Zoe-Clare is missing from the rose ceremony, with Osher revealing she's "unwell". She still scores a rose from Locky.
31-year-old model Paige and entrepreneur Nadine, 30, are sent home.
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Viewers were baffled when a contestant claimed she was discriminated against for her hair colour during the first episode of The Bachelor.
In a twist nobody saw coming during Wednesday's Bachelor premiere, 23-year-old Queenslander Zoe-Clare has claimed she’s being targeted by a fellow contestant because she’s a redhead.
Furious after being interrupted by Areeba during a one-on-one chat with Locky, Zoe-Clare broke down in tears to the camera, claiming she was being bullied for her complexion.
She said she “felt invisible”.
After speaking to fellow contestants and producers, who had asked how she came to such a conclusion, Zoe-Clare said: “I don’t want to go through this experience being different because of the colour of my goddamn hair, and that sucks. It’s the colour of my complexion.”
Areeba had not been captured on camera making any comments about Zoe's hair throughout the episode.
“Would Areeba do it to any of the blonde girls, any of the brunette girls? No,” she later said, adding: "You know what, I’m proud of being a ranga, I will be a ranga until the day I die. We are more striking than any other human that walks this earth. You don’t have our blue eyes or our green eyes that can literally stop traffic. You sure as sh*t don’t have our hair. The way that people treat men and women with red hair needs to end right now.”
She went on to approach Areeba with a fiery confrontation.
“I just wanna say what you did was really not appropriate and really not okay,” she said, bending down to eye level and waving her hand in Areeba’s face.
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And that's a wrap
The triple threat rose goes to…
NICOLE!
She does a victory lap around the party in her showgirl costume and Louis Vuitton Laura is p***ed.
“There is a running theme here with people dressing up and looking f***ing stupid and Locky appreciating that,” Laura says.
“What she does a high kick? I can do a high kick as well,” she asserts.
A fiery outburst over a sandwich
Back to the fight.
Zoe is still marching around the party declaring war against Areeba.
She finds her inside, munching on a sandwich.
“I just wanna say what you did was really not appropriate and really not okay,” she says, bending down to eye level and waving her hand aggressively in Areeba’s face.
It's very drunk-on-cruisers at the formal afterparty vibes.
“Can you just bite your tongue for two seconds?” she says to a silent Areeba, before launching into a nonsensical rant.
“He expressed that we had a vibe. You didn’t care. Thank you so much, for vibing whatever you were vibing, but you also interrupt, whatever I was vibing. And that’s really great for you, but you also look like kinda like a moll and that’s great for you.”
“I don’t care, I really don’t care,” Areeba responds.
“I called you out for being a moll,” Zoe-Clare yells as contestants nearby laugh.
Everybody moves on.
Zoe tells the cocktail party she’s being discriminated against
In a twist nobody saw coming, Zoe declares she’s being discriminated against by Areeba for having red hair.
“It’s not appropriate,” she says to the camera.
“Do you want me to dye my hair every five seconds because you don’t like that I’m a ranga?” she asks confused fellow contestants. No one answers.
Things take a turn as she grows increasingly emotional, raising her voice.
“I don’t care if you’re black, white, caramel, ranga, whatever… I’m not blonde, I’m not brunette, I’m not anything other than what I am. I’m me, and I’m not going to pretend I’m anything other than who I am."
Speaking to the camera, she breaks down in tears because she “feels invisible”.
“I don’t want to go through this experience being different because of the colour of my goddamn hair, and that sucks. It’s the colour of my complexion,” she says, wiping away tears.
Moments later, seated on a nearby outdoor couch, she starts up again: “The one time that I can walk in somewhere and go ‘no one has my hair, no one has my bone structure, no one has my body.’ And they don’t. They don’t. But you’re still different. You’re still a f***ing ranga at the end of the day.
“Would Areeba do it to any of the blonde girls, any of the brunette girls? No.”
