The Bachelor 2022: Woman sunbathe topless at $14.5m Gold Coast mansion

The new season of The Bachelor Australia seems to be set to be the wildest but with a batch of enjoyable and free-spirited contestants who aren’t afraid to flash the flesh.

Incredible on-set images taken on Saturday, May 28, reveal the glamorous girls sunbathing topless by the pool in scenes that would simply have come from a ‘Girls Gone Wild’ film.

The bachelorettes, who’re dwelling collectively at a $14.5million waterfront mansion on the Gold Coast, despatched temperatures hovering as they whipped off their bikini tops and soaked up the scorching Queensland solar.

The new Bachelor mansion in Broadbeach Waters appears to have fairly the get together vibe.

The girls had been wearing outfits starting from bathing fits to casual get-ups and get together attire as they loved their downtime in between filming.

This year’s season of The Bachelor is the primary to function a couple of main man, and has been rebranded ‘The Bachelors’.

The present can also be being filmed on the Gold Coast as an alternative of Sydney for the primary time.

It’s unclear whether or not the three suitors, Jed McIntosh, Felix Von Hofe and Thomas Malucelli, reside within the Broadbeach Waters house with the contestants.

Jed is the drummer for Melbourne alt-pop band Mood Monroe.

He began drumming when he was simply 4 years previous, and commenced taking part in professionally at 13.

He has labored with a string of well-known musicians, together with Kylie Minogue, Pharrell Williams, T-Pain and Sean Paul.

Thomas is a former restaurant supervisor from Sydney, who has spent the final 5 years working as a health and life coach.

The third suitor, Felix, who stands at a formidable 198cm tall, performs basketball for the Melbourne Tigers.

The new Bachelor mansion presents unbelievable ocean views with wall-to-ceiling glass home windows all through.

The property has open-plan dwelling areas that overlook the outside entertaining space and huge swimming pool.

The ‘Beverly Hills-inspired’ house is a change from the $6.3million ‘French chateau’ in Dural, in Sydney’s west, used for Jimmy Nicholson’s season.

Before Dural, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette had been filmed at a $2.3million property in Oxford Falls, in Sydney’s north.

The Bachelors will premiere on Channel 10 later this year. There won’t be a brand new season of The Bachelorette.

The upcoming season has obtained backlash from celebrities and progressive media figures for casting ‘three straight white males’ as leads.

Franchise veteran Abbie Chatfield mentioned on her Hit Network radio present final month she hopes at least one of many three males is bisexual.

However, this does not appear to be the case because the contestants are all girls.

‘Why is there not one particular person of color? I’m hoping at least one in every of them is bisexual. I’m simply hoping that there is one thing occurring right here,’ she mentioned.

‘Why are all of them white?’ she continued, earlier than declaring that suitor Jed McIntosh is barely 25 years previous.

‘It’s too younger to be the lead of the present the place it’s important to quiet down,’ Abbie mentioned.

Angie Kent, who fronted The Bachelorette in 2019 and now hosts her personal podcast for Nova, additionally mentioned she was ‘saddened’ by the non-diverse casting.

Juliette Herrera, a fan favorite from Locky Gilbert’s season in 2020, additionally weighed in on the controversy.

The 36-year-old informed Daily Mail Australia final month the casting was the ‘demise of the franchise’ and mentioned Channel 10 needs to be doing extra to recruit various expertise.

‘We’ve had white Bachelors again to again. Why do not Channel 10 give one other particular person of color an opportunity? Is it as a result of the final season bombed?’ she mentioned.

The Bachelor Australia has been slammed for its lack of variety up to now, regardless of having the primary black Bachelor ever with Blake Garvey on season two in 2014.

It took the unique American model of The Bachelor till season 25 final year to have a black lead in Matt James.

The Aussie franchise tried to repair its variety downside final year by having Fijian pilot Jimmy Nicholson entrance season 9, whereas Indigenous youth employee Brooke Blurton was The Bachelorette a number of months later.

Brooke’s season additionally made historical past by being the primary ‘queer’ instalment of the franchise, with each women and men vying for her coronary heart.

Unfortunately, each seasons bombed within the rankings.

Last year’s premiere of The Bachelor garnered solely 482,000 viewers in comparison with 2020’s premiere, which drew 681,000 viewers.

Jimmy’s finale introduced in 629,000 viewers, which was a big drop from the earlier year when 879,000 folks tuned in to see Locky make his resolution.

The Bachelorette fared even worse final year, with Brooke’s season bringing within the lowest viewers because the present’s Australian launch in 2015.

Last month, a Channel 10 government defended casting three white suitors for the brand new season, insisting the complete cast will embody a number of various contestants.

Beverley McGarvey, the Executive Vice President of Paramount Australia, informed TV Tonight that whereas the Bachelors themselves are all white, the ladies vying for his or her hearts will probably be consultant of Australia’s various inhabitants.

‘This year, we had been attempting to do one thing completely different with The Bachelor, even simply when it comes to the age vary,’ Ms McGarvey mentioned.

‘[That] permits us to cast several types of girls as nicely.’

Ms McGarvey mentioned the present’s critics might rethink their position as soon as they see the whole cast for this season is ‘very consultant of the Australian inhabitants’.

She defended the casting of Felix, Jed and Thomas because the three Bachelors, noting that ‘these guys do not essentially all [look] like your typical Bachelor of years passed by’.

Paramount Global, which owns Channel 10, has a strict ‘no variety, no fee’ coverage, and McGarvey mentioned this rule applies to crew members in addition to expertise.