Thomas Malucelli, who is one of the three leads on the upcoming season of The Bachelor Australia, has been injured in a motorcycle crash.
The reality star took to his Instagram Stories to tell his followers that while he suffered multiple injuries from the accident, they weren’t life-threatening.
“Hit the ground pretty hard but I’m so grateful that my body is a miracle! 2nd motorbike accident that I’m involved in that’s not my fault.. gotta really have eyes everywhere Feeling so grateful to be alive right now,” he captioned a close up photo showing him wearing a brace.
In a second slide, Thomas shared another photo of himself in a hospital bed with a caption that read, “Update: I have a broken collarbone, torn ligament on my thumb…. Few scratches and bruises but I’m okay! Being looked after so well.”
Thomas will feature as one of three leads on season ten of The Bachelor Australia alongside Felix Von Hofe and Jed McIntosh. The latest Bachelor instalment was expected to air in the latter half of this year, however, last month Channel 10 announced it would be postponed until 2023.
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“Ten have made the call to delay the show until early 2023, so they can focus on promoting The Real Love Boat,” a source told Daily Mail Australia. “I don’t see them airing reality dating shows back-to-back, and there’s only 10 ratings weeks left.
“They would rather hold it and give it the publicity it needs.”
Over the past few months, negative information has leaked about the upcoming The Bachelor leads; in particular Jed.
Firstly, old posts resurfaced that showed him joking about “rape” and other predatory behaviour. The offensive posts that were uncovered were published in 2011.
In one of the posts, McIntosh writes that he and another person “are gonna rape yas [sic].” He then adds: “so watch out because theres a storm coming kids [sic].
Two additional screenshots of McIntosh’s posts were shared. In one of the posts, he allegedly writes, “So now it’s just you and me captain, [blacked out name] let’s go into battle and smash some pussy and let people now that we’re MOTHER FUCKING SINGLE”.
Furthermore, Jed has allegedly been spotted out acting “very single” and mingling with women, after the show had finished filming. He has also reportedly decide to move to the US to pursue his musical career just a week after it was announced that the season had been delayed until 2023.
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