Samantha Armytage’s upcoming Channel 9 courting collection The Golden Bachelor has acquired an sudden setback throughout its open casting calls.
The upcoming collection is predicated on a well-liked American present of the identical identify and options folks over 60 seeking to discover their second likelihood at love.
Nonetheless, a Warner Bros casting government has now revealed there was a problem with their casting seek for older folks on the lookout for love.
‘Numerous the candidates don’t know find out how to fill out the applying kind and add photos and movies,’ the insider instructed Yahoo Way of life.
‘Lots don’t even personal an iPhone or pc to do it themselves after listening to concerning the present on the information.’
The supply defined that they needed to make some modifications to the casting course of so as to widen their potential expertise pool.
Samantha Armytage’s upcoming Channel 9 courting collection The Golden Bachelor has acquired an sudden setback throughout its open casting calls
‘Purposes began off gradual however now we have pushed for folks to appoint their grandparents. It is picked up,’ they mentioned.
They added they’d additionally approached retirement properties throughout the nation to see if any senior residents could be up for the very public likelihood at discovering love.
The Golden Bachelor provides folks of their 50s and 60s an opportunity to seek out their second likelihood at love and can premiere on 9 in some unspecified time in the future in 2025.
In November, it was reported The Golden Bachelor has been scouting for contestants in a really uncommon manner.
A expertise scout for the Channel 9 present was noticed handing out enterprise playing cards to attendees at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.
Casting agent Ivanna Tang opted for the weird technique of making an attempt to recruit racegoers to the upcoming spin-off present, in keeping with the Each day Telegraph.
Producers are mentioned to be busy behind the scenes engaged on casting their eligible Bachelor and are hoping to finalise his main position within the coming weeks.
9 secured the rights for The Golden Bachelor in Australia and Samantha has been signed as much as host the truth courting present.
The upcoming collection is predicated on a well-liked American present of the identical identify and options folks over 60 seeking to discover their second likelihood at love
Nonetheless, a Warner Bros casting government has now revealed there was an ‘sudden setback’ of their casting seek for aged folks on the lookout for love
Samantha acquired concerned with the casting name, urging folks to provide their relations a ‘nudge’.
Outgoing Farmer Desires A Spouse host Samantha shocked followers in August when she stepped down from Seven after 21 years, with rumours rife about her subsequent step.
Her new TV gig on The Golden Bachelor was lastly unveiled at 9’s Upfronts in November, the place the community’s schedule of 2025 programming was unveiled to invited friends.
‘I feel you are all going to like this. It is love for the golden ages,’ Samantha mentioned within the video interview with 9Entertainment.
‘After I acquired the decision to hitch the present, I did not hesitate. The Golden Bachelor has been enormous in America, I’ve a sense it is gonna be enormous in Australia, too.’
‘We’re past thrilled to welcome Samantha Armytage to 9 as new host for our quest for love, the Golden Bachelor, the place everybody deserves a second likelihood at love,’ 9’s Chief Advertising Officer Liana Dubois added.
Warner Bros Australia first sparked hypothesis a few native model of the present in November 2023 after they put out a fall for ‘enjoyable, lively, and outgoing male seniors aged 60 or over who’re divorced/widowed’ to participate in a brand new courting collection.
The primary US model of The Golden Bachelor starred father-of-two and widower Gerry Turner, 72, with a Golden Bachelorette model then launching with widow Joan Vassos, 61, seeking to discover love.
The US model of the present has been wildly profitable, with its finale garnering 6.1million viewers, making it essentially the most watched ultimate episode of the American Bachelor collection since 2021.
