‘Mean and nasty’: FoxFM’s Fifi, Fev and Byron pull the pin on Bachelor’s Cat Henesey-Smith

FOX FM’S Fifi, Fev and Byron have taken an extraordinary swipe at Bachelor “villain” Cat, after suddenly cancelling her interview.

A MELBOURNE radio show has issued a scathing rebuke to Cat Henesey-Smith, announcing on air they’d pulled their planned interview with her at the last minute as a result of her “bullying” on The Bachelor.

Cat was sensationally kicked off the show last night after Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins confronted her about her reputation as a troublemaker among the other girls.

The explosive episode also saw Cat’s sidekicks, Romy Poulier and Alisha Aitken-Radburn, leave the show.

High-profile Bachie contestants traditionally pop up on all the major radio stations the morning after their elimination, but in an incredible twist, FoxFM’s Fifi, Fev & Byron pulled the pin at the last minute.

Addressing the decision on air today, co-host Fifi Box admitted she’d “really struggled” with the decision.

“I watched it last night and I really struggled with this, thinking, ‘But we haven’t really seen any endearing qualities in this person,’” she said.

Romy, Cat and Alisha were accused of being ‘bullies’.

She continued: “We’re a very welcoming show, we’re not a nasty show, we’re not a mean show, we don’t bring [guests] on here to humiliate them or to grill them … and I thought to myself, ‘I could not, in all good conscience, welcome her to the show’, and if you can’t welcome someone onto your show, why are they coming on?”

The brutal moment Nick dumped Cat.

Fifi added that she was concerned that if Cat showed up, it would create a negative atmosphere on the show.

“I think if we’d had her [on the show today], we’d have been bullying her, and I don’t think that’s the right message. We all decided we didn’t want to get her in here and give her a hard time because that’s endorsing and reciprocating the behaviour that she subjected other people to [on The Bachelor].”

Her co-host Brendan Fevola agreed, adding that they’d been overwhelmed by the responses online.

“I read some of the messages on [FoxFM’s social channels], and they were like, ‘We’re tuning out, she’s a bully, it’s sending the wrong message, I can’t believe you’re giving her airtime,’” he said.

Fifi also blasted Cat for blaming bad editing for making her look so nasty on the show.

“The problem is, Cat — even if that’s part of your personality, that’s enough,” she said.

“I hope she’s watched the series back. The behaviour was mean and nasty.”

Following their dramatic exit from The Bachelor last night, Cat, Romy and Alisha spoke to news.com.au about their anger at the way they’d been “humiliated” on the show.

“I have so much more to offer with my personality and they’ve just humiliated me,” Cat said, accusing producers of only showing snippets of conversations and remarks made about other contestants.

“I kind of regret having such an opinion,” Romy said. “I feel like at times we were a little manipulated to feel comfortable enough to give our opinion, which is then being taken out of context, twisted, and turned and built into this incredibly b*tchy storyline.”

Speaking to Kyle and Jackie O this morning, Romy admitted the backlash had been difficult to deal with.

“It’s not easy. It’s been a shock. It’s been pretty full-on,” she told the radio hosts, before Cat added: “You’re really seeing just a fraction of our personalities.”

However, in an interview with Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa, Romy seemed happy to wear the “mean girl” tag, although she admitted some of the footage of herself was “hard to watch”.

“I’m not angry; I know what I signed up for. I filled out the paperwork,” she said.

“[Producers] wanted a villain, so I gave them a villain. It’s blown up, but I didn’t attack anyone’s looks, it wasn’t anything derogatory.”

Me trying to deal with all this Bachelor drama.

The Bachelor airs 7.30pm Wednesdays and Thursdays on Ten.