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Nick 'Honey Badger' Cummins' Bachelor disaster

The rugby player turned reality star made reality TV history back in 2018. - by Alex Lilly
  • 08 Sep 2020

Nick 'Honey Badger' Cummins is about to make his grand return to reality TV on SAS Australia. But we doubt it'll be anything like his last venture when he spectacularly broke up with both of his finalists during the 2018 Bachelor finale.

WATCH BELOW: Nick Cummins opens up about mental health issues

When the former professional rugby player, now 32, was first cast as the Bachelor, he was undoubtedly like none of his predecessors.

A lovable larrikin with a penchant for interesting idioms, the great Aussie public had high hopes for Nick and were ready to see something different.

And boy, was it different. In the season final, the Bachelor famously dumped both Brittany Hockley and Sophie Tieman in a first for the Aussie franchise.

"I just know in my heart, I've done the right thing," Nick explained on the show. "They are two amazing women who are walking out of my life right now. It wouldn't be fair to enter into something and a few months later, break her heart."

"I came here for a chance at love and now I'm going to have to start again."

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Nick (pictured with finalist Sophie) made Aussie Bachelor history.

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In a bombshell interview with The Sunday Project, Nick explained his decision and added that it hit him "with a thunderbolt."

"Out of respect to these women, if I can't stand here right now and say I'm picking her and I love her...if I can't say that, why would I start something with someone?" he told interviewer Lisa Wilkinson.

He later admitted to ABC Radio National that he didn't want to fake a relationship for three months as a contractual obligation.

"And what’s more important, me just saying 'yes' and going through the motions and dragging some girl through all this media about how we’re in love and then three months down the track after the contract’s over, um, we’re allowed to break up. I’m not going to drag them through that rubbish … and break her heart. Bugger that."

Nick Cummins

"I’m not going to drag them through that rubbish … and break her heart. Bugger that."

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Brittany and Sophie were unsurprisingly shocked by Nick's move and slammed his controversial decision. 

"I would hope he's a little embarrassed," Sophie admitted to Lisa on The Sunday Project.

"We just went through so many highs and so many lows and I'm sure he did too but I just hope there's something in him that's a little unhappy or uneasy with his ultimate decision because God knows that we have been through hell and back on this ride."

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"I would hope he's a little embarrassed," Sophie (left) admitted.

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Following the finale, Nick ended up fleeing the country to Papua New Guinea to hike the Kokoda Trail and was rumoured to be dating Steggles chicken heiress, Lucy Steggles.

However, in November that year, the Bachelor made his first public appearance since the show at the Melbourne Cup and spilled some truths to the Daily Telegraph.

“I don’t regret it,” he confessed to the publication of his experience on the reality dating show.

“I didn’t enjoy it a great deal but I don’t regret it because I learnt a lot.”

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“I didn’t enjoy [The Bachelor] a great deal but I don’t regret it because I learnt a lot.”

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The Honey Badger is now returning to reality TV on SAS Australia along with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, PR maven Roxy Jacenko and 2018 Bachelorette Ali Oetjen.

As for his dating life, it appears Nick is dating Sydney socialite Alexandra George and is spending lockdown in Seal Rocks, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales with her. 

However, neither have confirmed their romantic relationship.

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