Jason Dundas missed out on being The Bachelor
And to think we very nearly got this....
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Ab-mazing Getaway presenter Jason Dundas has revealed he was nearly cast as the next Bachelor in TEN’s upcoming season, but lost the gig to Nick “Honey Badger” Cummins.
“I’ve been on TV for 15 years in Australia,” he told Page Six TV in the US. “It is hard to find someone who doesn’t look at you as that guy on TV. So they said to me, look, this is an environment where there’s a bunch of amazing girls we’ve handpicked for you and they have no influence from the outside world.
“They can’t Google, use social media, ask their friends. So they said it’s a great controlled environment to find true love.”
Cummins is more ‘raw’ as talent and presumably more likely to bring some spontaneity / humour to the show. Last week on Gogglebox, female viewers were non-plussed about news he would star in the next series.
“I actually would have done it,” he said. “But I was beat out by some rugby player.”
Back to the travel schlepping it is, eh…?
Filming for the new series is currently underway.
Source: Fairfax
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12 Responses
I used to have the biggest crush on him
Whoever is making decisions over at 10 must be a huge rugby fan
15 years????….. i have never seen him before in my life and i have know idea about the other guy either!
Ugh. No thankyou! No more “celebrities” please! Sophie Monk’s season was a fun novelty but having “celebrities” at the helm is just taking the piss.
or just have a separate celebrity addiction to the show.
I don’t blame ten for not wanting Jason Dundas. Whatever show he is on sinks faster than a submarine. (Big Adventure, X-Factor)
Getaway still running years later. In his defence X Factor had fatigue by the time he arrived and Big Adventure had format issues. But I can see that Honey Badger is more of a wild card which worked well with Sophie Monk.
The US don’t have Celebrity Bachelor, why do we need it? There are surely plenty of hot single guys out there looking for a relationship.
Plenty of US Bachelors have been former athletes
How the hell is a guy who looks like that single
it kind of makes you think. there must be something really wrong with him… he isn’t to high profile
Right decision made. Dundas has never helmed a strong rating show.