’It’s the only way I’ll meet someone normal’: Why Sophie Monk wanted reality role
IT’S official — Sophie Monk will be the first celebrity bachelorette. Last night the ‘lady in red’ stole the show as she hit the Logies red carpet.
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STEPPING onto the Logies red carpet last night, Sophie Monk confirmed she will be the first celebrity Bachelorette.
And the unlucky-in-love 37-year-old says she knows what she wants in a guy.
“I would love them to not want fame, just someone down to earth and sweet,” Monk — whose former lovers include Hollywood actor Sam Worthington and musician Benji Madden — said.
“Someone that really likes me for me. Someone that works because I don’t want to have to pay for everything.
“I don’t really want a boyfriend that is obsessed with how he looks because I don’t care. And I would love funny but that is tricky.”
Monk follows in the footsteps of previous Bachelorettes Georgia Love and Sam Frost.
The radio and television personality, who rose to fame as a member of pop group Bardot, has often spoken of her struggles to find love.
And The Saturday Telegraph revealed earlier this month that Monk had met with the producers of the show.
“It is probably the only way I will meet someone not in the industry, someone grounded and normal,” she said.
Channel 10 will soon premiere the next season of The Bachelor, starring Matty Johnson, with The Bachelorette expected to follow.
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