Western Australia, stop serving dodgy reality show men

WA has a lot to answer for after the string of dubious men it’s been flinging at unsuspecting Bachelors and Bachelorettes, writes Amelia Saw.

WESTERN Australia, you’ve got some answering to do. It’s about your bachelors.

Is the scunge you’re digging out and flinging on to unsuspecting Bachelors and Bachelorettes really the best the largest state in the world can come up with?

Let’s start with the most recent Bachelorette reject, Mr Blake Colman.

A handsome 29-year-old from Perth who could have very well won Sophie Monk’s heart, giving Monk her happy ever after with… a street fighter.

Aah, sigh, ain’t love grand?!

In 2015, Colman assaulted Tristan Cooper on a night out after Cooper tried to diffuse an argument between Colman and another man outside Perth Hungry Jack’s restaurant. Classy.

Cooper recounts a terrifying scene which saw Colman pick him up by the neck and throw him to the ground, causing him to knock his head on the corner of a window.

The force was so great, a nearby woman was sprayed with Cooper’s blood.

Cooper now alleges Colman has refused to pay him the court-ordered compensation.

With his fighting history, how did Blake Colman get the chance to get up close and personal with Sophie Monk? (Pic: Network Ten)

Notwithstanding the duty Network Ten and production company Warner Bros. have to investigate contestants prior to leaving their vulnerable cast and crew in proximity to offenders with a history of violence, Colman’s inclusion on The Bachelorette is both shocking and disturbing.

Thankfully, Monk saw the red flags and eliminated Colman because she didn’t feel he had “her back”. But not until he’d made it to the top four contestants.

However, shortly before Australia was watching Monk’s near escape, another woman was extracting herself from the awkward arms of a different Perth-based Bachelor.

Richie Strahan, a man who puts the “uncool” in “cool bananas”, and managed to unite the nation in outrage when he chose Alex Nation over fan-favourite Nikki Gogan.

Rather than allow Gogan’s genuine girl-next-door charm win his heart, Strahan applauded Nation’s cunning and coolly strategic efforts and rewarded her.

But not before fans branded him a national “idiot” and Nation became Australia’s most disliked woman by default.

However, all the viewer vitriol was misplaced because less than a year later the pair split after Strahan went back on his promise to move to Melbourne to be close to Nation and her six-year-old son, Elijah.

Who could have predicted one year after this magical coupling, Richie Strahan and Alex Nation would no longer be a couple? (Pic: Network Ten)

Nation saw her opportunity to make a getaway and ran… on to the footy field… beside a fellow player called Maegan Luxa… who is now reportedly her girlfriend.

Neither Strahan nor Nation have spoken publicly about the breakup but according to sources close to teary Strahan, he did not think the news was “cool bananas”.

But perhaps no one should be surprised.

The theme of broken promises was established by Australia’s first Bachelor and Perth local, Blake Garvey.

Smarmy Garvey got down on one knee in the finale episode to propose to sweetheart Sam Frost.

A brave, grand and romantic gesture.

If he wasn’t secretly winking and mouthing the words, “Sssshhh… meet you later,” at third runner-up contestant Louise Pillidge over Frost’s shoulder mid-embrace.

That relationship ended after 18 months, with those close to the couple claiming Garvey could be “moody and switch from freezing her out to talking her down,” which sounds totally dreamy providing you’re a sadomasochist.

“Louise... err... Sam... would you marry me? Well, not really but we’ll talk about that later.” (Pic: Network Ten)

Then there are the claims from one of Garvey’s ex-girlfriends that the “eligible” 34-year-old bachelor sleeps with a line of Cabbage Patch dolls at the foot of his bed in the home he shares with his mother.

“There are at least 20 dolls, all arranged neatly on the bed. He said there were a few to collect and he wanted to get them all. I think it’s kinda creepy,” the ex-flame told Woman’s Day on the condition of anonymity.

Thankfully, Garvey’s 50-year-old mother Andrea Garvey, jumped to his defence and claimed the dolls as her own.

Because there’s nothing sexier than a grown man being defended by his mother over his doll collection.

For the sake of your state’s reputation, would the good guys in WA please stand up?

Amelia Saw is News Corp Australia’s National TV writer.