We all pretty much know how The Bachelor works by now. You take a single, blandly attractive 20 or 30-something man with the personality of a mayonnaise sandwich, put him in a mansion full of blonde hair and chardonnay, and viola! Love happens. It’s a successful formula that sees the winner ostensibly getting engaged to the bachelor (and sometimes even married!), one of the runners up moving on to The Bachelorette, and other assorted castoffs popping up on Bachelor in Paradise.
But over on the Australian version of the reality series, Bachelor Australia, two former contestants decided to create their own narrative. In a page ripped straight from the Bachelor spoof Burning Love, ex-contestants Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon failed to win over the dude of their respective season, Richie Strahan, but ended up finding love on their season anyway — with each other! Both Marx and Scanlon have been posting PDA-filled photos to Instagram for at least a few weeks now, but yesterday Marx posted the above birthday message to Scanlon during a trip to Abrolhos islands for her 30th, confirming the relationship.
Nothing like this has ever happened on the American version of the show, but if there is a god it will be during thrice-dumped Nick Viall’s upcoming season, because the only way he can possibly get dumped at this point is for another contestant. It would be riveting television.
You can check out some of Marx and Scanlon’s adorable Instagram photos below:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BL-utXqhRd-/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BL7RagmBlYJ/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLf99eTBUUo/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLNufdsB0fR/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKp-Pewhw9w/
(Via Mashable)
