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Continued Part 2:
What really goes on behind the scenes on The Bachelor Australia
August 30, 2015 1:46am
SIOBHAN DUCK, LUKE DENNEHY, ALICE COSTERSunday Herald Sun
Simms said she had to move in with her parents after she finished filming because she was so “emotionally fragile”, likening the experience to being “institutionalised”.
It is understood that Simms and the other women on the show were paid roughly $90 a day to spend seven-days-a-week locked inside the Sydney house for up to three months of filming and flirting.
Sources say the bachelor is usually paid about $500 a week to date the bevy of beauties. The meagre wage reduces the pool of men interested in taking part in the show.
“It’s doubtful a serious businessman would be able to walk away from their business for three months for that sort of money,” an insider said. “It wouldn’t even cover rent.
“But no one goes on that show for the money.”
Sources claim Blake Garvey never really wanted to propose to eventual ‘winner’, Sam Frost, right.
However, lowly wages are not uncommon in reality TV.
They are usually a token payment to assist contestants cover basic bills while they are filming. It’s only once a contestant graduates to a second series that they are officially considered “talent” and offered a proper wage.
Rumour has it Sam Frost has picked up quite the pay rise between her stints on The Bachelor.
In her new gig on The Bachelorette, she is said to be being paid $50,000.
There is some suggestion that it was last year’s bachelor Blake Garvey’s decision to dump Frost, and the revelation he owned a secret stripping service, that resulted in the increased scepticism of the show this year.
But an insider defended Garvey, saying he was just a pawn on the show.
Likewise, this year’s bachelor, Wood, wasn’t calling the shots on what happened with the extravagant dates or the women on the series, the insider said.
“He has no control over what happens on those dates,” the insider said.
“He doesn’t organise anything. He barely gets a say on which girls even get to go on them with him.
“Everyone knows that there’s a reason that (series two bachelor) Blake (Garvey) ended up with the second runner-up. He never wanted it to be Sam (Frost) who became the winner, but producers pressured him because it made a better story for the show.”
Sam Wood comforts contestant Jacinda after a rough day.
An awkward moment between Sam, Sarah and Sandra earlier this season.
While admitting that Wood didn’t book the hot air balloon rides himself, Gunsberg was adamant that the show wasn’t a big fake.
“He suggests that he takes a girl on a picnic and we sprinkle a helicopter ride on it because it’s television,” he said.
So how much of the show is real, then?
“I can tell you that the emotions on this show are 100 per cent real,” Gunsberg said.
“I have had the pleasure of watching three men find real and lasting relationships on this show.
“It’s a beautiful thing.”
What really goes on behind the scenes on The Bachelor Australia
August 30, 2015 1:46am
SIOBHAN DUCK, LUKE DENNEHY, ALICE COSTERSunday Herald Sun
Simms said she had to move in with her parents after she finished filming because she was so “emotionally fragile”, likening the experience to being “institutionalised”.
It is understood that Simms and the other women on the show were paid roughly $90 a day to spend seven-days-a-week locked inside the Sydney house for up to three months of filming and flirting.
Sources say the bachelor is usually paid about $500 a week to date the bevy of beauties. The meagre wage reduces the pool of men interested in taking part in the show.
“It’s doubtful a serious businessman would be able to walk away from their business for three months for that sort of money,” an insider said. “It wouldn’t even cover rent.
“But no one goes on that show for the money.”
Sources claim Blake Garvey never really wanted to propose to eventual ‘winner’, Sam Frost, right.
However, lowly wages are not uncommon in reality TV.
They are usually a token payment to assist contestants cover basic bills while they are filming. It’s only once a contestant graduates to a second series that they are officially considered “talent” and offered a proper wage.
Rumour has it Sam Frost has picked up quite the pay rise between her stints on The Bachelor.
In her new gig on The Bachelorette, she is said to be being paid $50,000.
There is some suggestion that it was last year’s bachelor Blake Garvey’s decision to dump Frost, and the revelation he owned a secret stripping service, that resulted in the increased scepticism of the show this year.
But an insider defended Garvey, saying he was just a pawn on the show.
Likewise, this year’s bachelor, Wood, wasn’t calling the shots on what happened with the extravagant dates or the women on the series, the insider said.
“He has no control over what happens on those dates,” the insider said.
“He doesn’t organise anything. He barely gets a say on which girls even get to go on them with him.
“Everyone knows that there’s a reason that (series two bachelor) Blake (Garvey) ended up with the second runner-up. He never wanted it to be Sam (Frost) who became the winner, but producers pressured him because it made a better story for the show.”
Sam Wood comforts contestant Jacinda after a rough day.
An awkward moment between Sam, Sarah and Sandra earlier this season.
While admitting that Wood didn’t book the hot air balloon rides himself, Gunsberg was adamant that the show wasn’t a big fake.
“He suggests that he takes a girl on a picnic and we sprinkle a helicopter ride on it because it’s television,” he said.
So how much of the show is real, then?
“I can tell you that the emotions on this show are 100 per cent real,” Gunsberg said.
“I have had the pleasure of watching three men find real and lasting relationships on this show.
“It’s a beautiful thing.”
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