She continues: “You know what, I’m proud of being a ranga, I will be a ranga until the day I die. We are more striking than any other human that walks this earth. You don’t have our blue eyes or our green eyes that can literally stop traffic. You sure as sh*t don’t have our hair. The way that people treat men and women with red hair needs to end right now,” she declares.
Over on Twitter, viewers were baffled by the outburst
The fight for one-on-one time begins
Locky chooses Rosemary (penguin suit) for the first solo chat, who tells the camera about her sudden urge to “poo her pants”. After a brief chat, she strips out of her penguin costume to reveal a stunning black sequined gown. Touché
As the champagne flows, the bachelorettes start to grow increasingly impatient for solo time with Locky – the fight is coming, we can smell it.
Sure enough, Zoe-Clare seethes as Areeba plonks herself down during her chat with Locky.
Stomping off, Zoe-Clare is incensed. She is also dangerously close to being cut off from the bar.
Osher enters and the women promptly lose their cool
“It didn’t seem real, it was like watching a TV but not a TV,” PhD student Kristina, 24, says of Osher’s entrance.
Osher reveals there’s a “triple threat” rose to be handed out tonight, which will give one lucky lady three guaranteed dates with Locky; a single date, a group date, and a solo invitation to Locky’s Bach pad.
Zoe-Clare is certain she’ll be the recipient, because she was born with red hair.
We have our frontrunner
Violin music plays, so we know it’s either a sad story incoming, or the winner.
It’s Bella, who is already heavily tipped to win on betting sites.
There’s plenty of giggling during her first interaction with Locky as they repeat how excited they are to get to know each other without actually asking any questions.
She gives him a heart-shaped pin to wear on his sleeves, and we might as well fast forward to the grand finale already
“She was bewddddiful,” Locky gushes as Bella walks away.
Inside the cocktail party, things are heating up as Laura and Zoe-Clare look on in disgust at Rosemary, the woman dressed as a penguin.
Locky is finally recognised
Until now, no one has clocked that Locky is in fact a former Survivor contestant, until 25-year-old Charlie makes her entrance.
“OMG, he’s like semi-famous” she tells the camera before heading inside to tell the others.
Laura is instantly peeved that she didn’t make the connection.
“Where has this come from?” she screams, unable to believe that “the man in the suit” she just met could have been a former Survivor contestant.
Charlie swears on her eyebrows it’s him.
A montage, then another ‘mean girl’
A montage of the slightly more forgettable contestants plays, as Locky marvels in a voice over how incredible it is to be the Bachelor and no longer eating beans and rice on Survivor.
Channel 10 gives the pyrotechnics budget a workout with a drum and flame display – as the woman waiting to go next in the limo, Laura, complains and rolls her eyes.
“You ain’t special b***h,” she says, before telling the camera she expects Locky to buy her a gift – such as a luxury car or similar – for her upcoming birthday.
“I quite enjoy the Louis Vuitton handbags, the Chanel earrings, the Porsche Cayenne turbo… so, my birthday’s next week…. If things go well,” she says.
On meeting Locky, she pulls out a paper chatterbox, and promptly asks how much he would spend on her birthday present, dropping a massive hint that she’d like a Louis Vuitton handbag, please.
She’s unimpressed by his response, even more-so by his revelation that he spends a large amount of time in Bali
“It’s gross. Bali’s gross,” she scowls.
Viewers were not impressed.
She waltzes into the party, telling everyone Locky is her boyfriend.
We have our 'villain'
Zoe-Clare, “a loud, blunt and fiery redhead”, struts up the path before trying and failing at her own party trick – opening a beer bottle with her teeth.
She tells us she’s here to cause fights, “won’t put up with any sh*t” and has red hair.
After meeting Locky and telling him he’s tall, she says she has “fanny flutters” and is blown away by the fact that Locky can also open a beer bottle with his teeth, which is her party trick… the party trick she couldn’t actually do.
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