The Bachelor Australia has announced a premiere date for the third time, and if all goes to plan we should be watching the three leads hand out red roses on January 9, 2023.
It was originally announced that The Bachelor would start in October 2022. At the Channel 10 Upfronts last month, the premiere date was pushed back to January 2, 2023. Now, the franchise has announced The Bachelor Australia will air on January 9, 2023.
It has been confirmed that the upcoming season will have three leads; Jed McIntosh, Felix Von Hofe and Thomas Malucelli.
McIntosh is a drummer for Melbourne band Mood Monroe and has played with some big names including Kylie Minogue, Pharrell Williams, T-Pain and Sean Paul. Von Hofe is a marketing manager who was a captain for the Melbourne Tigers and Malucelli is a fitness and life coach.
“No one in the world has ever had three bachelors and so, therefore, the way it works, the way everyone gets to know each other is very different this year,’ host Osher Günsberg said on The Project in May.
“It’s already been fascinating. We’ve been going [filming] for a little while now and it is already just electrifying what we’re seeing.”
And, it appears that the extra leads aren’t the only change in format in this season of the reality show.
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“To really mix things up, Felix, Jed and Thomas all went on a series of blind dates at the start of the season and chose which girls then make it onto the show. They were filming multiple dates a day, before then finally getting to the first cocktail party,” a source told Yahoo Lifestyle.
Some former The Bachelor contestants are leads are set to compete on The Challenge Australia, which premieres on Monday, November 14 at 7:30pm on Channel 10 and 10 Play. Brittany Hockley, Jessica Brody, Brooke Blurton, Ciarran Stott, Konrad Bien-Stephen, Megan Marx, and Kiki Morris will all battle it out for the grand prize of 200,000, and the opportunity to compete in The Challenge: Global Championship.
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