The Bachelor Australia 2024: New season filmed in Melbourne
Melbourne has won the heart of The Bachelor producers, with the reality TV show and its heartthrob army heading southside next season.
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The Bachelor is heading south with what is supposed to be Australia’s most eligible man setting up home in Melbourne, with a bevy of love seeking beauties.
Melbourne is the new city of love, move over Paris, as the Victorian Government tips in to make the town not only Australia’s most liveable, but also the most loveable.
As the hunt continues to find the best bloke to front the new season of The Bachelor, Channel 10 has confirmed what this column tipped last month, that the show has quit Queensland and is setting down roots in Melbourne.
Expect to see plenty of coffee dates in the CBD laneways, winery visits to the Mornington Peninsula and the Yarra Valley, and cruises on Port Phillip Bay.
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The feelers are already out for a sizeable property to house the lovelorn single star of the show and his romance seeking herd of potential partners.
Melbourne and the peninsula have no shortage of those types of homes .. someone is going to pick up a hefty location fee.
Osher Gunsberg will return as host. The show is expected to start filming in July-August and shoot for six weeks.
Interestingly the casting note for the show still refers to it as The Bachelors, while insiders say the preference is very much to go back to having just one hearthrob, rather than three, as the centre of attention.
Last year the bachelorettes were housed in a $14.5m mansion in Broadbeach Waters on the Gold Coast while the three bachelors lived it up in a luxury penthouse nearby.
Early seasons of the show were filmed at a magnificent six-bedroom, six-bathroom estate in Bayview, Sydney.
The show then moved to a huge property in Oxford Falls in Northern Sydney, before shifting to Le Chateau in Dural, in New South Wales.
The country estate featured five bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, an indoor pool, spa and gym as well as tennis courts.
Paramount Australia’s Daniel Monaghan, said: “The Bachelor franchise has been filmed in some of Australia’s most idyllic locations, and this year we are thrilled to share the love with Victoria. We can’t wait for viewers to fall head over heels for The Bachelor franchise against a whole new backdrop.”
The series is expected to provide more than 100 jobs for Victorian production crew members.
The Bachelor’s move to Melbourne is supported by the Victorian Government through VicScreen’s Victorian Screen Incentive.
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