Last Thursday night, we tuned into The Bachelorette finale to see Georgia Love choose between 35-year-old Lee (the one with the face), and 28-year-old Matty J (also with a face).
As we now know, poor, sweet Matty J was left all alone in a foreign country, and Australians everywhere were inappropriately devastated. In hindsight, however, there were several very obvious signs Matty J was never going to win. We just willingly chose to ignore them. If we had remained objective, and not become so swept up in Matty J’s smile/wit/abs/charisma, we would have seen Georgia’s decision coming. So we’re going to go back through that fateful night, and consider the frankly sickening, but entirely scientific, signals that Matty J was always destined to be heartbroken.
1. Goddamn Sportsbet.
Ahead of The Bachelorette finale, Sportsbet had Lee Elliott tipped to win. Matty J, being the only other person in the running, was close behind, but, um, there was another potential winner listed, tipped at $51.00.
Osher Günsberg.
EUGH we don't have time for your decoys, Sportsbet.
They DISTRACTED us, so we didn't pay attention to the fact that Lee was the most likely winner. This was the case with last season of The Bachelor too, with Alex Nation tipped to win, despite a great deal of public support for Nikki Gogan. It looks like we should always, always listen to Sportsbet.
2. Matty J always went first.
We opened with Osher introducing us to this very special evening, where everyone was living in the future.
They'd all been flown to Singapore for Georgia to make her final decision, and Osher was very excited to have been invited.
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The thing I love about Sam Frost over Georgia Love is that she knew Richie was invested and she let go of him at Final 3 rather than drag him through to Final 2. Georgia knew that Matty was the most invested yet she still took him through. I thought she wouldn't do that.
The second thing is, I find it very hard to be on board with Lee and Georgia when we were hardly shown any facet of their relationship. The whole series was mostly about Matty and Georgia's connection so we invest in that. It seems silly to show the runner ups connection and then in the last minute say "surprise" the winner is actually Lee.
Also after the Matty/Georgia jacuzzi scene I was like, there is no way that it can't be Matty. She was letting Matty think she loved him "I love hearing that, I love this about you, I just want to be here". She was definitely reciprocating his affection which is why j was sure it was him. I picked Alex as the winner based on how Richie responded to her. It was similar.
The other reason that I can't warm up to Lee is that in post finale interviews, he comes across as quite smug where as Matty has been very gracious. It's funny that he says he never watched any of Georgia's dates yet mentions that all Georgia had with the others was a "connection". I don't know, I think it seemed like much more that that and I really think that if Courtney didn't go rouge, it would be him at the end.
I feel like that too. I'm very happy for Georgia but I can't help but feel incredibly crushed for Matty. I hope he gets some different hosting gig or something like that instead of The Bachelor.
Very enjoyable reading, girls. Well done! But srsly #teamlee