The Biggest Sign Brooke Could Be This Year’s Bachy Runner-up

The Bachelor concludes tonight with Jimmy Nicholson making his final choice between Brooke Cleal and Holly Kingston.

The promo for the finale has teased the classic drama and it looks like even Jimmy’s family is torn on who the pilot (did you know he’s a pilot? Has that been mentioned enough?) will choose in the end.

On one hand, there’s Holly who looks as though she’d slip effortlessly into Jimmy’s Northern Beaches lifestyle. You can already see them with two perfect-looking kids down the track with very straight teeth. Jimmy and Holly may have been a slower burn, but she did captivate him from the first cocktail party with her wine bar idea and they have spent a lot of time making out since then.

Then there’s Brooke, who left the mansion after her grandfather’s death before returning with a confident new attitude to win Jimmy’s heart. Despite the fact she’s not always saying what Jimmy wants to hear, he seems totally smitten with her and last night she told him she felt like they were “boyfriend and girlfriend” in a steamy pool scene.

Which leads me to the point of this article: what do hot and heavy steamy pool scenes and The Bachelor have in common?

THEY ALWAYS* FEATURE THE RUNNER-UP.

(*OK, look, it’s happened enough times that we can call it a pattern.)

Don’t believe me? Let’s look at some classic cases.

The Bachelors love taking their runner-up on a horny pool tour. Let’s trawl through the evidence.

Sam Wood & Lana

I remember watching Sam Wood’s season and there was no doubt in my mind that Snezana was going to win – until this full-on pool scene with Lana in the finale episode. It was so horny, I actually started to reconsider Sam’s choice. It needed a M15+ rating, my virgin eyes were horrified!

But Lana came, she saw, she conquered in the pool, and she was dumped at the end.

Georgia Love & Matty J

Georgia Love came out last year and clarified that it was just VERY COLD that night when filming this scene, but still, our eyes don’t deceive us. Matty J dropped the L-bomb to Georgia in the pool, the place where so many runner-ups love to drop those three little words.

Matt Agnew & Abbie Chatfield

On Abbie’s hometown visit, Matt and Abbie got to know each other very well in the pool. It was a pool scene so hot that the chemistry nearly set our TV screens on fire. Where did Abbie place? Runner-up, of course.

Locky Gilbert & Bella Varelis

Bella also became victim of dropping the L-bomb in a pool, except Locky of course said it back. Like a normal dude. Who wasn’t going to pick her in the end. Yikes.

Special shoutout: Honey Badger had a very steamy pool scene with Sophie towards the end of his journey as the Bachelor, but does it count if everyone in his series was a runner-up and there were no winners? Sophie did technically get dumped first before Britt which kinda makes her the first runner-up… but the jury is still out.

This brings us to: in last night’s final dates before the finale, Brooke got the horny pool scene.

She didn’t drop the L-bomb in the pool but she did drop that she felt like they were “boyfriend and girlfriend” which is the Year 7 way of saying “I love you”.

Me to the boy I messaged on MSN after school for four consecutive days. #TheBachelorAU pic.twitter.com/NmCW9Aw4Kf

— PUNKEE (@itspunkee) September 1, 2021

Does this mean Brooke will be Jimmy’s horny pool session runner-up?

Based on this investigation: who tf knows!

But betting sites have Holly in the lead to win and look, they’re rarely wrong.

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Tune in to The Bachelor tonight to watch Jimmy’s final decision at 7:30pm on Channel 10.