It’s been revealed that The Bachelor lead, Felix Von Hofe, previously dated Olympic athlete Liz Clay.
Liz Clay competed at the 2020 Olympics in the 100m hurdles and missed out on making the finals by just 0.04 seconds.
A source told Yahoo Lifestyle that Felix dated Liz a few years ago.
“Felix and Liz were together for around a year in 2018 before they suddenly stopped posting about each other one day and removed their posts together,” they told the publication.
“No one really knew what happened, it seemed to end abruptly.”
Both Felix and Liz have deleted all photos of them together off social media. However, they still follow one another and occasionally like each others posts.
Felix is one of three leads on the new season of The Bachelor which premieres tonight. He is joined by Jed McIntosh and Thomas Malucelli.
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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.
The Bachelor’s start date of early January is unusual, and the show was assumably pushed forward so that it didn’t have to compete with Channel 9’s rating bonanza MAFS.
The start date of January 9th places the program outside the 40-week ratings year television networks typically use, which starts in February and ends in November, with a small break over Easter.
With ratings lower over the holiday periods and advertisers spending less money, networks tend to save their biggest launches for February. By bringing The Bachelors season forward, it will likely have finished its run before MAFS hits the air.
The announcement was made at the launch of Ten’s 2023 programming this week, which included new shows The Traitors and Taskmaster, and old favourites The Bachelor, Survivor, MasterChef, and the return of 2022 success Hunted.
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