a first world. No one in the world has ever had three bachelors, so the way it works, the way everyone knows each other is very different this year.” High school said host Osher Gunsberg The project panel.
“It simply came to our notice then. We have been going for a long time and it is already electrifying what we are seeing. Not only do we go to the headquarters to say that we can have three bachelors, but we want to do it without candles and without fairy lights, this is a meeting we have had to go through ”.
But the new radical format has hardly been received by a wave of enthusiasm.
At the head of the group of unimpressed voices was radio presenter and ex High school contestant, Abbie Chatfield, who noted the lack of diversity.
“My question is, why isn’t there a person of color? I hope at least one of them (single people) is bisexual, I don’t know. Why are they all white? And why is there a 25-year-old? “It’s too young,” he complained during his Hit Network program. Hot nights with AbbieMonday night.
There was a very similar feeling on Twitter:
Meanwhile, on the show’s official Instagram, it was the same story.
Here’s a snapshot:
“White man. White man. White man. Diversity is the next level!”
“Three white men. Pioneer. ”
“Three singles and not yet a man of color? For real?”
“These are three different brands of the same flavor.”
“How can you not think that people don’t care that there isn’t a POC out of three?”
The other important thing for dozens of fans was the strange resemblance between Jed McIntosh and global machine gun Gun Kelly, who has been dominating the headlines in recent weeks thanks to his endless red carpet PDAs with girlfriend Megan Fox .
“Wow, I’m so impressed they got MGK this season,” one fan wrote, and another added, “When they got MGK to sign up for Aussie Bach? ”
Viewers have been abandoning the franchise in recent years, and the end of the 2021 season has been broadcast to its lowest audience in history.
Jimmy Nicholson’s search for love ended with the pilot who chose Holly Kingston to Brooke Cleal.
Only 629,000 subway viewers tuned in to the final revelation of the winner, down from 879,000 in the show’s seventh season in 2020.
The fall was even more pronounced compared to the show’s first seven seasons, which drew more than a million viewers during the final minutes of its finals.
The most successful High school The end was in 2015, when almost 1.5 million people tuned in to see Sam Wood choose the now wife Snezana Wood.