The marriage between the first ever Golden Bachelor couple, Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, has ended. We rushed to the mics to debrief in this emergency minisode. Back to Kelce next week. We'll get through this together.

Party Rock is on the pod tonight?! This week, we're joined by LMFAO expert Lauren Guerrera for a discussion of an unexpected high point for Catching Kelce - a trip to the Party Rock Mansion. As Travis himself gets slightly lost between the cracks, we find joy in an impassioned defence of Violet Beauregarde, a meticulously detailed research dossier,…

Beep boop! This week Travis Kelce enters cyberspace, and drags several women into the digital world with him. While some women receive a high-tech kiss, others barely escape with all their bits intact. We consider what lessons Catching Kelce may have learned from GamerGate (if any), bone up on the history of the touchdown dance, and eagerly anticip…

This week, Catching Kelce begins a somewhat awkward transition from its cut-throat beginnings to the more character-focused, relationship-based show it will become. Max intrigues Xavy with tales of butt fumbling, banana baseball, and lingerie football, while Xavy offers thoughts about the Catching Kelce theme song, a discussion of Mop Guys, and a n…

We're back for Catching Kelce episode 2, and joining us in the huddle this week is musician, pop culture journalist and BoH all-star Eilish Gilligan! The personalities and storylines of this season are starting to take shape - we've got an potential frontrunner, we've got a big weird conflict, we've got whatever "BBBs" are. Who better than us three…

The whistle blows, and regular season play begins - in week 1 of Catching Kelce, Travis narrowed down his pool of fifty women to just fifteen in a brutal round of cuts. We analyse the plays made on the first episode to determine which women deserved a touchdown, and which deserved to much-frown (due to not being picked). We're lucky enough to be jo…

Go long! (We sure did). The Bachelor of Hearts podcast is back with a new mini-series, in which we'll be covering the 2016 E! reality series Catching Kelce, which follows Kansas City Chiefs' superstar tight end Travis Kelce's attempt to find love from a pool of 50 women. In this preview episode, we cover the 25-minute preview special, and set the s…

It's time to sit down and have a think about where things are going. On this episode, our second-ever 'State of the Nation' address, we take stock of where the world of The Bachelor AU is right now - hanging a little delicately, perhaps, but not without hope. We suggest some ideas to help the show back on its feet, and pitch some new reality shows …

Well - they did it! Gerry and Theresa's "Golden Wedding", the spon-con-laden, filler-stuffed 2-hour 'live' TV special, went off mostly without a hitch - but did it need to exist? We perform the much-needed audio autopsy to find out.Note - there's a slight audio issue on this episode, please pretend you do not hear it!…

Arriving at exactly the right time, it's our Golden Bachelor finale recap podcast - in which we lovingly detail the nail-biting conclusion to Gerry's quest for love. Gerry's twisted himself up in knots telling multiple women he's in love with them - is there any way for him to stick the landing? Who will he end up having just recently married at th…

We're tackling the last three episodes of this wild season all in one go - so strap down your precariously positioned pot plants, gather up a few stray geese, jot down a few hundred words on a scrap of printer paper, and prepare for the best. Which Bachelors emerge unscathed? Which women were we cheering for? (hint: all of them) And do we really ha…

It's a pivotal pair of episodes as we wriggle closer to finale, with giddy highs (Wesley and Brea breaking format and technically making Bachelor history, a much-needed and well-earned boat date, and an unexpected crossover with Dr. Pimple Popper) as well as undeniable lows (Episode 8). Please send us your mnemonics to help us remember what floor f…

This episode, we're joined once again by wonderful musician, friend, and certified Ben hater Imogen Clark to discuss The Bachelors Australia episodes 6 and 7 - which featured the usual drama about who's receiving flowers, but also new drama about when flowers are being received. Plus a dangle-date conspiracy, another complicated admission (and subs…

Any podcast born after 2015 can't cook... all they know is point out visible boom mic, correct handsome idiot on art history, investigate the acting career of Big Brother Australia 2005 evictee Simon Deering, try and work out the difference between "person" and "human", look up prices of hot chip & lie. We're back with a one-off recap of Episode 5 …

JINGIES! We are so thrilled to welcome back the absolutely crunching Abigail "Big Gail" Harley (The Bachelor[s] Season 10, or, *sigh* 1) back to the pod!! We propose a toast(er) to B.G.'s new squeeze, before diving into a raucous recap of two episodes that began with a love bomb-y love-note, through dates with various degrees of hauntedness, and en…

Welcome quack to the BoH podcast! On this episode, we're diving deep on Episode 2 of The Bachelors Australia S11/2, which contained numerous deep-dives of its own, as well as two ducks, five swans, a pelican, a whirly-bird, and (not quite) a Gosling. We're a partridge short of a carol here, although two of this season's birds will get a peck before…

HELLO! And welcome back to Australia's best and longest-running Bachelor podcast! We're so stoked to be back on deck recapping Season 11 of The Bachelor[s] Australia, unless it's Season 2, the jury's still out. In this episode: Has the Bachelor gone full Bridgerton? Also, what's Bridgerton? Plus, you'll meet all (some?) of the key players from the …

