
Two years ago, Nick Cummins (AKA the Honey Badger) became the first Bachelor in Australia's history to not choose a winner.
He had the country hooked with his larrikin-esque charm and cheeky jokes – with fans well and truly strapped in for his journey to love and a happy ending.
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So when he flew his final two – Brittany Hockley and Sophie Tieman – over to New Caledonia, dumped them both and fled into the jungle, it was… a lot.
"Right now, I can't give 100 per cent to you. My head is very clouded. Right now, I'm a little bit lost," he told Hockley, before delivering a similar speech to Tieman.
The question being directed at Cummins post-ghosting looked something like: "Why did he go on a show about finding love, if he wasn't ready to find love?"
A few months after the finale aired and the public scrutiny had somewhat died down, Cummins finally spoke.
"People are so brainwashed, you’re not going to get your fairytale ending every time," he told ABC Radio National in December 2018.
"What’s more important: me just saying 'yes' and going through the motions and dragging some girl through all the media about how we’re in love and then three months down the track after the contract’s over, we’re allowed to break up?" he continued, seemingly confirming there is a contractual agreement to stay together after The Bachelor.
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People weren’t angry that he wasn’t in love, it was because he clearly did the show as a publicity move. He wasn’t actually trying to find someone and it showed. And he started telling people around the final 5 that he didn’t intend to choose a winner, so clearly he wasn’t even open to it. If you sign on to do the show there’s a fairly reasonable expectation that you’re at least open to finding someone to try a relationship with in the real world. Not a huge ask when presented with 24 beautiful women selected to your specifications. Sure, some are there for the ratings, but at least 10 are genuinely viable matches.
If you brand yourself as an honest, down to earth Aussie bloke, then it doesn’t look so good when a publicity stunt is so glaringly obvious 🤷🏽♀️