The Bachelor reject Elora calls Laura “degrading” to other women in the house

ELORA Tahiti left The Bachelor mansion in tears but she won’t be missing Laura Byrne. The women are neighbours but seeing each other is “not a priority”.

FLIRTATIOUS fire-twirler Elora Tahiti made a teary exit from The Bachelor mansion last night but there’s no love lost between her and favourite-to-win Laura Byrne.

The two women live within a block of each other in Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay but it’s unlikely they’ll be popping over to each other’s houses for cordial cups of tea.

“Laura is my neighbour and our priority is not to see each other,” Tahiti told News Corp.

“We talk on the phone but we’re not that close that we are involved with each other or in each other’s lives.”

Elora Tahiti had picked Laura Byrne for the win from the outset. Picture: Brett Costello

Viewers picked Byrne as most likely to win Matthew ‘Matty J’ Johnson’s heart after she scored the first kiss of the season.

But chemistry between the pair was just as obvious to the Byrne’s love rivals inside the house.

“I always had an idea from day one that Laura was going to be one of the top ones,” said Tahiti.

“And then as we went through Elise came up as a dark horse. But even when it was 20 girls, I definitely had my eye on the top three. I never thought it would go another way.”

According to Tahiti, the ‘nice girl Laura’ viewers see on screens isn’t always sugar.

“Laura is very confident and she knows who she is, and sometimes she can be a bit degrading to other girls — like any confident woman,” said Tahiti.

Matty J and Elora enjoy the first steamy date of the season. Picture: Supplied / TEN

“Elise was really having a hard time with Laura in group settings because Laura would just be really loud and talk over Elise and I could see them trying to fight to get a line out,” she said.

However, Tahiti reveals her one regret from the show is not forging better relationships with the women.

“I should have been a bit more myself with the girls so they could have seen me for who I am. And then we would have been closer than we are,” she said.

And as for Johnson, the man who left her “heartbroken” as she fled the mansion in floods of tears?

“I’m over Matty J. It’s been four months, you get over it,” she said, clarifying she had already dated and dumped someone else.

Originally published as The Bachelor reject Elora calls Laura “degrading” to other women in the house