This week on BoH, we're taking a detailed look at the 24 women who'll be entering the fray when the new season of The Bachelors Australia starts this weekend. Xavy puts their official cast bio analysis hat on, and Max sniffs around the dark and dusty alleyways of the internet searching for buried treasure. It's a fully off-leash deep-dive into weir…

This week, we're both back in action for a simply staggering week of Golden Bachelor. It's Fuck Week - the official celebration of permitted primetime porking, which prompts potentially painful pratfalls from the show's pension-eligible patriarch. We bear witness to the first ever Golden 69, find out how birds have sex, and struggle to agree on our…

This week, XRN has been struck down by covid-19, so MQ is handily filling in the gaps, for the traditional not-quite-an-episode of the series: The Women Tell All. There's not All that much for the Women to Tell this time around, as drama has served as a garnish to the other festivities this season. However, we do find out our Final Two, as Gerry su…

This week, it's the greatest crossover event in Bachelor podcasting history, as we're joined by Annemarie Navar-Gill and Carrie Rosen, hosts of Bachelor in Retrospect, to recap Gerry's Hometowns episode. We do our best to unpick the show's cliffhanger ending, and stop down for every granular regional detail along the way. Will Slider get in shape b…

'Twas the week before Hometowns and all through the Mansion, the final 6 hope Gerry will meet their grandson. (Not the best rhyme, I'm sorry). This week, the women present their case for why they deserve to be in the top 3, leading to some incredible gameplay & heart-melting declarations of love. Plus - we discuss some breaking pop-culture news tha…

This EEK, we're joined by author, academic and Bachie AU icon Jodi McAlister for our annual arbitrarily Halloween-themed episode, Dracula of Haunts Laments: Screamer Shudders! Join us for a spirited discussion of The Golden Bachelor's fourth week, which included an exciting pickleball group date, the season's first declaration of love, and visits f…

This week, we're a little distracted by some baby news on Bachelor in Paradise, but we still find time for some research into Joan's hometown, memories of Listen To Your Heart, and the shortest Single Date we've ever seen. Plus, we genuinely enjoy some poetry, marvel at the gentlest dibber-dobbing in franchise history, and learn what a hoo-ha is. (…

This week on BoH: Senior Studies, we're joined by the iconic Bella Johnston (The Bachelor[s] AU Season 10) to recap Week 2 of The Golden Bachelor - which features the women's arrival at the mansion, a toe-tapping Single Date, and a handful of instances of good grief. Bella shares her experiences with mansion life, trauma bonding, crafting perfect B…

This week, we're joined by returning guest Alisha Aitken-Radburn to officially kick off our coverage of the first ever season of The Golden Bachelor! We get the lowdown on Alisha's great new memoirThe Villain Edit, before diving deep into the limo entrances and shock Night 1 farewells of a pretty stunning episode of television. Plus - we practice o…

Bachelor of Hearts Presents: Senior Studies is finally here! In this series, we'll be looking at the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor as it airs in the US - a series which marks the first time in Bachelor history that a cast has been exclusively made up of people aged 60 years and over. In advance of the first episode, we put our Professiona…

The BoH babys are BACK with a brand-new episode covering a scattershot grab-bag of extremely important topics! First of all, we're officially announcing that we will be covering The Golden Bachelor when it begins airing in the US at the end of September. We also detail some BoH-adjacent books and music we've been enjoying, dig into a red-hot cremat…

Well, it's certainly a choice (again). This episode features our initial reactions to the announcement that Season 11 of The Bachelor Australia will again feature three leads: Wesley Senna Cortes, Ben Waddell, and Luke Bateman. XRN is going in cold (well, actually, going in 'stomach virus'), but MQ has prepared a detailed dossier on the three new B…

What's up bug dicks! The FBoy Island gods have blessed us with a combination Fuck Week and Finale Week, so we dig in to all the action, including a twist ending that served as another huge highlight of the season. Plus - what's going on with Cory? Which ex-Bachelor was caught up in a gangland shooting this week? And has a DJ ever had sex?…

This week, we grapple with how the show recovered from a staggering cliffhanger, as the men's true natures (or at least their declared plans for the prize money) have become a matter of public record. Plus - a spirited discussion about kink, a flat-out disagreement about the respective A-Boy and F-Boy of the week, and flowers for Gold Logie nominee…

This week, we tackle the biggest Australian Reality TV Cliffhanger in YEARS, and go All In on predicting who (and who isn’t!) an FBoy. Plus, do any of these men have talent? Can you win over your crush just by holding out chicken nuggets in front of them? And what should we make of Vernon’s Big Reveal? Join us @bohpod on social media to continue th…

This week, we're back discussing FBOY Island Australia, and even though it's only week 2, we've already seen several game-breakingly unexpected events that require our analysis. What happens when a Nice Guy is cast away and then resurrected? And just what is an "intruder" when it comes to reality TV? All this plus our awards for F Boy of the week, …

