Ah karma.
In a feat of sublime timing, last night, as his jilted one-time fiancee made her glorious debut on The Bachelorette, Blake Garvey was fired from The Celebrity Apprentice.
His departure was preceded by some very undignified bickering with Richard Reid, who described his managerial style as “passive-aggressive”.
Garvey demurred in his deeply deep voice, but it wasn’t enough. The finger was pointed and he was gone.
Meanwhile, Sam Frost was courted by 14 devoted men, sent two of them packing and has been designated the Bachie Queen.
Garvey became the second celebrity to be fired from the show, after Gabi Grecko was sent away last week for not doing anything/possibly being insane.
Garvey said that he did the show because he wanted Australia to see him as “more than just that guy who hands out roses”.
If it was a PR exercise after the disaster that was The Bachelor 2014, it failed miserably.
Since he was fired, his arch nemesis Richard Reid has been telling anyone who’ll listen that he’s “manipulative, cunning and passive aggressive”.
“He has that deep Bachelor voice of his and I think he actually dines out on his voice and his persona, and he really does believe that he’s the Bachelor and that every woman wants him. I really truly believe that,” Reid told News Corp.
“I think it comes across as ‘well I could have slept with every single woman in the office but …’ and I’m like ‘really, well I don’t know about that’. Yet I think underneath all that bravado, he’s actually quite insecure.”
OUCHIES. Way harsh, Richard Reid.
We can only hope Louise Pillidge allowed Garvey to return to her loving arms and didn’t ditch him for some other dude instead.
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Why the continual nastiness about Blake Garvey? It was terrible that Sam Frost had her heart broken, because she seems like a great girl. However a person cannot and should not remain in a relationship that isn't right for them just because of public expectation. That is ridiculous! Clearly, he WAS better suited to Louise and they seem happy together. Enough with the spite. It's bullying! For Richard Reid to go around bad mouthing Blake to the media is also passive-aggressive, so he's being a hypocrite.Poor form, Richard.
I came here to say the same thing! It must have been awful for Sam but what was he supposed to do, marry her to keep Australia happy when he's clearly in love with someone else?
It was unfortunate but not malicious, unlike every single mention of Blake in the media since!!
I think the Sam stuff is just something to add on to the sentence, but the main problem people have with him is that he comes across as a disingenuous, narcissistic jerk. He's very into himself and puts out a "gods gift to women" vibe that is just so off-putting. What he did to Sam Frost sucks and I don't like him. But I didn't like him before that, when the show started and I haven't liked him despite what he's done since and that's just that. I think that's what most people feel towards him, and that extra stuff about Sam (#allhailthebachiequeen) is just something else to hold against Him.
He's just a douche. That's it.
He didn't have to ask Sam to marry him, he could have chosen Louise as his girl, but he didn't. If he was pressured by producers, then he was just gutless. Who wouldn't stand up for the person you have chosen??