Just when you thought The Bachelor Australia saga had died down, Blake Garvey phoned in for a chat this morning on The Kyle and Jackie O radio show.
Read all the juiciest bits from the Bachelor’s conversation with shock jocks Kyle and Jackie O, and find out what made him hang up on the radio duo on air.
Jackie O began the interview by asking an audibly defeated Blake, if he was struggling with what was going on, he said, “At the end of the day I can’t really change people’s perceptions, I know myself I know who I am I’ve just tried as much as I can to stay true to that this whole time.”
Jackie O askedhim if there was anything he’d like to say to the people out there who, “were judging him unfairly”.
“It’s intense and at that very moment in time I thought absolutely I was doing the right thing,” he said.
Kyle brought up the topic of intercourse Blake became defensive and said, “Come on mate, lets not go down that path.” When Kyle pushed him for an answer Blake replied, “It’s got nothing to do with that.. Sam is a lovely girl and I’m sorry I hurt her.”
When asked if he would ever get back with Sam, Blake said, “I think the damage is down in that respect, and it’s not about whether we’re compatible, I wouldn’t have got to the point to call this off if I thought that we could still have a relationship, or go forward. And that’s just me being completely true to myself.”
Jackie asked if there was a moment he realised that it wasn’t going to work out.
“There wasn’t one specific moment,” he said. “When you’re hanging out with someone and you just know – you two probably have the same thing when you’re together, I assume there’s no romantic feelings! You’ve got your best mate, sitting across from you and you’re being silly and laughing – but is it romantic? For me it didn’t feel that way.”
Blake was probed as to whether he was in love with one of the other girls who appeared on the show.
“Absolutely not,” he said. “It wasn’t right and for me, I still haven’t recovered from the whole bloody, crazy experience.” He said, “No, no way!” when asked if he was with anyone else.
“I really won’t mind having some time to myself and my friends and family right now”
On the topic of one of the front-running contestants, Jess, he said, “For me, I think I felt a particular way about Jess… For Jess and I, we were just at different stages in our life, I mean I’m almost 32 and she’s starting Uni, I could just tell we were at different stages and it wasn’t right.”
He confirmed he had only seen Sam since filming ended.
Jackie O then played an excerpt from an earlier phone call from a ‘reality TV insider’ for Blake to hear:
I was told directly from an insider, producers forced Blake to propose. They pushed or coached him into the proposal, and Blake just wanted to be a TV star so he gave them exactly what they wanted. Based on the ratings of last season, they really wanted a proposal this season, so he was really coached into the proposal by the producers
“Not at all, not at all. You’ve got the option to go ahead with it, but there’s no one standing there saying, ‘This would make great TV’.”
Part two of the insider’s phone call revealed:
Here’s the bit that really gets me, he [Blake] said ‘I’m going to choose the person who’s going to be the easiest to get rid of’ – and that was Sam. Producers told him that her keeping the ring would keep her happy in the end.
Blake responded to these allegations by saying, “Not at all – Jesus. That’s all I can say, absolutely not, that’s rubbish.”
Jackie O revealed that Sam been stopped for doing all media interviews.
To top the lengthy interview Kyle called Sam’s phone and told Blake he was to leave a message. As the phone reached Sam’s message Bank, Kyle said, “It’s the last time you’ll speak with her, are you ready?”
To which Blake replied, “I’m not going to do that out of respect, so thank you for your time,” before promptly hanging up the phone.
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Garvey, who was billed as a real estate agent, is also the owner of Alpha Male Entertainment, which provides strippers and topless waiters for parties and hens nights. News Corp reported that Garvey himself worked as a topless waiter for two years.
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