This week, we kick off our coverage of the brand-new series, FBOY Island Australia! We rank some of our first impressions from A to F-Boy, we discuss "Bros Before Hoes" and the gray area between F-Boy and Nice Guy, and we pick our "boygenius" smartest moves of the week. Plus, Max shares highlights from Abbie Chatfield's Trauma Dump show, Leah Cummi…

In this extra-length episode, we report on three rumoured leads for the now-confirmed Bachelor AU S11, touch base about MILF Manor, and make an important announcement about what we'll be covering on the podcast next. But the meat of this episode comes when we decide to create the perfect application for The Bachelor. We go step-by-step through the …

In this episode of Bachelor of Hearts, we're keeping the feed warm with a couple of updates and a leisurely stroll through the exhaustive and complete* list of every movie Max Quinn has ever seen. Plus, The Bachelors casting news, an exciting promotional opportunity for BoH in the USA, and a chance run-in with an ursid under the influence. Find the…

On this very special episode of Bachelor of Hearts, we're joined by the one and only Abigail from Season 10 of The Bachelor[s] AU! She runs us through how her mum found out she was on the show, details what the past few months since shooting have been like, and of course gives us a much-needed Minnie update, before we walk her through the entire tr…

Another MAFS check-in with BoH Correspondent Max Quinn. In this episode: What should Caitlin do about Shannon? And why is the entire internet on Team Josh? Plus, Max weighs in on Harrison, Lyndal, Cameron and Claire.By Max Quinn & Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Who won and who lost during the first Married At First Sight Dinner Party of Season 10? BoH co-host Max Quinn reacts live after the episode. Hot takes within on: Harrison, Bronte and Melinda Can Jesse be redeemed? Melissa's root rat edit Josh's Disney obsession ... what is Cumbo?By Max Quinn & Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

BoH Camp Counsellor Max Quinn is back reacting to another episode of Married At First Sight Season 10 - this time Episode 4. In this episode: what on earth is going on with misogynist metal manbun Jesse? Plus, if a man says This One Particular Phrase to you? Run babes.By Max Quinn & Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

What is this? A (potentially!) new Married At First Sight mini-recap series on the BoH podcast feed.Intrepid ingenue of interpersonal issues Max Quinn takes the reins for this solo pod recapping MAFS Australia: Season 10, Episode 1.By Max Quinn & Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Well, I don't know what we expected. On this episode, we recap a suitably bugnuts finale to match a completely chaotic season of television. This episode featured some of the strangest and most memorable moments of any Bachelor season we can remember - from Thomas' abrupt final dismissal, to the first ever accepted proposal on an Australian Bachelo…

We're at the very tail end of 'Finals Week', and in a move that definitely has nothing to do with budget restraints, the show has decided to combine Hometowns with the Meet The Parents (as well as a drop-in from the dreaded Fourth Bachelor) into one great big calamitous clusterfuck. We sat down to record right after Episode 11 aired to figure out h…

In another gut-reaction podcast recorded straight after the 9th episode of The Bachelors, we remain remarkably on track and tangent-free as we go deep on Jed's songwriting process, Felix's narrative of personal growth, the mishandling of several key participants' storylines this season. We do make some brief stops along the way to discuss our kebab…

We're back back back again, and on this episode we’re doing our best to wrap our heads around the central polyamory storyline between Jess, Felix and the now-just-fully-on-the-show-I-guess Damien. Plus, we compare Tilly's characterisation to that of Abbie Chatfield on Matt Agnew's season, and we analyse the "growth" that Thomas is looking for in hi…

They've bloody gone and done it. They've put four episodes of The Bachelors out in a row. With a steadily rising current of Bachelor content lapping at our feet, we're up Bach creek without a paddle, and forced to try and recap the show on the fly. We discuss the fallout from Tash's brief reign as the show's villain, Felix's continuing acts of mout…

Swings and rollercoasters take centre stage on a stomach-churning episode of The Bachelors, predicated on Drama At All Costs - as Tash reveals Jess' non-monogamous relationship as well as Jasmine's activity on OnlyFans, the mansion is sent into a loop-de-loop. Is that how you spell that? Get in line for an episode where we pull apart the complex so…

Season 10 of The Bachelor AU marches on, and it's another episode that's quite different to what we've been led to expect: Group Dates have been revamped, we're visiting the Bachelors' brand-new penthouse Bach Pad, and there's an interesting triptych structure to help us follow the action. We discuss the way the show is allowing the Bachelors to be…

It's finally time - the long-awaited tenth season of The Bachelor has emerged from its extended primordial slumber, and we are here to pull apart all the juicy details of the very first episode. Luck (and our wonderful community) placed the first two episodes into our eagerly outstretched hands a little early, which means we've had ample time to ch…

This week, on our last episode of Bachelor of Hearts Presents: ScholarShip, we're discussing the final two weeks of The Real Love Boat AU, and as we draw towards the end, the boat show has changed its flavour quite dramatically, and we're still deciding whether or not we're on board. We revisit the way the show has dealt with its story threads, inc…