EXCLUSIVE: The Bachelor’s Locky Gilbert is busted with Married At First Sight’s Aleks Markovic during a break from filming after coronavirus forced Channel 10 to halt production
Things have gone from bad to worse for this year’s season of The Bachelor.
After COVID-19 shut down production in March, it looks like Locklan ‘Locky’ Gilbert may find himself a girlfriend on his own before filming eventually resumes.
Since returning home to Perth, the 30-year-old Australian Survivor star has been spending time with Married At First Sight‘s Aleks Markovic.
Found a match? Locky Gilbert (left) has been spending time with Married At First Sight’s Aleks Markovic (right) in Perth after production on The Bachelor was suspended due to COVID-19
The pair apparently met through mutual friends and have been socialising.
Locky accidentally appeared in the background of Aleks’ Instagram Live interview with boxer and socialite Kyron Dryden on Saturday.
He quickly stepped out of the frame before anyone could take a screenshot, but several confused fans asked: ‘Wasn’t that the Bachelor?’
Locky also recently followed the 27-year-old real estate agent on Instagram.
Whoops! Locky accidentally appeared in the background of Aleks’ Instagram Live on Saturday – but managed to step away before anybody could take a screenshot
‘He’s a friend of a friend’: When approached for comment on Wednesday, Aleks denied there was anything romantic going on between them. She added that Locky was a ‘super nice guy’
When approached for comment on Wednesday, Aleks denied there was anything romantic going on between them.
‘I was with Locky on Saturday night. He’s a friend of a friend, super nice guy,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
She also confirmed he had been with her when she filmed her Instagram Live at a friend’s house over the weekend.
Channel 10 and Locky Gilbert declined to comment.
Halted: Production on The Bachelor in Oxford Falls, Sydney, was shut down in late March because of the COVID-19 pandemic and is yet to resume. Pictured: Locky filming a date with contestant Bella Varelis on Monday, March 9
Production on The Bachelor in Oxford Falls, Sydney, was shut down in late March because of the COVID-19 pandemic and is yet to resume.
Channel 10’s head of entertainment, Stephen Tate, said at the time that Locky would continue to have ‘virtual dates’ with the women in lockdown.
‘We’ve got a good amount of the series in the can, we’re about a third of the way in, which buys us a lot of time,’ Mr Tate told The Kyle and Jackie O Show on March 27.
What’s happening? Channel 10’s head of entertainment, Stephen Tate, said at the time that Locky would continue to have ‘virtual dates’ with the women in lockdown. Pictured on March 9
‘We’re going to embrace what’s happening… It will form part of the story, and we think we’ll be able to deliver probably the most extraordinary series ever.’
However, host Osher Günsberg has since admitted that the future of Locky’s season is now looking uncertain, with nobody knowing for sure what is going to happen.
He said on the Shameless podcast on Thursday: ‘We are on hiatus. I don’t know what’s going to happen… and I don’t think they [the producers] do either.’
‘I don’t know what’s going to happen’: Osher Günsberg has since revealed the future of Locky’s season is now looking uncertain, with nobody knowing for sure what is going to happen