Rumours are swirling on social media after Network Ten cancelled all scheduled appearances and interviews for the three stars of Thursday night's final of The Bachelor.
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Speculation was rife that one of the contestants was pregnant, and that bachelor Blake Garvey had already split up with Sam Frost, the 25-year-old financial consultant who won the second series of the television show and who became engaged to Garvey at the culmination of the episode.
Garvey, a 31-year-old Perth real estate agent, presented Frost with an engagement ring in South Africa, where the final two episodes of the show were filmed.
Network Ten has not commented on any of the rumours, or said why it cancelled media appearances for Garvey, Frost and the third finalist Lisa Hyde shortly before the series final went to air.
The internet went into overdrive with conjecture.
As the final episode went to air on Thursday night, entertainment reporter Peter Ford, who regularly appears on the 2Day FM breakfast show, was promoting "exclusive details" of a "shock that has legal and moral implications for Network Ten and contestants" on social media.
"The reality TV bombshell set to rock Australia. It was meant to be about potential wedding bells not nappies," he tweeted.
The reality show's host Osher Gunsberg was equally coy during an interview promoting the finale on The Project .
"There's a major lockdown going on because of the magnitude of what happens," he said.
The Project host, Carrie Bickmore, then jokingly asked if viewers could expect to learn that "a Bachelor baby is on its way". Gunsberg refused to be drawn on the topic after an extended silence.
A woman who only wanted to be known as "Andrea" and claiming to have "inside information" also called Southern Cross Austereo's Dan and Maz radio show before the program went to air and suggested a contestant was expecting a child.
Filming for the second series of the popular dating show wrapped more than two months ago and the majority of contestants have been active on social media in recent weeks.
Hyde, a 27-year-old fashion designer from Queensland, has been busy promoting a number of organic and natural beauty products on Instagram, while 25-year-old Frost, a finance and insurance consultant from Victoria, has been posting photos of numerous nights out with fellow Bachelor stars, including Hyde.
Network Ten could not be reached for comment on Thursday night.
