1. "He's a puppet." Former Bachelor contestant Nadine on what Locky was really like on the show.

After leaving theBachelormansion last week, former contestant Nadine has shared what Locky was really like behind the scenes on the show. And it's not all sunshine and roses.

Speaking to the So Dramatic podcast, the 30-year-old claimed that this year's season was rigged and Locky was being fed lines by producers via an earpiece.

"He’s a puppet, and I saw that from the first five minutes," Nadine claimed.

When meeting Locky for the first time, Nadine said she could hear what producers were telling him to do, including feeding him lines such as, "Tell her she’s beautiful, ask her what does she do, how does she feel".

She even called Locky out on it.

"I actually said to him, 'Can you not speak for yourself? Do you have to listen to what they’re saying to you?'"

Locky then apparently said he didn’t know what she was talking about, which led the producers to make Nadine redo her scene.

"They were like, 'Nadine, you can’t talk about production, do it again!'" she said. "It’s literally all rehearsed."

"I’m a criminologist by trade, yeah, so what will take girls a month or whatever to realise what these people are up to, it took me five minutes," she said. "[The producers] hated it, they hated that I could see it, I could read it."

In the podcast, Nadine claimed that she was threatened with a lawsuit if she left the show and was told to wait until the rose ceremony to be eliminated from the show.

Yikes.

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2. Bachelor in Paradise's Ciarran and Matt are meeting up for a *checks notes* charity boxing match.

Over the weekend, Ciarran Stott surprised precisely everyone when he announced he would go toe-to-toe with fellowBachelorin Paradisecontestant Matt Whyatt in a charity boxing match.

The 25-year-old shared the news on Instagram on Sunday, alongside a promotional photo of him and Matt ready to take part in 'The Battle of the Bachelors'.

"It’s nothing personal. It’s me or you. And it’s definitely not going to be me. Not in front of all these people," he captioned the post.

Both Ciarran and Matt will be fighting for a charity of their choice, with Ciarran raising money for domestic violence against women and men’s mental health, and Matt raising money for athletes recovery.

"Let’s make the best out of a bad situation. Thank you to [Team Ellis Boxing] for giving us this opportunity to raise money and settle our differences."

He then threw a cheeky jab at Matt saying, "a good edit won’t save you here, lad".

Matt also shared the post over on his Instagram, saying, "Things got heated on TV now it’s time to sort it, trust me I'm not shy of taking a hit so I hope you’re ready!"

A date for the match is yet to be confirmed.

3. Apparently Locky's friendship with MAFS' Aleks didn't go down well with The Bachelor contestants.

When Locky Gilbert was spotted in the background of ex-MAFS contestant, Aleks Markovic's Instagram Stories at the height of Perth's lockdown,The Bachelorcontestants that were isolated from their shared-boyfriend were not... happy.

According to a Woman's Day source, Locky was struggling at the time to maintain his connections with the contestants when he was unable to spend time with them in person, leading to rumours that he and Aleks were seeing each other.