It turns out former Bachelorette contestant Rhys Chilton has a little more in common with another of the show’s cast offs than perhaps we first realised.
Like the first season’s Michael Turnbull, Chilton is from Brisbane.
*cough*
Okay, THERE’S MORE. It appears he’s also adopted his fellow Brisbanian’s penchant for lying tweaking his Instagram photos with Photoshop — and not in a tabloid-esque ‘how dare she put a filter on her bikini photo’ way.
In a ‘he actually photoshopped puppies onto a shirtless photo of himself’ way.
Yes, he did. He also did this kitten:
HE DID A KITTEN TOO #bacheloretteau pic.twitter.com/JqvJD1AMSp
— Love Actually Fan (@JennaGuillaume) October 13, 2016
There are two possible courses of action for an ex-reality TV star caught out in photo-faking scandal during the infancy of their celebrity.
There’s the well-worn Turnbull route of: Deny, deny, deny. (A tactic he employed with some efficacy when he was caught out stealing photos of fancy champagne from Google images, wearing a fake Rolex, not attending the Logies, backing a pyramid scheme…)
OR, there’s the newly forged Chilton path of totally owning it and, look, posting a pretty A+ follow up.
Not only did Rhys admit his fault via a series of well placed tearfully laughing emojis in the comments section of the puppy post, he also shared this:
