Turns out The Bachelors Australia 2023‘s Thomas Malucelli DID film meet and greets with his final two’s families, despite leading viewers to believe they didn’t happen at all.

ICYMI: During the January 25 episode, the Bachies met with their final two gal’s families — alongside their own — to help with their final decision.

While Felix Von Hofe and Jed McIntosh threw themselves into the experience, Thomas claimed he was already at peace with his choice and didn’t need any outside opinions weighing in.

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Turns out Thomas Malucelli DID film meet and greets with his final two’s families, despite leading viewers to believe they didn’t happen at all. Source: Ten

However, So Dramatic! can exclusively reveal that this isn’t true and that his meet and greets were “scrapped” in post-production.

“He met both Leah [Cummings] and Lauren [Whybird]‘s family and friends, and they met his mum and his two best friends,” an insider explained.

“But apparently, it was too boring so they never aired it.” We mean, put it up against a polyamory coup and yeah, we’re sure it was dull AF!

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The source added the production tried to cut corners wherever they could to “speed the season up and squeeze eight weeks into three”.

The Bachelors 2023 contestants were ‘pretty upset’ after learning their family scenes with Thomas Malucelli had been cut

According to the insider, Leah and Lauren weren’t thrilled that their scenes had been shelved to make way for the Jessica Navin and Damien drama.

“Pretty slack to the girls that it wasn’t shown considering their families went to so much effort to be there,” they said.

“They were pretty upset when they saw it had been cut.”

Considering these scenes DID actually take place, it takes the fabricated element of The Bachelors to a new level!

“The producers then made Thomas film that piece-to-camera where he said ‘I am not doing family visits, I’ve already chosen someone’, at a later date so it would make sense,” our source explained.

Ah, the magic of reality TV…

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