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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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